random thoughts – Day 1,864 – (Thursday) – changing season

Bleeding heart buds.

The bleeding hearts are coming up all over the yard from the splitting and transplanting last year. There are two new plants out front and several out back. Some of them have buds of little heart blossoms dangling from the branches like bracelet charms. 

In other spring news, the mayor of The Bungalowell backyard has been making appearances. There might be more than one woodchuck back there, I don’t know. What I do know is, the fluffy blobby things are more agile than I imagined.

The other day, a woodchuck climbed up a chain link fence and down the other side, which seemed impressive. I’ve also seen one squeeze into a space that looks impossibly small given the bulky looking appearance. 

Woodchuck as meerkat.

Today, one did a remarkable impression of another critter. There was the sound of dogs barking somewhere in the neighborhood, and suddenly Chuck emerged from under the ramp to the shed and sat up straight and looked around like a meerkat. Maybe there has been some streaming of Meerkat Manor in the woodchuck abode. 

After work, there was a meetup of the Tuesday night dance group to plan the dance show in June. We worked on the lineup, keeping in mind time for changing costumes, and mapped out which would be stage dances and which required space on the floor in front of the stage. 

We talked a bit about the actual costumes, like which dances would have pants or 25-yard skirts, and long tops versus short tops, and quiet belts instead of coin belts. And we feasted on a potluck supper. It was fun. We have just under eight weeks until the show. And two of us in the Tuesday group, have two days before our Earth Day show with the Sunday group. The change from dance preparation season to dance performance season is here.