high-flying fun

Ryan came to visit me this weekend. It's nice that he can get away on Fridays after his classes and stuff are over around 10:30a. I'm not done on Fridays until 5:00p! Life in Collegedale really spoiled me. I think we should all be free from obligations starting at noon on Fridays.

Anyway, Ryan came and we ate supper and went up for part of the outdoor vespers/bonfire at the field. It was nice to feel some good cool fall weather.

On Sabbath, I taught Ryan how to fly a helicopter before church. He was apparently deprived of cool toys like my plastic helicopter that my grandparents gave me about 4 years ago. : )



We had fun flying it at house finches and trying to catch it when it landed. Ryan took these pictures with his camera. It took several tries to get a good picture of it in the air.

Look! We actually used the table! I was beginning to wonder why I owned that particular piece of furniture. We had spaghetti, broccoli, and garlic bread for lunch and apple crisp and ice cream for dessert.


I guess Ryan likes the carpet better than the couch. Actually, he just was too tired to get up after I pushed him off the couch. I think he fell asleep down there.



Most of the summer birds are gone now. The chickadees are back and I'm seeing lots and lots of house sparrows. The nuthatches, like this one, are still enjoying the sunflower seed and will be around all winter. The one interesting bird I saw this weekend was a yellow-billed cuckoo. It was eating tent caterpillars out of my walnut tree, which I much appreciated.