Looking west.
This was a gorgeous one. Part clouds, part sun, temperatures well up into the 40s (F). Chickadees in the woods out back. This was a bicycle-riding day—or would’ve been, if not for my nagging abdominal pain. I awoke with it this morning. I don’t get sick much, don’t much mind little aches and pains. But this one seemed different, sort of lingered in the lower-right part of my gut. A quick Google search confirmed appendicitis as a possibility.
I did manage to take a drive to town, where I managed to count the usual species—crow, herring and ring-billed gulls, rock pigeons. A great wheel of gulls circled the little cattle yard up at Rockville Street, scraps of white against a patch of blue.
Cut to the chase: I had my appendix out this evening at about 7:30 p.m. Dr. Paine did the honors—a friend and expert surgeon. He told me I should be able to go home in the morning.
Today’s List
Black-capped chickadee
American crow
Herring gull
Ring-billed gull
Rock pigeon
Tags: American crow, black-capped chickadee, herring gull, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon
