Opening Up.

9-6-24 SHORT HILLS: We’ve been back for a week yesterday and have been busy seeing docs doing chores in the house and yard, had the plumbers over for a water heater flood [not fatal] in the basement, had dinner with Lynn and Bill, and had dinner with Bebe and Ronnie, got flu shots. Judy has done a dog visit. We both have more medical visits up coming. Monday I have pre-op evaluation at an HSS extension in Paramus before the new knee. Even the dogs have had vet visits. 

We had a wasp nest next to the house treated. My car was serviced. Next  week looks to be as busy as this one was. I filled the bird feeders, and the birds emptied them in two days.

In bloom: abelia, Rose-of-Sharon, clematis, white snake root, crape myrtle, caryopteris

Cardinals are back, as are all the usual suspects, including the grackles, who got most of the seeds.

We never see these critters in VT, too many predators, but there are always some here.