Mossy Cottage Knits

A Hitch in My Computer Gitalong...

As I mentioned in my entry last Friday, I'm on vacation this week. I quite assumed that, while I was on vacation, I would be able to continue posting to the blog from either K's Mac or my PC. Uh, nope! K's Mac doesn't get along as well with Moveabletype as a PC does, and Microsoft decided to cancel my MSN account for some reason which, five phone calls to five different people in five different departments later, I haven't been able to resolve. Anyhoo, please bear with me this week. I'll be back to full posting form on Monday.

In the meantime, I'm sad to report that our Baby Barclay adventure did not have a good ending. On Sunday, we noticed that something was wrong with one, if not both, of Barclay's feet and that, in general, he seemed underdeveloped. In comparison, his sibling, who had remained in the nest for the duration, was now approximately the same size as the B-52s, was healthy, shiny black, and strong, and was flying around with great crow-like boldness. We realized we had no choice but to take Barclay to our local wildlife rescue center. The wonderful, sympathetic lady there agreed that something was wrong with his legs and said they would see what they could do, but they didn't hold out much hope.

We spent the rest of the day feeling blue, weepy, and snappish. It was not easy saying good-bye to our little charge.

(Of course, we also found it ironic that, after we had spent a week taking care of the little bird and had made a special effort to take him to a place where people would make the right decisions for him, we went to lunch and both ordered chicken...)