brief hiatus

Had to cancel last Saturday's shift due to a family (the out-laws, not La Familia Loca) situation. I plan to be out on the beach this coming Saturday if at all possible but it's touch and go. I'm negotiating to take next week off from work at Gray Cubicle World so I can catch up with my life -- cleaning, shopping, laundry, and I sincerely hope birding. Meanwhile, I have to be satisfied with watching redwinged blackbirds harassing the leucistic redtailed hawk in the parking lot at Gray Cubicle World, great blue herons flying to and from the rookery at I-93 and I-495, and the seemingly enormous numbers of brown headed cowbirds that have appeared alongside Rt. 62 in Bedford.