sarahmichelef

You sometimes get smacked in the face with a VERY HARD toddler head. I've had numerous fat lips, but never before a visible facial bruise. We were playing blocks last night and she leaned in very enthusiastically and clocked me in the cheekbone with her head - but she did say "sowwy" and kiss it to make it better, so I can't complain too much. But dude, my kid gave me a freaking black eye/cheekbone!

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When I left to go run some errands at about 2, there was a raptor of some kind with a freshly-killed squirrel in his talons in our back yard. I was about 10 feet from him when I noticed him - certainly the closest I've ever been to a bird of prey in the wild. We watched each other for a minute and then I said to him, "Got a snack there? Ok, well, please don't leave it in my yard."

An hour later, I came home to find him in the next-door neighbor's front yard. I jumped out of the car and ran in to get the camera. When I started to approach him to get a shot, he took off, but landed just across the street. Once there, he was willing to let me approach (again, to within about 10 feet) and take a bunch of shots.
Watching him watch me was pretty intense... he's beautiful, and there's just something very wild about a bird of prey with their catch in their talons, staring you down.

This guy has strung a web between the garage and the shrubbery that hides the back yard from the street. The web is HUGE and the spider is HUGE!

He's not bugging me, so I'm not going to bug him.

Incidentally, I find it VERY hard to use the manual focus on a pseudo-SLR digital camera, either through the viewfinder OR on the LCD. :^/

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