Midweek

We had a hot night last night. I had trouble sleeping. It was warm when I got up too so walking wasn't much fun. I did get out though and walk. I'm glad I did as it was quite a day for wildlife. We saw a Mallard Duck with just three babies, a raccoon with three babies and, on my way back to my car, I saw three pileated woodpeckers! Three lots of three. 

The pileated woodpeckers made me laugh. Two of them were dancing around a tree. I think it was some sort of courtship thing. I took a (terrible) video that I thought I'd share. I've never seen them do this before! I took lots of photos of them too. 

My Phone Photo for today is a photo of Mum racoon with two of the babies 173/365

When we first saw the Mum she was on the ground and kept looking up. We finally look up and three babies are coming down the tree! We gave her space to move on. 

After my walk I went over to Jane's house. We managed to get out all the bits for the rubbish pick-up. I packed up a few more other bits. It is getting emptier. There is still a lot to take for donation. We plan on loading up a van full on Friday. It will help to see what is left to do when the donation stuff is gone. 

I've had a headache tonight and haven't really done a lot. I fell asleep after cooking our evening meal and doing the washing up. I am trying to stay up a while longer before going to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to get a restful night sleep. It seems to go in cycles where all I want to do is sleep and other times I can't sleep. The heat doesn't help. 

Tomorrow, I have a hair appointment scheduled. This was rescheduled from the other week when I wasn't feeling well. I am hoping that I can get to my appointment ok. There are roadworks all over and several detours which isn't fun especially when the detour leads to roadworks! My appointment is at 11.30 so I should miss work traffic.