Today I woke up coughing, and Travalon said, "Do you really have to go in?" but I knew one coworker was working from home because of carpeting installation, another has a small child and all the uncertainty around that, and the third often calls in sick, and my boss is on vacation, so I figured I'd better be there... and there would be nobody around to cough on anyway. But of course they were ALL there (except my boss) because the carpet installation got delayed. I did walk with my colleague at lunch, and from now on I'm going to call her Petrel because that's what her name means. I didn't have time to ask Hardingfele, and since I still have this cold, she probably wouldn't have wanted to go anyway, although Petrel said I sounded a lot better than on Monday.
I finally got around to drawing my own blog monster:
Travalon and I both thought this could be Patches the Blog Monster, though I suppose an argument could be made for Tootles. Notice the Packer wheels. Meanwhile, at work today Travalon was watching a big tie-dyed peace bear smoosh a tiny Gumby. Or whatever that is under its paw.
When we got home, I saw a pink patch in the clouds.
And I found a rock with a big smile.
This is the "before" picture. I have teeny googly eyes to put on it, but we couldn't find any glue, so watch for an "after" picture soon.
We went down to the dock to see what was around. Of course Tux Duck was around. He is actually called a bibbed mallard, which is apparently a hybrid of a mallard and a domestic duck.
We also saw this mallard who lives in the neighborhood as well; his head seems more blue than green.
A couple more photos of Tux Duck.
Then we went to Cherokee Marsh, but at first we didn't see the pelicans. They weren't as close as on Sunday, but finally we did see them all hanging around the nameless island, so Travalon said we should call it Pelican Island.
Here are zoomed-in photos of them. You can see how much bigger than the geese they are.
In this photo, you can see some northern shovelers in the foreground.
Jilly Moose is already looking ahead to the next presidential election, and she made a poster for her moose Chambord. I had to figure out how to download it, and then find where it saved to, but I got it now.
I don't know how Chambord feels about either DEI hires or the DUI hires Dear Leader favors. I could go on and on about how the same people who never shut up about Hillary's emails now say the current group text fiasco is not a scandal, but they have no shame, so charges of hypocrisy don't even faze them. All I can say is that I'm very happy for the people I know who voted for Dear Leader that they were able to elect someone who agrees with their standards of morality, decency, and honor. Just know that if I leave the country, I'm not telling any of y'all where I'm going.
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