"Necessity dispenseth with decorum"- Thomas Carlyle

From a friend's FB page. True dat. But for me it's the 60s.

At 5:30 the sky is getting light. Out our east facing window I can hear a woodpecker rapping on something metal every minute or so in an effort to woo a female. It's loud and the rhythm is the same each time. I hope it works for him 'cause he's sure giving it his best effort.
In a tree much closer is a robin chirping furiously. Maybe he's mad at the woodpecker for stealing his morning's glory.
And way off in the distance someone's rooster is crowing non-stop to make sure we know he's large and in charge.
Three birds with very different and distinctive tunes. I enjoy them all.
Life in the woods.

Out the west-facing window (the "front" side) Cat One is sitting on the porch deck railing. I'd get out of my chair to snap a picture but as soon as I stood up he'd jump down and run for the barn assuming I was coming out to feed the critters, including him and his brother.

Buddy is asleep on his bed over in the corner. If he knew there was a cat 5' outside the front window he'd go crazy trying to figure out a way to give chase. I suspect Cat One is perched there because it's right underneath the two hummingbird feeders. They'll show up soon for their breakfast and he has fantasies about catching one of them. They're fantasies because both feeders are hung just above his reach, and to jump would mean landing on the ground 10 below.

I left Buddy and my chair to go into town. First stop: Dizzy's for a cinnamon roll, coffee, Handel, and an hour working on my lesson for Tues. night's "Continuing Ed" class. This week's installment of the "Intro to Theology" course is a look at biblical theology - why it's important and how it's done.
I'm having fun. We'll see if there's a big drop off from last week's 45 +/- who attended. If the number plummets it means they're not having quite as much fun.

I have to stop what I'm doing when "Zadok the Priest" begins. A wonderful passage (1 Kings 1:34) set to beautiful music that demands my full attention.

When I opened the coop door this morning the pullets didn't dive for the far corner, so they're feeling more at home.
Emily raises rare breeds of chickens (there's a market for exotic breeds) and agreed to raise our chicks until they were pullets. She works at the feed store so we paid her to buy them and two bags of feed, then she took them home to raise with her chicks so we could keep our hens and the eggs they produce for a few weeks longer.
Our pullets are a hybrid Rhode Island Red, a large breed that's known to be hardy and lay big brown eggs. But a dozen ladies need a man around the house so Emily gave us one of her "surplus" roosters about the same age as our pullets so there wouldn't be any bloodshed.

Even at only two months old he's distinctive looking, a right handsome fella. I asked her the breed.
Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben.
How's that for a mouthful!
I looked it up and learned that's a Swiss breed that almost went extinct during WWII but was saved by a group of German breeders. It's fairly common in Europe but rare in the U.S.
He needs a name and I'm inclined to El Hefe (more properly El Jefe), which is Spanish for The Boss.
Friend Marci suggested Cornelius. Huh? She explained that is the name of the Kellogg's Cornflakes rooster. As in: CORNelius Flakes. OK, that's a good option.

I spent another afternoon working on Sally.

This is the patch panel I put in weeks ago. I needed access to Pam's Blazer before I could do the carpet because I knew it would take at least two afternoons. Turns out to be three. The white around the edges is seam sealer.

Then padding. Not necessary under where the seats bolt down.

Then the carpet, which comes in a front and rear piece. Getting them in took a lot of time because it has to be trimmed to fit around the edges and the holes for seat bolts and seat belt bolts located and cut. But all of that went well. There was just one wee problem.

The back side of the carpet had markings for cutting the opening for the shift mechanism. I naively figured I could accept those markings as accurate. Nope. I have an opening that is 5" square and a console cover that is 4" square. Phoooooey!
But I have a plan.
Tomorrow afternoon I'll put the seats back in and work on that issue.

Pam left me zip lock bags of frozen meals she'd made - spaghetti, goulash, enchiladas...
Unfortunately I forgot to take one out of the freezer this morning so I had dinner with Mrs. Swanson. She wasn't at her best.

I'm going to go over my lesson for tomorrow, write a few "Look Out" emails, have a cup of coffee, and call it a day.