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Don't believe I've mentioned it this year, but've been checking the osprey nest at Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, Colorado. Nesting season is underway and the osprey couple have four eggs. Nature's best show of the cycle of life, repeated starting every spring, year after year, and going into August or September.  I've been watching this nest for, must be about fifteen years now, since before we moved from The Old Place to 7H. I think so but am not sure it's the same mom bird I started with, but there have been, I guess this is the third male bird. The first one I remember, the large company of watchers who converse online named him "Super Dad." One spring he didn't show up and was replaced by a younger male osprey whom the watchers called something like "dark legs" - - he lasted two or three years, then last spring or the spring before he didn't arrive and the current bird, a young male, moved in.  Osprey live with a great d...
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We, each of us, body, emotions, and intellect, evolve as we make our way through the Time of Life. My perfect sight is gone, to see clearly up close I have to wear eyeglasses. And my tongue, ninety year old taste buds are not as sharp as they once were, I'm not as into chocolate as a few years ago; the only dish that seems never to change for me is a tray of a dozen cold, salty oysters, my idea of Heaven might be sitting upstairs at Hunt's Oyster Bar and having one tray after another set down before me as the ages pass into eternity.  My hearing has evolved, when I retired from the Navy it was perfect, but I'm on my fifth pair of hearing aids, which I call "my ears," since 2001, and a joy of being hard of hearing is that if I don't appreciate the noises and other sounds around me all I have to do is turn "my ears" off and relax into the sound of silence.  Emotions: feelings change, my love for my grandmother was not the same as my fierce, almost obse...
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