Overwintering

This is the first year a heron has visited the pond all winter. I don't know if they sometimes overwinter here but have never seen one here at my pond at this time of year. I never get a photo because I don't see it until I open the door and it flies off.

I'm missing a women's festival wrap up tonight because of impending weather. We're supposed to get 5 to 10 cm. and it's blowing snow. No thanks for driving back home in that. Too bad though because we always have a marvelous time together.

Music is for that group of women tonight. Ragged Company by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Arenita Azul by the always wonderful Lila Downs. The last one is for the dancing we like to do when we're together.

My playlists eventually came back on Windows Media player but only after restarting. It's an all new interface and a pain. I wish I'd realized that was going to happen. I wouldn't have changed to the new version.

Blue Skies

Still trying to get all my music onto disc. I'm up to the I's and just finished Irma Thomas. I think I probably should have an external hard drive instead of all this work. I need a computer friend to manage that however, so for now it's burn and burn.

No walk today. A brisk north wind and temperatures of 2 Celcius will keep walkers and runners in unless they're super dedicated, which I am not.

The new beta Blogger is working out rather well other than the complicated signing in sessions that have to be used EACH TIME you want to blog. As a whole it seems to be quicker for uploading the photo and for final publishing.

A piece of news on the radio all day is a woman warning everyone to store potting soil outdoors because it can catch fire spontaneously. The fire marshall agrees and says it is because of the fertilizer in potting soil. I have some indoors so will be moving it out to the barn at least. Interesting!

Music today: Word of the passing of old blues singer, Ruth Brown. Here she is in Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean. One burned today is Grace Potter and the Nocturnal's live version of Skinny Woman.

For a link here are two pages featuring artist's Rene Magritte and Willem de Kooning.

Magical, Magical

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What a day....and it's going to get warmer for Thursday and Friday. The normal daytime temp for this time of year is 3 or 4 degrees and it was 18 degrees this afternoon. I managed to get two walks in today, the second one being to the beach. It is such a magical place to be. I took my shoes off, rolled up my pants, and waded a bit. The ground was cold but the water wasn't bad.

Blogger Beta is giving me problems as I somehow knew it would. I can only get in through my e-mail, not the normal way. I so need a geeky friend.

We were a mixed team of part MacADNski, part Victoria Bar Clams and Chris, a friend who really doesn't have a team and plays on different ones every week. We came third, with the Brain Waves coming first after a perfect second round.

One musical selection today is the funky, Nothing But the Water by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. I'm not sure how to categorize the second choice, Afternoon Delight by the Starlight Vocal Band. I know this afternoon at the beach was an afternoon delight and that's why I've chosen the song. I could never be a music blogger.

Speaking of music bloggers........ I visit about forty music blogs a week and I visit two daily. This is one of them, Keep the Coffee Coming.