Right now

Right now, you’re probably thinking to yourself:  “I wish he’d just shut up and send out some bird pictures!”.  Well, message received.

Rosy-faced Lovebird.

There is a flock of them in the neighborhood, so we hear them outside every morning!

Gambles Quail, but they didn’t want anyone close to them.

A gallinule baby.

Not exactly cute.

A night heron, if you can make out the shape.

And bunnyrabbits!

And now

The real surprise.  Lindsay set up a surprise party for Matt with a whole bunch of friends.  One friend took Matt out golfing, giving Lindsay the time to set it up.

The party was a lot better than my blurry photo!

A pool party in their backyard.

He was surprised.

Surprise!

A bunch of us got on airplanes, flew to Phoenix, and surprised Matt for his 50th birthday.  It’s not exactly his birthday, that’s not until the 14th, so maybe it’s even more surprising that we’re here on the 12th!

We brought pizza.

Real or imposter?!

Is this Freddy?  He looks like he might be a little bigger than Freddy.  How can we tell for sure though?

Is there an interloper in Freddy’s puddle?  Maybe we can think up a trick question that only Freddy would know the answer to…

Did real Freddy get displaced by Imposter Freddy?  We put Freddy/Imposter Freddy in time out until we can get this sorted out.