Chickadee Harassment

Photo by jackanapes

I’ve had a Black Capped Chickadee tapping on my living room window all morning. He jumps into the hanging fuchsia plant outside the window then onto the widow ledge then he taps on the window with his beak then he flies off for a while then he starts all over again. I get the feeling he’d really like to come inside & that he doesn’t get the whole window concept.

So we painted the kitchen ceiling last night. I did over half of it sitting in an office chair with an extended handled roller brush. I mostly did the middle and Mary mostly did the edges which required climbing on ladders and standing on counters and such. I was happy to be able to help but it was more difficult then I had anticipated. This morning I woke with a stiff neck and shoulders from the activity and also from just spending so much time looking up at the darn ceiling. I’ve been a little worried this morning that this stiffness will turn into a fibro flare up as unusual activity often causes me a flare up. But so far the location and degree of pain seems in proportion to the activity which is good since we now have the kitchen all taped and spackled and ready to paint the walls when Mary gets home today. We took some of the plastic off the cabinets so I can get to my blender and the sink today.

Not much else going on today. I started doing some research on selling your own home without a real estate agent. Looks like we’re on the right track with painting, cleaning, and decluttering. I like Elizabeth’s idea about doing a free blog with photos and Youtube videos of the house. I think Mary would do wonderfully showing the house. She’s good with people and they like her. I, on the other hand, tend to make people uncomfortable, so I’m thinking that if we sell it ourselves she’ll be the front person and I’ll kind of work behind the scenes organizing things and keeping track of everything.

I didn’t make smoothies yesterday because I still had leftovers from the day before. So for today I’ll just leave you with stats.

Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 102.2 pounds (46.36 kilograms)
Weight today: 426.0 pounds (193.23 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 426.6 pounds (193.5 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)