At the COPA!
COPACABANA!
The hottest spot north of Havana!

Wheeeeeeee!

Yes, I am a nutcase. I just love that song.
I think I scared Bree half to death with my dramatic interpretive dance of it at Pleasure Island.
Hee.

So- what's new today?
Farmer's Market today. Plums from California, apples, and red potatoes with things growing out of their EYES! EEEEEEK!! We dug through the pile until some non-growing potatoes were located and bagged.

It is VERY humid 'round here (like every day, pretty much, +sigh+).

Bald Cardinals have been sighted in the backyard this past week or so. I checked with several websites, including the Cornell University site and Hilton Pond, and they say that this is unusual, but not unexpected with Cardinals at this time of year. No conclusion has been reached as to WHY the poor things are going around like their near-relatives, the lizards, but the two leading theories are:

1) Mites on the one area they can't preen themselves (top o'the head)
and/or
2) Genetic predisposition to all-at-once-molting instead of usual gradual feather-by-feather molt.

More conversation on this topic here and here, too.

Now, I know why scavenger birds like vultures have featherless heads and necks- it is due to the lovely carrion that they consume. Not having material for the bacteria to grow on is a definite plus when it comes to the health of the birds.

But it's got to be disturbing to the rest of the flock when some of the cardinals begin losing their glorious crests.

 
Also-- FINALLY read The Fellowship of the Ring without falling asleep in the opening histories. It's a new edition; hardback, larger type, illustrations by Alan Lee. (Search under ISBN number 061826051X- it has a cover illustration of the halls of Moria.)

Dragon*Con approacheth. I am not financially able to attend this year... even though the one and only Peter Davison will be there!!!!! ACK! Campion! Albert freaking Campion!

/runs about in circles briefly, finally settling down at the keyboard again

Hem.

AND the DISH of the DAY in Hitch-Hiker's!!!!!!!!!

OK, OK, I'm going now. Enough +CROAK+ing for now.