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July 22, 2021

Later

Thursday. To sleep not long after ten to awaken at five and half listen to the news until it was after seven before getting up and walking to breakfast under overcast skies to arrive and settle in at my table to start on the papers. I'd checked to see if the pigeon was still trapped in the net on my balcony and he/she was indeed still there.

The plain waffle with sliced bananas and strawberries, fruit cup and coffee, finishing up by nine to set out for home, the sun now out, the temperature still comfortable in the long sleeved shirt and light summer jacket.

Arrived home to take the selfie in the lobby and then start the usual routine at the computer, downloading the morning pictures, but then calling the apartment house manager whom I'd informed about the trapped pigeon and he came down to see what now looked to be a dead bird hanging in the net. What to do? He wasn't up for climbing out on the balcony himself and so we decided to let the bird be until we figured out what to do with its body later.

The dead pigeon, however, suddenly awoke after the apartment house manager had left and seemed quite active so I climbed out over the two-by-fours blocking the balcony entrance with a pair of scissors to see if it would cut the wire net and discovered the “wire” was in fact thread and the pair of scissors would cut right through it without a problem.

The pigeon was having none of this, of course, and it took a couple tries before he fell through one of the two openings I'd created and flew off without a problem. Good. Very good. I didn't want to end up having allowed a pigeon to die of starvation on my balcony without having tried to save it.

Later. A walk to the 7-11 look-alike more to get out of the apartment than to buy a pint of ice cream, chips and bean dip. Wasn't hungry and didn't need the calories that they contained, but picked them up anyway and ate them all down when I got home. Oh, well. You have to go off the reservation once in a while just to remind yourself where the boundaries are located.

Evening. Watched a new Prime movie on the tablet, got up to check out Vera at eight feeling quite tired and so bailed after twenty minutes and went back to bed. Lights out well before ten, let's hope my own lights go out sooner than later.

The photo up top was taken at the 2016 San Francisco Anime & Cosplay Festival with a Nikon D5 mounted with a 70-200mm f 2.8 VR II Nikkor lens.


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