Too Much Time On My Hands

If you said Styx...then you do have too much time on your hands. If you are holding a grand child in your arms then you are blessed indeed.

Cindy and I went to Denver for John Paul's baptism and that was a blessed time.




The littlest Crane.



Entering the family of God.



Matt and Jamie God parents.



Michael

A rare picture of boys holding fairly still.



Proud grand parents.

Happy grandpa.

Cindy went back to Denver for the week to help Ashley as Alex went back to School. So What do I do with my time here?

Making bread.

 

 

Playing games.

Editor's note: File Photo...all cleaning really takes place the day Cindy arrives back home.

jW

Watching basketball.

Big painting project down stairs.  



Spring cooking is here.

Hope your spring has sprung and is going well.

I Want to Fly Like an Eagle

If you said "Steve Miller Band" give yourself 1 point. If you have a picture of an eagle in a nest give yourself 2 points. Oh that's me!

Dene' and Tyler came  to Lincoln for spring break. Yes you heard me right...they came to Lincoln Nebraska for spring break. They may have been the only two in the country here for spring break but we were happy and blessed that they did. We watched a lot of college basketball and even did some birding. Those two activities may not sound like they go together but we enjoyed them both.




Cranes in Kearney

Snow geese.

More cranes.

Bird apparel.

Saturday we took Dene' and Tyler to the airport and Cindy and I went birding at the Desoto Wildlife Refuge, north of Omaha, looking for eagles. Success. 

Here is what we saw at the Desoto Wildlife Refuge:
16 eagles (1 eating a fish on the ice, 12 flying, 2 in a tree across the Platte River, and 1 in a nest)
(3 eagle nests)
Canadian Geese
Snow Geese
1 Red-winged blackbird
1 Wild turkey
1 Downy Woodpecker
Common Merganser ducks
2 Franklin's Gulls
1 Double-crested Cormorant (is this a duck?)
We heard a Black-capped Chickadee (which caused us to pull over, it was so loud, which led to the Turkey and Downy Woodpecker sightings) and a Red-bellied Woodpecker.

On the way home we saw a Northern Harrier and a Red Tail Hawk.  We had to chase the hawk around a little in order to make the ID.  He wasn't too cooperative.

We also sighted 2 wineries: "Too Far North" in Ft. Calhoun (near the Northern Harrier sighting) and "Cellar 426" in Ashland (just south of the Red Tail Hawk sighting).  We didn't stop, but thought of Team Lead.

Eagle in a nest
 

A pair in a tree
 



Flying over head
 

Elusive Red Tail Hawk

 
Next week we are headed for Colorado to check out the Stork sighting at the Crane house.