Shredding
7704 Quail Hollow Dr.
Blue grosbeak eating the sunflower seed
The new dog started me on this chore. He pulled all the important papers from the shelf. The folder contained everything about the old house.
Great Blue Heron wading in the seasonal creek
I shredded some unimportant papers: completed work forms, warranty on a refrigerator I no longer own. The hard work: what to keep, what to shred. Two packets of the house appraisal one with colored pictures, the other in black and white.
Wild Turkey scratching in the woods
Had to tear those apart, the shredder takes only 6 pages.
The machine whined with each batch, filled the wastepaper basket then a garbage bag.
Barred Owl calling, from a tree branch in daylight
Plots of land boundaries, loan papers, all those many papers I haved signed to buy a house.
Indigo Buntings on the feeder
Two dogs in the fenced-in yard, both gone. I wonder if the buyers have lived there long enough for memories.
205 Allen Ruffin Ave.
Pileated woodpecker on the dead tree
is not the same although the bird list is about 50. I still do the feeder count, a holdover from the old place. No woods to attract many birds but some are exciting:
Evening Grosbeak, Dickcissel,
Cooper’s Hawk on the stair railing.
So I keep feeding the birds and squirrels in hopes the Pileated Woodpecker will return. In the meantime, I will be satisfied with Northern Cardinals and Carolina Wrens.
Vita and Ms Woolf
Pride issue
2024
