#Summer Lockdown…life goes on and on
July 8 2020
- I pass this European Coot mother on her nest every day….she’s like a Spinx, never flinching…but today she revealed her secret! Foto: 05:51 hr.
- Have you ever been this close to a Coot?
I can see mother’s watchful eye….and the cootling having one of his first ‘bad hair’ days! - Compare the cootling’s head with its mother’s head! His beak and head feathers are ……so different! As he grows he will have a nice chic black buzz haircut and prominent white beak. #MotherNature
I think this is the foto of the day…family coot taking the young whippersnapper out for a morning swim. Just look at the reflection in the water….#PerfectSymmetry #NeedCoffee
July 8 2020
- Chocolate Vanilla – Coconut Rum Cream parfait (..puddng home-made)
- ….do you believe it….today NOT ON A DIET !
Feels strange…not doing my daily walk but sometimes you have to give yourself a day off! Cooking….that is what I did and this one is a ‘keeper’ : Pasta with Burst Cherry Tomatoes pancetta, garlic, ricotta cheese and fresh mint. I made half the recipe and the rest goes in the freezer. I had to restrain myself NOT to have a second helping instead I had a nice glass of wine…my first in 3 months!
What’s on your menu tonight? Get creative…get into the kitchen!
July 9 2020
2,5 km – done
Took the short route today….too wet and windy.
Well, it’s beautiful weather if you are a coot. I met this lady….and she was not complaining! #NeedCoffee and a good book to read in the my green chair.
Book: The Room Where It Happened
Finished: 09.07.2020 “The Room Where It Happened”
Genre: non-fiction
Rating: F
Author: John Bolton
Conclusion: short review…
I have read John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened.
It is like pulling teeth…difficult, tiresome and tedious.
The book was too ‘detailed’ for the average reader:
dates, time of day, and number of minutes for every meeting,
every conversation, page after page.
Is this the book Trump wanted to stop selling?
If you have kept up on the news….
Bolton revealed nothing ‘earth shattering’
….that hasn’t been leaked per-publication.
Trump should worry about his niece’s book
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump.
The New York Times said,
“…the memoir was ‘bloated’ with self-importance,
even though what it mostly recounts is Bolton
not being able to accomplish very much”.
I rest my case.
#WasteOfReadingTime
July 10 2020
Busy planning my 2020 Fall Pandemic TV line-up on Netflix!
Where a mask to make sure you’ll be alive on Nov 3rd #COVID19
July 11 2020
5,6 km – done
After a few days of rain and sleeping in …it was a shock to wake up at 04:15 hr this morning. Surprised to see many cars and even 2 people on bikes roaming around at 04:30 hr (start walk).
Here is the sunrise I have been waiting days to see. If I look at that burst of light….I expect to hear the voice of God! #BiblicalScene Foto 05:39 hr
First rule when photographing the sunrise…look behind you! Blue creek with some ‘cauliflower’ clouds. Foto: 06:05 hr
In a matter of seconds….I looked up and lo’ and behold….my first rainbow during morning walks! Foto: 06:15 hr
This is a Bean goose with bright orange beak standing on one leg. Why do birds stand on one leg?
Hint: Same reason you put your hands in your pockets when it’s cold! Because the veins also cool the arteries, the bird’s feet are closer to environmental temperature and thus don’t lose as much heat as they would if they were at body temperature. And by standing on one leg, a bird reduces by half the amount of heat lost through un-feathered limbs. Foto: 06:33 hr #NeedCoffee…..time to walk back home!
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Lovely post. Especially the photos of the coots.
…walking and taking fotos of nature is my salvation during this lockdown.
Reading? I can hardly keep up with the daily news….and books seem to end up
at the bottom of my ‘to-do’ list. How are you doing in California….these days?
That’s so awesome you got to see the baby coot! Thanks for the break down of the Bolton book. I didn’t want to bother with it if there was nothing earth-shattering new and it sounds like there is not.
The pasta dish and pudding look amazing! I am trying a “summer corn chowder” recipe in the crockpot. It smells AWFUL so I hope it’s edible. LOL
I love your sunsets and sunrises, but now I’m in love with your coots!
How lucky you were to see bub.
After getting through the April/May lockdown so well, Victoria and NSW are back in the grip of increasing community covid cases. Victoria is back in level 3 lockdown and we in NSW are holding our breath.
Love your pasts dish too – always looking for tasty, easy, healthy meals for the family.
Thanks for stopping by….reading when the spirit moves me
…walking and photographing daily
…catching up on many magazines (The New Yorker) that I have
…here next to me in a bige TBR pile!
Pasta dish?…I made it and divided into 300 gr portions….in the freezer
and it is a perfect quick dish for dinner + a salad!
Sorry I’ve been AWOL lately Nancy. Pleased to see you are hanging in there. I do enjoy these journals.
…I should post a new journal….I’ve just been so pre-occupied with the news in USA and now yesterday’s explosion in Beirut Lebanon! The images….this was the power of 1/5 Hiroshima bomb….that was dorpped 75 years ago tomorrow! Can you imagine the devestation of the Hiroshima bomb?
Yes. It’s horrendous isn’t it?