Day 86

It's Sunday, so reading the paper took up a large part of the morning.  It was warm, over 60.  So I was going to go over and walk around Circle C with the dog.  But first I decided to hang up the new lights.

Just getting the old lights down was a pain.  I had to move everything away from the wall so I could get the step stool in.  Then I had to pry off all of the staples holding up the lights.  Every one was dead, and they aren't replaceable.

Hanging up the new ones was a bit of a pain also.  I did decide to use new staples.  I think that was a good decision, it made things easier.  Of course then there was the cleanup, putting things back, and throwing away the garbage.

While I was hanging up the new lights I brushed one of the flamingos.  I just barely touched it, but it broke.  The Texas weather sure does a job on things left outside.

The whole job took longer than I thought and made me tired.  So I bagged Circle C and watched football instead.

One interesting thing.  There was a dead dove laying in the yard.  At first it looked like it was just sitting there.  When I picked it up you could see that it had been shot, either with a pellet gun or a single pellet.  It wasn't enough to kill it immediately.  It must have flown off after being shot and laid down in the grass where it died.