You gotta love software. Today, posting my blog took forever. But then, apparently, it got posted three or four times, so I suppose it was worth it..

Another beautiful, windless, totally sunny day. To Mindemoya for breakfast at Mum's and then errands. This evening down to the lower deck for calm and quiet, only to find calm and quiet destroyed by half a dozen gulls having noisy issues. But, when the sandhill cranes chimed in that was okay. And, eventually, calm was restored. Of most interest was the small flock of water birds, quite, a way out in the bay, who were making the what I thought were interesting sounds— a fairly high pitched "woof; woof, woof, woof—sounding very much like a pack of puppies. I would like to know what these birds are.

Also, speaking of sound, we have heard several outlier tree frogs tuning up ( but, of course as yet no deafening chorus). AND, just this evening the "mweep" bird—the flycatcher— indicated that back. Welcome home, little bird.

While on the lower deck we watched a large ice floe flow slowly through the channel, glistening in the sunlight as it inched somewhere. Just think, a north wind might have brought it here.