My laptop

…has wings.

We mean to travel in the van this summer and I want to be able to work comfortably when we’re on the road.  When I’m working, I have multiple files open at the same time, one or more usually providing information for the one I’m working on.  That single laptop screen just doesn’t get it.  This winged-screen attachment feels like a winner.  I’ve been test-driving it on the dining room table.  I’ll try pairing that with a real keyboard that has a number keypad and that could do it.

Progress report

Los tres amigos.

The Firebush

The Lantana

And the Esperanza.

All recovering nicely from their winter stress.

Northern Parula

Range map.  Where it winters.  Where it summers.  I forgot to include it.

An eastern bird.  We’re westerners, so we never saw it before we got here into this eastern tip of Texas.

Here is one for the summer tanager too.

A southern bird.  It doesn’t make it to Colorado or the west coast, so we never saw it before either.

Jury Selection

It is reported from inside the courtroom that Trump may have dozed off a little during jury selection today.  The chin may have hit the chest a time or two.  That’s unfortunate for someone who refers to his opponent as Sleepy Joe, but here’s the deal.  Having sat through oh so many in-person afternoon continuing education classes, while a presenter stood at the head of the room, reading tax code or government regulations to us in a monotone without ever looking up to make eye contact, I too have been the victim of the afternoon slump.  In that regard, I understand the pain of the ex-president.  Mandatory attendance for an excruciatingly slow process, in the afternoon.