John Has a Cold

Our boy came down with quite a cold by the end of Saturday, so he and I stayed home today. He was pretty miserable all day, which made Mama tired. I was grateful that John was able to break out of his general malaise and irritability to play happily sometimes.






By the late afternoon, John and I were going stir crazy, so I slathered him in sunscreen, put a sunhat on his head, and walked him around the block. As usual, this caused him to be quiet, for which I was very grateful.



Wildlife update: We have a new bird egg! When our bushes were being pruned yesterday, Chris noticed that the towhees' nest has a new egg in it. I read that towhee babies only remain in the nest 10-12 days, so perhaps the baby birds really did fly away. Or did a marauder bird kill the baby birds and take over the nest, laying its own egg? Chris says the egg is blue and I don't think towhee eggs are blue. I'm so worried that I scared off the birds the first time that I haven't even gone to the bush to view the new egg.