Time is NOT on my side

No time to really look up much of an illustration to go with this post...time is once again something fleeting in my life now that I'm taking care of my little grandsons once again.  At least this time around the hours are more sane than insane.  Only 9 compared to 11 1/2.  These hours I can live with.  And now that we're living in Michigan we live more humane hours than we have in the past 30 years.  We get up around 4:30 and go to bed around 9.  Much better than up at 2:30 and in bed by 7!  In fact, that was quite an adjustment for us, the 3 hour time change as well as arriving here when it switched over to Daylight Savings Time.  We wandered around for a week or two never sure what time it was.

I've been busy getting our yard in decent shape the past few weeks.  I've also put a bird bath outside that gets traffic all day long, sometimes up to 6 birds at a time.  Also, a feeder out front the boys can see from our big picture window.  What a variety of bird life...cardinals, sparrows, grackles, mourning doves, cow birds, starlings, robins, tri-colored black birds.  We also have a thistle sock that a pair of American gold finches are coming to every day.  They are shy visitors...if we pass by the window they're gone.  But once the boys leave in the afternoon the pair show up and are so beautiful to watch.  We also have a pair of opossum who are nesting under a blue spruce tree in the far corner of the back yard.  Big squirrels everywhere.  Oh, and we can't forget the little chipmunk Dylan has named "Whoppy" who comes to the feeder, too.

Boys are here...must go.  But one of these days I'll be back.  Or so I keep telling myself.