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May 21, 2020 7:14 AM CST
Name: Sally
Nichols, iowa (Zone 5a)
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57°/65°/57°
A slight chance of drizzle before 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 65. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Jim
I saw a couple of toads yesterday. I'm so glad. Quite a few years back, they were hard to find.
Wow! She's home? That's good tho!

Rj
Smiling. It's amazing the shade of color toads are. I've seen dark and light ones.
Wow! I have only had a few bee stings as a kid, a few sweat bees, and a couple of wasps as an adult, but never a bumblebee. How bad was it?

Thomas,
Sorry for the dizziness. I've had vertigo once. Came on all of a sudden while I was sitting. I made it back to my bed, scooted down on my stomach so my head was over the bed. I turned it to the left and right, then got back to my pillow and went to sleep. When I woke up, it was gone. It hasn't happened since. I hated it!

Dave
Not to scoff at your muscles, but LOL LOL LOL!

Seil
It's good to hear no flooding for you, but how sad for everyone else.

Lazy day so far. The grass grew about two days more than it should have and wouldn't dry out yesterday. I got it mowed, but I have officially retired as of yesterday. I was hot and tired when I got done. Told him he could get a rider. He's going to push. We'll see how long that lasts, lol! I've been mowing for at least the last 15 years. It's lost its zen.

Story Time:

June 30, 2019

Yesterday, I didn't know my goose story was going to have an ending. Much less, one as profound.

Audrey Johnson. You couldn't know, but when you said, ''Well just tell him !!!,'' in response to my answer, you were on the right track.

And Kurt Wagner. Yesterday, your picture was funny. I'm re-using it because it means something completely different now.

I am,

Blown Away

This morning, when I walked by the field, my goose didn't honk.

Instead, he lifted up out of the grass.

As I stopped to watch, he made a wide circle towards the south. Then he came around and flew right in front of me. Eye level and close.

He circled and flew past me again. When I started walking, he was flying off to the south and he didn't come back.

He said what he had to say.

It was deeply moving and personal. It wasn't Dad saying goodbye. But it was, an answer to some things I had been wrestling with right before it happened.

It brought me to tears, it wrung me out, and it left me with a profoundly satisfying feeling that I can't describe.

Again, I can't opload an image.
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