As life goes by

Two of my girls are working at the Buffalo Headwaters challenge this past weekend. Amanda works for Phat Tire to help make the weekend go smoothly. Elisa and her kick-ball team were cooking chili for the event. Samantha rode her bicycle. Amanda said Samantha had gotten to the Fire Tower on Cave Mountain Road first. They camp out there for the weekend and sometimes it is pretty cold and/or rainy. But, they do love doing the event each year. Sunday has been a beautiful day.
My birdfeeders have been having gold finches this week. They are beautiful! There were males and females all over the feeders! They are so bright yellow. I am going to put up hummingbird feeders this week. Some people have already gotten hummingbirds so I must get busy feeding them. Love watching them racing back and forth drinking sugar water.
I was reading about the first Supermoon of the year which is called the Pink Moon of April. It will reach peak illumination at 11:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 26, 2021. Doubtful it will be pink, but it commemorates the blooming flowers of spring. If you don’t see it on Monday, you will see it on Tuesday (almost full). April and May 2021 will have the most powerful supermoons this year. Look for it as it rises above the eastern horizon Monday evening. Hopefully, you enjoyed it even though the paper will come out after the event.
Noticed many people haven’t taken their second vaccine because they are worried about the potential side effects. I took both and did not have any side effects. Many of my family and friends have had not side effects either. A sore arm which is what happens when I have any other shot is the only thing I noticed about it.

Can you believe it is almost May? The first weekend of May is Union Hill Decoration and then following that many more take place. Amazing, May 9, is Mother’s Day! Usually, Mother would have been wanting to go floating on the Buffalo River. Seems like it was just yesterday but it has been 17 years since she died. As I was going to church this morning I thought about Mother while I was looking at all the fog over the lake. She loved days like that. When she drove to Russellville each week, she loved the difference in the weather and enjoyed the sixty-eight-mile trip no matter what. She loved nature!
This year there are three of Mother’s great grandchildren graduating from high school. Robert’s granddaughter, Alyssa Phillips (Geoff’s daughter), My granddaughter, Mary Margaret Grace Harris (Amanda’s daughter), and Logan Shipman (Jane’s grandson) are all graduating. Sixty-four years ago, three of Mother’s grandchildren were born. Robert (Greg Phillips), Jackie (Terri Humbard Mundy), and Patty (Stan Shoemaker), all had a child that year. Fun having cousins the same age.
Oh, please consider taking your vaccine. Wear your mask, wash carefully, and watch your distance when in groups of people you don’t get together with often.