Good Morning

Awakening old Kadizzle looked out the window at the neighbor's roof.  Frost, there it was frost on the roof and summer is supposed to be here.  At last the grass has finally turned a nice green, and the leaves have become brave enough to come out on the trees. Kadizzle has been helping old Stroupini build his new backyard. Yesterday Kadizzle borrowed the transit from city hall and showed Stroupini how to use it.  Getting the yard to grade is the first step. In graduate school Kadizzle took a course in landscape architecture, so that makes him an expert. Now we have a day in front of us.  Could be a great day to get Winky on her new ebike.  May even ask Stroupini to join us with his ebike for a romp through the prairie.

Dallas and Marilyn are our neighbors to the west.  Both are getting up in years. Dallas is 87.  They are like the old Timex commercial, they take a licking and keep on ticking.  Those two are out in the yard everyday if the weather permits.  Dallas can hardly walk, but manages to weed, prune, and he just built a nice little planter.  Marilyn is having a hard time with her sight, but you can't keep them from jumping around.  They have been very good neighbors.  Often in the summer we all sit on their back porch have a rootbeer float or a refreshing drink.   Winky and Kadizzle help them with a lot of task. They are very enthusiastic bird feeders. One of Kadizzle's jobs is to stock the bird feed. It takes about three fifty pound sacks a month when the whole flock is here. Dallas has gone to great lengths to attract Wood Ducks.  The ducks come back year after year. Why not, Dallas has built a dozen nice nest for them.  One nest is equipped with a camera so Dallas and Marilyn can sit in the kitchen and watch the young ducks hatch.  Yesterday the Kadizzlites hauled a trailer load of mulch in for Dallas and Marilyn.  So who knows how the day will go.  A lot of little task are running around waiting to be done.