Sardines & Cardinals.

hello! you will all be glad to hear that Owen's leg is expected to heal very soon.
he's standing now, not walking but standing, and can put some weight on his
casted leg. it no longer hurts at all, so he's taken to scooting around the house
instead of using his wheelchair.
anyway, let's talk about something relevant to the title.
first: Cardinals.
a long time ago my dad made a sort of bottomless cage
to keep plants in, so that the squirrels don't get them.
since then we have just kept it outside, not really doing anything with it.
today we were raking the backyard, when i saw a Cardinal stuck in the cage!
it was flying around, desperately trying to escape, and eventually got itself
caught in a hole in the cage, that, unfortunatly, wasn't big enough for it to get out.
so i ran to get my mom, using the back door because i thought it would be quicker.
turns out the door was locked and i had to ring the bell and knock on the door
for a very long time before mom would answer the door.
when she saw the cardinal she asked me to go get a pair of gloves, so i could hold the bird,
while she got something to cut it free. luckily though, it freed
itself from the hole by the time we got back, and was flying around the inside of the cage again.
and so it was as easy as lifting the cage.
it flew away without so much as a thank you, but it felt good to help a creature in need.
plus, i got to see a cardinal REALLY close up!
now, for sardines.
ever since my mom developed a taste for sardines, she has been nagging me to try them.
well today i finally did, and it turned out, if they're skinless and boneless,
and packed in water, although my mom says olive oil is better,
they look and taste just like tiny salmon! and that is how i developed a taste for sardines.
on one last note, i am writing a book for the NaNoWriMo young writers program.
so far, i have somewhere around 10,000 words. all i know is, it's more than ten thousand,
which is my word goal, and that is good.
bye for now! expect another post which is really just a dramatic scene i dreamed up in the car.