First, an update on the pigeons. I lost the little one that was sick. I think it was just too late by the time I found it and brought it inside. But it passed peacefully in a warm and safe place. It’s always sad when there’s nothing I can do except keep them safe. The pigeon with the tattered flight feathers, due to mites, has now shed and regrown nearly their entire supply of feathers except the last 4 main flight feathers and their tail feathers. They’re looking very healthy and quite ready to rejoin their flock since they don’t like humans very much. Maybe a week or two and they can fly free again. I try to treat birds that cannot fly and if they’re able to be set free again, that is the outcome I strive for.

Another pigeon has joined us. It’s a very young King Pigeon. It has a band on one leg that is illegible. I had to trap this one. It had no clue about living in the wild. It didn’t have a flock and wasn’t very good at finding food. By the 3rd day after it showed up in the neighborhood, it was so hungry that it was oblivious to my approach while happily eating within a small pet carrier. It’s easy to trap a hungry bird. It’s now in quarantine, being treated for parasites, getting vitamins and wallowing in a bowl of seed whenever possible. With this little one, it wouldn’t be able to survive in the wild. All-white pigeons are highly visible targets for predators and since this one obviously comes from a domestic environment it needs to be a homebody. It might need some convincing. It appears to have been neglected, if not mistreated. If we can’t keep it, I’ll be finding it a good home. This site has helped many pigeons become homeowners https://www.pigeonrescue.org/

There’s a full moon coming up on the 7th of September. It’s known as the Harvest Moon and there’s a twist, this one’s a total lunar eclipse as well. As I mentioned before I use the moon to help me stay on track with plans and purposes. Lunar eclipses are the perfect time to remember to look up and around so we don’t miss the little joys. It’s also time to start tying up my current projects and assessing what I managed to get done, where I could have done better and what I need to do to complete things before the new moon rises on September 21st. On that note, I spent the entire day today working on legal issues. Laws probably need to exist but oh how they complicate simplicity. Yes, I say probably because I am a bit of an anarchist at heart. I have the firmly held belief that too many laws make us all criminals by default, if not by choice then by our own ignorance.

One of the things I’m working to complete is adding audio to this blog. I saw it on another blog and went oo! I’m not sure how to go about it though, and so I must dig some more. While it’s nice having the entire known world’s data at my fingertips, it can be difficult to navigate which section of the library something is stored in.

“Knowledge equals power…
The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship.
Power equals energy…
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.
Energy equals matter…
He swung into an avenue of shelving that was apparently a few feet long and walked along it briskly for half an hour.
Matter equals mass.
And mass distorts space. It distorts it into polyfractal L-space.
So, while the Dewey system has its fine points, when you’re setting out to look something up in the multidimensional folds of L-space what you really need is a ball of string.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Thanks for reading. I really do appreciate it. Some days, like today, I feel a bit like a 5 year old suddenly in an 8 foot deep puddle. I like the water but hey that’s a bit much!