I needed to keep space in our refrigerator until the baby shower was over because I wanted the space for thawing out the frozen lasagna. So this morning when I looked just what was in there – well not so much. Of course left over lasagna, a couple of cupcakes, and beef jerky. Yup, that’s about it. I decided that I better do something about this, so after I got some coupons organized, off to Decorah I went for groceries. It’s not that far from us, and on Sunday it’s about the closest place that’s open to buy groceries. I didn’t buy too much, but I did buy the garden seeds for this year. I’m so hoping that I have better luck than last year. I honestly don’t think it could ever get worse. So when I was picking out the seeds for this year it took me forever to find just the ones that I wanted. And it was one of those times when you think you found the ‘best’ one and then you looked some more and found even better ones. Honestly, I just need something that can hold it’s own against the weeds! Finally I checked out and grabbed a quick sandwich to go. The sandwich turned out a little messier than I was hoping so I thought I’d kill some time and go out to see how the fish hatchery and the Bald Eagles are doing. It seemed to be a perfect quiet spot to scarf down my sandwich. OK, there were almost more people there than at Walmart. (just joking!) But there were a lot of people on the bike path just pulling up to see the fish or a group of people were looking at the bald eagle in the tree. If you have not heard about these Eagles, it started a couple of years ago when there was a live stream web cam filming this one family of bald eagles. And the story went viral! Even Kyle in Korea overheard some people talking about the eagles in Iowa. Crazy! It was the most viewed live-stream of all time in 2011 when the website reached 250 million views on Ustream, with roughly 2.4 million views per day. I was just checking the information out on the web and if you go to Wikipedia which is a web based dictionary – Decorah Bald Eagles is part of the dictionary now. On Wikipedia it identifies all the birds by their names so you can keep track of when which one was born and such. OK, now people make fun of me for naming all my animals, these Bald Eagle stuff really kicks it up a notch don’t you think? But it’s something to watch and it definitely has caught a lot of peoples interest, so it must not be all that bad. We have quite a few Bald Eagles by our farm and I really don’t like them to get too close. I used to get worried about them taking our chickens and cats, but now that Kaiser is smaller than some of our chickens, I sure hope they don’t start looking at him too! I only stayed a few minutes at the hatchery and then I checked out to see if anyone was trout fishing. This is also really popular around Decorah and the trout stream is usually stocked a couple of times a year with fresh fish. But only one person was out fishing today. I guess maybe everyone else was watching the birds.
Just some of the people hanging out today watching the Decorah Bald Eagles
When I got home Daryl was busy with getting the grain wagons ready to haul corn into town and then he was working on scraping out the cow yard. 
The fields were too soft to haul manure today and it was funny because there was still ice in the cow yard making it too hard for Daryl to get it all scraped. What a crazy year! I put a roast in the crock pot for sandwiches tomorrow night and then I also headed outside to work on cleaning up some of the yard. I was able to later get some of the seeds planted tonight so when the garden is ready, I will also be!
I only have the vegetables planted and hopefully tomorrow night I’ll get the flowers started too. I have them set up now in the laundry room, but I’m thinking it might not have enough sun during the day.
I know that the seeds are planted pretty thick, but I can transplant them when they come up to other pots
I guess I’ll wait and see if the table gets moved to the back room. I sure hope I don’t have to because it’s not going to be that fun moving everything. But I want these seeds to grow, so I guess I’ll have to do it if it comes down to it.
Have you ever had one of those days that seemed to last a long time? Time today was like when you were a kid and it seemed to go on forever. Well that’s how my day went today for me and it was great!
The picture of the day is Decorah’s Bald Eagle. 