"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock

I've had a very mixed day. It started at the coffee shop where I finished the prep for that 3-hour leadership seminar including the slide show. Alas, that's in English, so getting it into Spanish has yet to happen.

I came home and putzed on several small projects because I lacked the lumber and misc. supplies to tackle the bigger tasks. We took care of that tonight by going into Lowe's and getting lumber, nails, a dehumidifier, and some quick-set cement.

In between I realized what a beautiful afternoon we had - bright sun, calm, and temps in the mid-50's. So I went for a walk in the woods on the far side of our creek. Almost half of our three acres is over there, a combination of trees of various sizes and a bunch of scrub, all on a not-too-steep hillside. I'd only been in there once before, shortly after we moved here in October.

I was only about 10 yards in from the private road and heard the trickle of water. I was too far away from the creek for the sound to be coming from there unless I was totally disoriented.
Nope. About 40 yards in I discovered this: (I'm not sure this link will work. I've never tried this before. I took the video on my phone and Gmail says it's too big to email to myself, but not too big for uploading to Facebook - owned by Google)
https://www.facebook.com/craig.macdonald.5099/videos/10153876973004573/

It's a spring that bubbles up from that hole in the ground, runs down the hill about 30-40 yards, and then disappears again. I'm assuming it joins the creek at the bottom, above or below ground.
It wasn't there when I walked this same area in October, but Oregon was at the end of the drought that affected all the western states. Since then we've had El Niño rain, so I'm curious to see how long into the year this spring runs.

But the day has had some sadness, too. Michelle's brother, also named Craig, was diagnosed several weeks ago with pancreatic cancer. He had surgery almost immediately and got good news: they caught it early and the malignancy was localized at the end of his pancreas where they could excise all of it. As soon as he recovers from the surgery they'll schedule chemo.
Last night he started bleeding from the surgery site. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, went back into surgery, and was discovered to have a serious infection. His condition is very serious and there's concern about his survival. The family has been told that the next 24 hours will be critical.
Craig has a wife and two young children.
Please pray for Craig and his family.