Good Evening Taylor,

The new job is eating up more time that Ragdoll and I realized, so we haven’t done too too much.

I’m still working on my book for last month, and am almost done. I need to get moving on it so I can start this month’s book. It’s a really lovely kids book and my next book, which is part of a book club, looks like it might be a lot darker. I’ll give it a read, but if the books are too dark I will probably go back to reading lighter more fun books.

I did a hike this weekend, too, and it was a rough one. Not that it was too hard to walk or I got tired, but all the trails were really overgrown. I saw a lot of salmon berries but it was mostly just a lot of brambles and overgrown bushes and just barely enough trail to walk. It was worth it, though, becuase at one point, you get on an old railroad track and walk that for a while. You can still see the tracks and the wooden ties And at one point, there’s an old old gigantic wooden bridge that you can’t walk on, but you can walk around and under and it’s huge. I didn’t think they were so big! And then I came out at a rover, and it was big and wide and I remembered why I came out. To see the real world. And the real world is beautiful.

I had some Mediterranean food I’d looked at last time I was hiking, and I liked it better than what I had last hike. I didn’t know what to order so I just guessed and it’s really really tasty. The real world is also tasty.

Outside of that, I haven’t really done much. I got to see the mountain from the roof of a building, but the whole situation around that was hard to navigate. Ragdoll promised me, though, I’ll see the mountain up close soon. The hiker in me wants to climb it. 🙂

The crows are becoming more and more friendly. They were keeping their distance for a while, and I thought I might have scared them off, but today, for breakfast, one went to the roof and watched me eat while the other took his peanut and flew off. The other came by after I left. But for lunch things changed.

They didn’t just fly to the roof…both of them did. And they cawwed to each other while watching me. I gave them a peanut, and one flew to get it, took it to the lawn, and then cawwed to the other once. That one came to the fence and got his peanut, and then also flew to the ground and ate it. Then they cawwed at each other a lot. I think they were talking about me, because they stayed around and hung out while I finished lunch. After I left, they flew away.

I think I’m making some friends!

I want to be careful about overfeeding them, though. Just two peanuts at breakfast, and two at lunch when I’m home for it. No more, because I don’t want them to bring friends.

Maybe babies, but no friends.

Mornings are my favorite time now. Just me, breakfast, coffee, and the sounds of brids waking up and tweeting. Sometimes a car, yeah, but mostly just the birds. I have the slow life you always told me I should enjoy.

It’s getting late, and I need to get Ragdoll ready for work tomorrow. I hope you and Didi are well.

–Andrea