February 28

Today while I was eating breakfast I asked for a pony just like Delaney's!

We also had the coolest thing happen....a hawk came to our yard four or five times this weekend. Mama is pretty sure he is a Cooper's Hawk.

Here s/he is on our garden cage:

And here s/he is in one of our trees from the front:

And from behind:

And unfortunately, here is the pile of bird feathers s/he left behind near the pine tree:
We think it might have been one of the pigeons or mourning doves that occasionally show up. Mama was a little upset, but realizes that it is the cycle of life and she was mostly just worried that she had created an artificial picking ground by feeding the squirrels, who actually were able to quite ably defend themselves.

Plus she just can't resist their cute little chubby faces, hawks be darned!