What We Do For Fun, Or Not

Mr. Red Molly and I went to another concert last night. It would appear that for entertainment all we do is go to concerts and the reason for that is: a) we like too very much and b) there is not much else to do here. We have been to the few museums we have here several times, we have been to the beach many times, the clubs here are usually associated with the twenty-ager crowd or the country music crowd and of course there are a lot of "gentlemen" clubs around and I didn't even realize there were so many gentlemen living in this city, we don't go driving in mud for fun since we don't have a pickup truck accessorized with gigantic wheels, we don't like to kill animals so we don't go hunting, ten months out of the year it's hot as hell so we aren't good at gardening, there are no botanical gardens here to visit, I guess we could go canoeing in nearby rivers and streams but then again we have the ten months of really hot weather factor. Well, there you go, the reasons we choose concerts to provide us with entertainment and I'm glad we do.

Okay about last night, we saw Lyle Lovett, Guy Clark, John Hiatt and Joe Ely at the Florida Theatre and as you would expect it was a very fine show. Our next concert is John Prine next month.

On another note, since last Friday we have been watching two baby mourning doves in a nest near our house as their parents take turns caring for them. The baby birds fell out of their nest Thursday night and we were unable to locate the nest in the tree and just left them on the ground that evening and then the next morning my son and I located the babies and my son but them back in the nest and the mama and papa bird have been diligently caring for them. Did you know that doves feed their young crop milk? It has been fun watching the family of birds and I do hope the babies will survive. Other things I have learned about baby doves is that when they are ready to leave the nest they will actually stay on the ground nearby for a week or two before they can fly well enough to leave their parents.

Here's a photo of my son with one of the baby birds that we rescued and try to locate the nest on Thursday night when it fell out of the tree. We couldn't find the nest so we just placed it under some leaves and twigs near the tree and the second photo is one of the parents in the nest with their babies after we returned the babies to the nest.



























Here are a couple of photos of the Vespa and will probably be it for a while since the scooter is about 98% finished and on the road. It's hard to believe that it was at one time in about a million pieces and now it's all put together and running. My son has already picked up a beautiful girl.