CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Ruby-crowned kinglet! At the suburban park.

#BirdCallOut

@eedly Yeah, for me it’s like…does my spouse (came here around age 14/15) consider himself Oregonian? Yes! So it would be dickish not to count someone like that!

But then I get stuck on whether I count from the kid or the parents.

Haha on Portland being a strike! (I was born in Portland, but since my parents were both born in southern OR I guess I don’t have to worry about that gatekeeping.)

My sister asked me as the genealogist on our branch how many generations Oregonian we are. And, uh, the problem is not knowing who got here when, it’s knowing how to count it!

So: how do other people count this? If a couple and their small kid move to [state] or [country] or [region], are the couple the first generation “of that place”, or the kid?

(Why does it matter? Because she’s writing letters to congresscritters about saving forests, and it sounds good when applying political pressure!)

Here they are!

A minute before I saw them, I had actually thought, "so much romance here today, but only one brown creeper, all alone!"

#birding #oregon #birdPhotography

Two brown creepers sitting in a tree! C R ee P I N G!

#birding #oregon

Umm, sorry for suddenly exclaiming, “Hieratic!” and pumping the air, kitties. It’s just that I’m planning a Bingo Card (lovingly) for the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries by P.D. James, and that word, just used in this final book in the series, is one of the lead contenders for the free square at the middle.

#amReading #audiobook

Where did Doc Cochran go, and how did a hermit crab get into our house?!

#CatsOfMastodon