Onward, ever onward

Snow relocation accomplished for the morning, Wife delivered to nature center.  (It's that icy residue and the differing attention to detail in various domains thing again.)

Sister is now supposed to arrive this evening, God and Delta willing.  This would represent her third or fourth reschedule.

Anyway, returned home to a mob of chickadees at the sunflower feeder, which compensates for a number of annoyances.  Should mention that we saw a mis-colored female house finch yesterday, a lot of white on crown and face.  At first we thought she had flown beak-first into a snowdrift, but the stuff stayed put through numerous ventures into the feeder ports.  So you have to allow for oddballs when poking through your bird book wondering what the hell you just saw...

Happy solstice?

Normally wouldn't question the celebration, marking the turn of the sun toward more light and warmth and all*.  But with the official time at 1:08 EST or whatever, it looks like I might actually see the damn thing.  Delta  (hissboohiss) has delayed Sister's flight, with an ETA of 11:35 PM as of now.

I don't generally plan on being awake that late, much less hanging around in an airport waiting room.

Go thou and celebrate each after thine own kind, and remember kindly those of us languishing in airline hell...

*Yes, this is Northern-Hemisphere-centric thinking.  I'm a Northern-Hemisphere-centric person.

And since I'm just killing time...

Damn, I miss Pogo Possum:

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby Lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker n' too-da-loo!
Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!

Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!

Walt Kelly