So I'm on my deck in Central Maine enjoying this afternoon, as usual, by myself.

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An overcast day to start, slow soaking rain...cool with overcast clouds. OK, made it easier to do my business work. Just as well, as that took about 7 hours.....

But done by 4;30 and the weather lifted. A glorious afternoon on the deck, listening to music on the BT speaker and clearing phone notifications. With a bottle of Dark Horse Cabernet Sauvignon. Here is what I can report happened.

Humming birds. The feeder is about 10 ft away from where I sit. These little guys seem very territorial. Lots of aerial fights happened....one being a full lock-up that resulted in 2 of them hitting the deck, Never saw that before.

Chuck. The woodchuck/groundhog made a visit. Hadn't seen him in a week or so. Makes a determined move over to my cultivating blueberry plants....now I know why I have no blueberries. Then on to my raised bed (one of 4). He got into #4, closest to the house, about 15 feet below from where I am sitting, and proceeded to take down a plant that I believe was a weed. About 4 ft tall, no fruit. Okay, thanks. Then he hit the beans. Turns out, he/she really likes bean leaves. Spent 15 minutes chewing on them. No problem, oddly, beans and peas had mysteriously disappeared about 2 weeks ago. Was waiting for him to get into my tomatoes in #2....that would have been a raised bed too far.

Float planes. Saw a plane come over the house, about 500 ft overhead...and made a landing onto our local lake. Never saw a final made this way: the lake is about 2 miles from me - can't see much of it now, but the view will change when the poplar tree leaves drop.....keep your airspeed up, Captain!

Sunset. It coming (currently 7PM). Funny thing is, in about a week I will be enjoying more sunset time, as it moves west to east. I've got a bunch of trees that I'll be taking down this winter. For fire break concerns, but I'll be increasing my horizontal view from 250-285 degrees to 250-300. I'll see the horizontal sunset, every sunny day, after that.

Time for another glass of Cab....