Actually, they numbered (at least) two yesterday: one male and one female black-chinned hummingbirds are visiting the nectar feeder with some regularity, even in the howling winds we had for much of yesterday and today.
Oh yes, warm & windy. It was warm enough yesterday evening that we left the window next to the bed open all night. Not open wide, mind you, since the winds were still raging; but open nonetheless. A first for 2011!
I’ve been scolded for not giving more details on my injury. I broke the left fibula at the ankle, have a boot splint, am to keep the weight off it for a couple of weeks but I might be given permission to walk on it then. Meanwhile, most chores have been handed off to Alan & I am enjoying rest and reading vacation. Not too much pain, except when it first happened and if I’m stuck with the leg not elevated for too long; and I wouldn’t have realized that it could be broken but Dee insisted I go to Urgent Care to have it x-rayed -- because when it happened there was a very loud “crack!”
How it happened (this is why I didn’t post details before): I was walking. That’s it: walking in the corral, on bare dry dirt in my good hiking shoes, and I still managed to roll my ankle and break it. Oh well. I guess I just had too many good books piled up waiting for my attention.
Not everybody can have a sexy sports injury, after all.
Meanwhile, I am able to have tea on the porch in the mornings and listen to the birds, and the hummingbirds have returned to the feeder.