Thursday This, That and Tents

 

The predicted day-long snow storm has just begun.

It looks like serious, flakey business out my window.

So, we may be doing some shoveling or maybe even plowing later in the day.

For now, it's okay because yesterday was SO beautiful with definite hints of spring, especially with the bird noise, which has intensified around here over the past two weeks. 

Hard not to notice when all those crows come back and offer their various voices from the woods, from numerous treetops, around the yard and at the next-door neighbors.  

Seems they seldom shut up. 

Their only real competition comes when the geese fly over, announcing whatever it is they have to say about flying from one pond to another. 

While birds were singing, flying overhead in the blue sky or grabbing sunflower seeds from feeders and the ground, Liam was licking. 

Liam has three distinct licking spots around the place---at the far shed, just up the lane from the barn, in the small water tank and at the entrance to the south woods.

Licking gives him a break from running the barnyard fence hundreds of times a day. 

A Border Collie's gotta keep busy even when he needs a break, so licking does it for Liam as he can lie down, rest most of his body and just put that well-trained and talented tongue into motion.

While Liam licks, Foster hangs out in the barn, stretching his neck and crying while Sunny sits atop the hay stack looking down at him with an air of feline superiority.  

It's an addiction for Foster to look longingly up there at his kitty friend, wishing she would just come down to play.  I have a feeling, though, that Sunny knows that Foster's idea of coming down to play may differ from hers so she just keeps taunting him from above. 

It keeps Foster busy for hours on end. 

Anywho, it was an enjoyable day around the place yesterday, just enjoying the pleasant weather and moseying around feeling grateful to live where we live. 

Today, we're grateful that it's GAME DAY.  The ZAGS play at 4 p.m. today.

While out shoveling in the barn this morning, I heard the guys on Coyote Country talking about today's double header in the Kennel. 

Kevin of the Jay and Kevin Show also does the announcing in the Kennel during games.  He said the men will play and then they'll clear the gym for the women.  

Jay said, "That won't take long!"  And, Jay is correct.  It won't take long for 200 people to go out and another 200 people, mostly parents, to come in for the women's game. 

Just two more WCC season games tonight and Saturday night for the ZAGS.  And, then the tournament begins in Las Vegas. 

Hard to believe this great season has zipped by so fast. 

I'm thinking the ZAGS could add a little spice to their senior night on Saturday by calling up the Wenatchee, Wash., and asking the band to come over and play.

Seems like a perfectly safe thing to do, considering the precautions the band members take, as you'll see below. 

Necessity is truly the mother of novel inventions. 

 

Where there's a will, there's a way . . . .

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/coronavirus/washington-school-band-pop-up-tents/

View the game on CBS Sports at 4 p.m.

Thursday Throwbacks . . . . as usual, some at-random photographic memories from times past with family and friends at a sorting event, up at Schweitzer, family gatherings, gardening centers, geocaching at Sunnyside and at home stuff.

Always fun to look back on the good times and pick out familiar faces.  Enjoy.