"but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."
QUOTE BY ILYA PRIGOGINE 1917 -

There's a huge chirping chorus outside, transforming a snowy Saturday's quiet to sweet concert.
They'd finally found the pine cones slathered with bird-food goo! I'd placed them on an outside window ledge a couple of days ago.
...and nothing! - not a peep for TWO whole days - until now.
(My good old bird-feeder had met its depise, thanks to greedy squirrels, so for now the window ledge must do.)
Actually the bird's delayed concert is more than enough reward for the effort it took to search web for just the right recipe for slathering pine cones to a bird's satisfaction and then stewing the cornmeal & oat mass with honey, peanut butter, and water.
When cool, it's solid enough to stick to a pine cone.
Luckily I picked up the big pine cones last summer for home decor.
...perfect for this purpose.
The website where I found this mush claimed that 'the birds will love it!'.
After two quiet days I had doubts. Almost threw away the extra.
But, just when you think all is lost...!!!
They're still chirping as they dine.
Soon they'll need a refill.

"What we least expect generally happens."
QUOTE BY BENJAMIN DISRAELI

"of people around whom you should not make a sudden move."
QUOTE BY DAVID LETTERMAN

Independent as all get out, she never gave up.
109 years ago today, Mom was born, daughter of farm parents.
She made it through 94 of those years busy in her late teen years teaching grades one thru eight in a one-room country school house, enjoying marriage in the 1920s' Flapper days, then dealing successfully with the 1930s Great Depression by launching a business which she conducted while raising a family.
Then, finally retirement: and, independent as always, refused to give up driving her car until she almost drove headlong into a cement truck, but did not.
Her frustrated family's efforts to stop her driving failed, so police were told to be on the lookout.
When they pulled her over to the side of the road one day, she lowered the boom in terms strong enough to wilt them. And when family showed up, the police were still drooping.
One thing about Mom, as long as she lived, she never gave up.