So I've been doing research down in southern Iowa for the past month, far from that blogger lifeblood, the internet connection. I'm finally living in a town with -gasp!- a wifi-equipped coffee house, where typing isn't as precarious as it was perched on the steps outside the Mt. Ayr public library.
I've been able to see d.w. and Chins quite a bit while I've been down here, although given the hungry tick d.w. got as a little memento the last time she was down, I have a feeling the visits may be fewer. Either way, in a couple of weeks the two of them leave to spend the rest of the summer in California with the grandparents. Yeah, that will be sad and I try not to think about it. Good thing I have more than enough birds to count, nests to monitor, and plants to measure.
Given the wind and thunderstorms today it feels like the apocalypse is upon us, so I imagine I ought to get along back to the house before the sky opens up again. Nice seeing you again, if only for just a minute.