August 11

TWN was right, they said the rain would start around 9 am and it did. 
I put some seed out for the birds first thing this morning before the rain started. Usually only one of the cardinals will sit on the railing, the other one will be on the deck, so it is hard to get a photo of both of them together. Today, they were both on the railing together so I was able to get this photo. A couple of minutes later another male cardinal landed on the railing and these 2 left.
There were 2 squirrels around this morning too, and they were acting like toddlers, fighting over the seed. The chickadees fly in and out, for the most part they ignore the squirrel. The blue jays and mourning doves were around off and on too.
I looked at a mini home this afternoon. I liked the location, the size of the lot and the outdoor space in general. But at 625 sq feet it was much too small. There was no space for a kitchen table. I would have had to sell my nice big office desk as there was no room for that. There was only one closet in the place and that was in the main bedroom. No closet in the second bedroom and no closet by either door to hang jackets. At some point one will come on the market and it will be the right one for me.