mary e. pearson

1. Some of you may remember my flower pot dilemma. Well I am happy to report that watering hasn't been a problem, and besides laying a fourth egg, we now have babies! They are so tiny they are not even poking their heads above the nest yet. Hunter has taken to being the "bird guardian" standing below the flower pot, which is fine with me because he keeps the ravens away.

2. Speaking of ravens, they are creating a racket outside even as I type and the kids in the neighborhood are cawing right back at them. Why do I find the kid's cawing cute and the raven's annoying?

3. A Publishers Weekly blog ran a piece that Erma Bombeck wrote years ago titled If I had My Life to Live Over. It concluded with: "Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."

Good advice, Erma.

This weekend, don't wave off your dessert. I'm not. I might even have two.