Weekend (with pics!)

[miss_ljv]

Steve and I had an AMAZING weekend. It was just so relaxed and nice.

Friday Steve streamed his curation of his top 10 Games of the Decade (2010-2019). It was so fun, and I teased him a ton. The only thing I hard disagreed with was how long he kept Pokemon Go on his list. He has a channel points incentive called Memory Card, which is where someone asks a video game related question and every tries to answer it. For example, name 10 games where you can jump. I redeemed one after he'd curated his top 10, and as is customary, he asked if I had a question for the group. I said something like, "Name one game that stayed WAY too long on his list" and it was hilarious. Also at one point Courtney said,

and I could not stop laughing. So good.

Overall his list was great for him. There were a few surprises but I know Steve is always true to himself. Me mock harassing him won't actually influence him at all.

Saturday we declined trying any socially-distant hangouts with Courtney, Scott and Nick, and opted for a cute day instead. I slept until 10:30 and then spent the day relaxing and knitting, and playing hearthstone. We ended up watching like 8 hours of Chris Chike streaming Guitar Hero. It was awesome. We also finished our Hearthstone puzzle FINALLY this week!



Sunday I basically knit and played Hearthstone all day, and Steve was surprised into going to Noah's to do the podcast, which disrupted our plans to finish Last of Us 2. We had time to bang one out though and that was 10/10. I need to finish this test knit by like Wednesday and I have a long way to go, so I started just watching all of TL Yarncrafts videos while I worked because she is amazing.



Yesterday while working I heard a super loud THUNK!!!! And it only took me a second to realize a bird MUST have hit one of the windows. I looked out front and didn't see anything, so I went to the back sliding glass door and sure enough, a big pile of feathers was facedown on the ground.

I went out to see if it was dead, and it was a teen hawk. It had flipped itself onto its back but was looking pretty rough still. I watched it for a few minutes before using an end of my flyswatter to try to help it stand up, since I couldn't check for wing damage when it was on its back. It let me helpt it up, but it was panting pretty hard.

Wildlife sites said panting was shock and to get it into a dark box to calm down. When I first turned it over, it was all wonky and I couldn't tell if it had a broken wing, but the right wing was left out for awhile. It let me sort of block its head and feel around the wings a bit but I don't know anything about what feels right or wrong?? I don't touch birds???

When I tried to get it into the box, it puffed up and did NOT want to get in the box. I didn't push the issue.


After I brought the box back inside, it had tucked its wings away and inspection did not show anything visibly out of place with feathers or wings, and it could move its head around. So I decided to go inside and watch for a few from there.

I watched it until it walked out of my view to the side of the house. I was worried that the crows would come to harass/kill it, so I wanted to make sure I knew where it was going, and if it wasn't getting better I could take it to the Wildlife Resource Center. When I found it in the shade between the wheelbarrow and the house, I watched it for a bit. It had finally closed its beak and calmed down. Eventually I started talking to it and it decided it had enough of me and flew up into the trees in the easement. Phew!! Poor Hawky boi.

So much excitement for an afternoon!

I meant to focus HARD on the knitting last night, but we got impromptu invited by Ben and Sean, who were visiting for Sean's sister's wedding? Maybe? to sit outside Dmac's house and watch him play ITG. We ordered World Street Kitchen and Milkjam and sat in different parts of the yard and it was a good time.

Dmac was playing on his machine and set up a monitor outside for us to watch easier XD


Sean working on some sidewalk chalk <3

Comments

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a fun weekend *^^*

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

It was enjoyable!

[kensmind.livejournal.com]

That is so cool about the hawk and your efforts to make sure it was healthy. I was glad to read that it eventually flew away.

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

Me too... I would have approached the whole thing very differently if it did not turn out okay.

[brittdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the hawk was okay. We were watching one out the window a couple mornings ago as it tired to find an easy lizard or something to eat.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the hawk was okay. it sounds like all in all, it was a fun weekend.

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was very relieved the bb was okay. Phew!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Windows are so dangerous for birds...

[lyssa027.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that Hawk Boy was ok :)

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

Me too, I would have been devastated otherwise ;A;

[emaciatedwords.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a nice weekend :D
Aw poor bird. Glad it seemed to be okay!

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a definite relief. I would have been sooo sad if it was not okay.

[kurikuribebi]

How many pieces was that puzzle?!

How good that the Hawk managed to fly up in to the trees. I would have freaked out until we all died.

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

1000 :D I definitely need breaks, fresh eyes, and helpers just for sanity. Otherwise I start to get irritated lol.

Yes omg. I wrote that with the confidence of someone who knew the end of that story. As it was happening I was very worried and when I first saw it on the ground I was FILLED with dread and sadness. I am fond of the hawks and the guilt that my window killed one would haunt me forever (much like all of my car-animal encounters)!!!!

[meringues.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the hawk is all healed up and flying to places happily now!

[miss-ljv.livejournal.com]

That is my hope! When it flew away it didn't look like it was struggling, phew.