First Day of the Week

 The new young bird was circling around me as I was sitting on my stairs taking a rest. It is a barn swallow. 

In the past few weeks the barn swallows circle around me as I mow the yard. They want to catch the insects in the air that I don't even see and know that they are there. 

 There were probably three of them that were keeping an eye on me. Maybe they liked my straw hat. I sat still and they never did land on me. Barn swallows stay in sheds and barns making their mud nest up in the peaks of the roof. I can only imagine that they must be someone who has a larger building, maybe a machine shed, in the area of this new development that they must be nesting in. My wife's family farm had a barn in which flocks of barn swallows returned every spring to create nests and raise their young. 

My wife had a follow up visit to an optometrist today in the big suburban city. The entire area is west of the big city and has two or three major hospital buildings and many clinics scattered everywhere. It is a duplicate of the downtown medical centers. My wife will continue to visit every few weeks until everything is healed. It is hot out there again today.

Thanks for stopping by today.