When do I become old? When did my music become old?

I have a niece I text every now and then. She likes to talk about music and who she listens to. Always someone trendy and sexy.

She asked me who I was listening to. I said "Talking heads"

"Who?"

"You know, Burning Down the House, Psycho Killer."

"Ok. Never heard of them but job uncle."

Sigh. These songs aren't really that lost and forgotten, are they?

On the hummingbird photos-- it took several days and over one hundred pictures to capture the six I posted. Hummingbirds *are* flighty and fast creatures. The good photos took as much luck as anything else.

The husband's step-niece, SS, spent the weekend with us.  SS is lovely. She likes to be engaged in conversation alot. I almost wrote that she talks a lot, but that's wrong. She spends a fair amount of time asking deep questions... getting to know you. That makes the whole experience that much more tiring for me. I need social downtime. 

We had a good tour of Seattle. We saw the sights, walked the walks and ate too much.

The husband and SS spent much time discussing being adult children of alcoholics. This is complicated. Some of their past history is harrowing. 

The camera is setup on my desk and pointed out the window at the hummingbird feeder. I've taken hundreds of pictures over the past week. These are the few that turned out.

The Rufous is orange. The Anna is green. They will occasionally duke it out. I'd love to capture that. 

I can't tell if there is more than one rufous. Is the rufus in the first photo the same as the rufous in the last?

It's been a tough week at work. Our company was hacked. It's made the news. Seven people in the UK have been arrested as a result. Our company is a little tone-deaf in the public handling of the issue.

Fortunately my division was not part of the hack. Just sitting in a front row seat, watching it all happen. As a middle manager, I must project a positive and forward looking attitude to all of this. That can be tough.

I love that the husband keeps in touch with so many people. I have hermit tendencies. Left to my own devices I stay at home. I enjoy the solitude. I also enjoy the husband bringing people in to my life.

We had a few of the husband's oldest friends over for dinner. My husband went to grade school with M&M (who are sisters) back where he grew up in the south. Years later one of the sisters moved to Seattle. The husband and she have kept up their friendship ever since.

For the third year now, we have a rufous hummingbird in our back yard. I first noticed Rufous at the start of the pandemic. The window in my home-office looks out at our hummingbird feeder.

Rufous can live to be eight years old, so this could be the same one.

I threw out our old hummingbird feeders and purchased new ones. The old ones were fading. My theory is that the hummingbirds are attracted to bright colors. As old feeders fade, they should be replaced. 

Or repainted? Googling around, I see that some people repaint their older feeders to help attract hummingbirds.

The mask ordinance is over in our county. People may optionally mask. There's no requirement to do so.

It feels a little dirty to be in a store without a mask. About half the people in the grocery store were without a mask. 90% or more In the hardware store

Many people are still masking in restaurants.  This is weird as you only wear your mask from the front desk to your table. I would've thought that masks would go quickly in restaurants.

Through the pandemic I have not had a cold or a flu or a sore throat. These inconveniences are the price to pay for going maskless.

We are back. I enjoyed our ski trip to Park City. 

Park City has an elevation of about 7000 feet above sea level. The air is noticeably more thin. My pulse goes up a good 10%. You can get winded with ordinary walking. 

I had my annual physical exam today. It went well.  My cholesterol is almost at the level where the Dr. would like me to go on medication, but not just yet. I've got another year to get it down.

We are in Park City for a few days. Today the weather was wonderful. Spring conditions. 

our old friend Bayley is here with us. Things are going well with her.