When I asked my just-turned-5-year-old grandson Abram what he wanted for his birthday and he told me he wanted a retractable beach with sand and where the water moved over the sand, I was pretty sure I couldn't have that delivered from Amazon.

"Daffodils, daffodils,

Our beautiful sweet Linda is having a knee replacement next week, so our coffee girls decided to do a pre-celebration lunch.

A bowl of ice cream watching "Tom and Jerry"...right down Gramaw's alley.

Old school fun.

And for today's ornithology lesson, I present to you a pileated woodpecker.

This photo is from last April.  For the first spring since we moved onto the Gray compound (37 years ago), we are raising no baby chicks.

                    "We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo

                    How about you, you, you?

                    You can come too, too, too

                    We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo."

First morning light from my cabin porch, March 31, 2019.