Still windy

This is interfering with my contribution to the 12th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count (http://www.birdcount.org), as gusty winds make small feathered creatures seek shelter.  I had hoped to enter our Whole Hells of Birds into their statistical universe, as several of the species (redpolls, crossbills, and siskins) are only occasional visitors to our shores.

EDIT

I am perplexed as to why "ring-billed gull" would make the website ask me to verify my sighting for yesterday's report.  The birds are more common here inland than herring gulls . . .

Today's entertainment

Since we finally have all the 2008 tax data, I am wading through forms.  Including some extras I had to download from irs.gov . . .

This is what I get for being too cheap to pay an accountant.  Can't justify the expense for our income range, but we have too many complications of this and that and the other thing.