sun bath

We have finally gone past chilly weather to summer. Our cat, Missy, loves to sunbathe near the porch door. No one knows her full history but she has a little bit of one ear that appears to have been lost to freezing weather at some time so she fully appreciates the warm sun.
We are happy about it too! We are both having a series of physical therapy sessions at our fine Peak Performance area of our hospital. We both hope to improve our leg strength and our stability as we both feel a bit tottery some of the time. We are looking forward to a concert by several of our Bemidji State Music faculty members on Friday night. They are doing it as a fund raiser for the University of Iowa that suffered such severe damage in the floods. Their fine music school was attended by a number of folks on staff here for their undergraduate or graduate studies. On Sunday our church choir will sing as it does on the last Sunday of the month in the summer. Linda is away so I will be directing which I always enjoy. We hope the sun is shining on you and your cat or dog or kid or just you wherever you are. Love, Alice and Wag

Visitor

This is what we saw when we looked out on our deck last evening. This big dude knocked down the bird feeders, ate seed and worked hard to suck the suet out of the metal bracket feeders. We later learned he had done the same at a neighbor's house as well. We knew there are bears in our woods and we have seen a few at times but having him come right up on our deck when it was still dalight was quite a sight and the cat nearly had apoplexy.

I guess spring is here. We just hope we aren't going to be a regular stop on his feeding route. Cheers from the north woods, Alice and Wag

Bear