A Regular Visitor

We didn't have to take away the hummingbird feeders but they still prefer the grevillea blossoms. They are not the least bit wary and continue about their business even when I am pruning the lemon tree and Spike is under his bush just a few feet away waiting for me to throw his ball. But the minute I point the camera at them they vanish....This was taken through the kitchen window with my phone on the burst function. S/he has iridescent red on throat and head but I wasn't able to catch it.

I harvested the citrus plants in the front of the house. Despite their near miss from the flames, I have two grocery bags full of lemons, three quarters of a bag of limes and a lot of scratches on my arms. I did like the light on the limes and tangerines I put on the kitchen sink*Tomorrow I'll harvest the oranges....

As more people are getting their covid vaccinations, I couldn't help thinking  about our rather Darwinian 'survival of the fittest' system for getting the vaccine.  The tier system (John and I are tier1 level 1b) is too complicated and nobody knows what it means.  Many who are technically ineligible have managed to fill the slots which have been reserved for the elderly. I do feel that every effort is being made to keep it fair, but incompetence and the lack of a coherent plan has made it possible for the unethical to beat the system, (is a therapist who sees her patients on Zoom a front line health worker?) the uninformed to get lost in the shuffle (an elderly person who doesn't have a grandchild to help them navigate the technology) and the rest of us to suffer a lot of anxiety. 

I got sidetracked into cleaning out a couple of kitchen drawers while I was making lunch. How many spatulas does one family need, and what the heck is this thing for? were the questions I was asking myself. I wound up putting most things back in the drawer because I didn't know what else to do with them... like an unused pair of scissors with multiple blades designed to mince parsley and cilantro when knife is much easier, or a rolled piece of silicone designed to peel garlic...but how? But at least I got the years old bread crumbs, garlic skins and random grains of rice out of the corners of the drawers....

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