Has it rained enough yet?

Wah! - I had to miss Fic Rush. :-P Hope I can catch the next one - sounds like much fun was had by all.

The rain seems to be neverending here, though I suppose that IS par for the course for winter. Splorped out among the poplars in the deluge to clean up a large dead poplar branch that the wind brought down across the driveway - I wonder if my rather deep bootprints in the mud will still show up when it all dries up in the summer. Snowdrops are blooming! My crocuses are starting to show color! *bounces in anticipation of early flowers*

Also a parakeet victory - Been gradually moving the two birdcages closer together over the past month until they were snugged right up side-by-side and within a couple days the birds were spending all their time sitting right next to each other, trying to reach through the bars (awww) so yesterday was the Grand Reveal - I set them up with open doors so they could go from one cage to the other if they so desired.

By noon, I had all three of them happily sitting together in Sherbet's cage - and now Freckles and Millie won't go back to their old cage, they seem to have Officially Moved In with Sherbet. Maybe she just has better toys. ;-) So nice to have them all happy and only one cage to clean each day instead of two - Yay for non-lonely budgies!

Ruthless rummaging in the music o' youth

In my ongoing attempts to clean out 'stuff' we aren't using, I tackled two large drawers stuffed with audio cassette tapes that we had from mine and the mister's youthfuller days. Tried to be ruthless, which is difficult when sidetracked by "Wow! I remember when I first got this tape back when I was in high school..." type bursts from the past.

Filled a grocery bag halfway with tapes to toss into an upcoming rummage sale (go me!). Made a stack of tapes we decided we really *would* like to listen to again and then plugged a small stack of money into ordering those albums on cd before adding them to their tapey brethren in the bag. Reluctantly pried out of my parentally nostalgic fingers a lot of kiddie tapes (Awww, remember when (insert child's name who is now a teenager) used to sing along with this when she was a toddler....?), etc.

Gads. Did I really used to listen to Barry Manilow? Scott Wesley Brown? Oooold Manhatten Transfer? Guess my tastes have changed. I *did* order a cheap cd of 'world's greatest polkas' and got rid of the polka tapes I got from my grandma, heh... guess if a polka breaks out, we can supply the music, heaven forbid my grandmother's granddaughter would not have at least one polka album in her collection. ;-)

And why is there STILL an entire drawer full? >_< Not fair.