Well…it’s the second day of quiet up here and it is odd how not thinking about that all the time has opened me up to seeing and appreciating other things that are around me…this morning, when I was on the trail through the woods, I saw a red headed woodpecker fly across the trail in front of me and land on a tree and I couldn’t believe how big it was…it must have been a foot tall and I don’t remember them being that big…on the way back down the hill from the beach, there was a deer just standing next to the trail eating someone’s lawn…it looked up as I approached but didn’t run…it just watched me and then went back to eating…that was a little weird…when I was heading out for the second ride, I saw that someone was mowing the empty lot across the street so I turned around to go back and talk to him for a while to find out why he was doing it…it turns out that the city pays people 200 bucks a year to adopt a lot and that lot is one they assigned to him…he lives in the neighborhood and was a pretty nice guy but he had an electric mower that went dead before he finished so I think I’ll finish it up for him tomorrow and do the trimming with my string trimmer…will give me something to do and I do want to help out….oh, one more thing, my daughter and her husband just bought a “summer home” in the Poconos…I’m pretty happy they are doing so well….