Time for a Northern Pintail picture.
And maybe another.
Graceful, aren’t they? Good looking ducks.
Yard count
There are great birds at locations all around us, but we don’t usually see very many birds in the park. We get doves, mockingbirds and sparrows every day. Maybe we get 6 different kinds of birds. Today was different though. Every time we looked up there was something else flying past. We got 15 species: Flyovers by: Greater White-fronted Goose White-tailed Kite White-tailed Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Crested Caracara Sandhill Crane And the usual suspects: Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Ruby-throated Hummingbird Golden-fronted Woodpecker Northern Mockingbird Northern Cardinal Great-tailed Grackle House Sparrow Tonight we met some friends in McAllen to watch Green Parakeets and have Chinese food.
Wishful thinking
From Becky’s house. Conner’s dream bedroom would have a secret button. When you pushed it, a ladder would drop down out of the ceiling and he could climb up to an entire bedroom in the attic all his own no-one else knew about! Tiegan’s dream bedroom would also have a secret button. When you pushed it, a secret elevator would take you direct to the basement, and the basement would be full of rats! Teigan thinks they’re fun pets.
Check this out
Becky and Brian have been working on a project. Together they’ve built an iPad app: a Labrynth. It’s only for the iPad; the graphics are too big for an iPhone, or iPod. It’s a collaboration. Becky came up with the idea, researched the concept, found the music, and created the website. Brian wrote the code and graphics. Here is the website link: http://labyrinth.aswdev.com This app went online Saturday. In three days they’ve sold 110 downloads. The majority went to the United States, but 6 went to Canada, 4 to France, and 2 or 3 each to Brazil, the UK, Turkey, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, India, Russia, and Australia. How cool is that? An instantaneous world market! They had to pay for rights to the music they used and buy an Apple Developer’s license. They’ve recovered those costs. If they can come up with a really good game, it could even pay for programmer time. This one is relaxing. They’re thinking something educational next. Maybe something Montessori based.
South Padre Island
There were kites in the air Saturday when we visited South Padre Island; all shapes and sizes.
Even an octopus.