Just a quick report this morning before church.  Anne came home this week and we played at being love birds after being almost a month apart.  Alex makes slow improvement and is tying his shoelaces, undergoing therapy, and fearful of relapses into intense hand pain.  The hand therapist encourages ongoing exercise and to focus on other things when he fears any reaction after use.  He must restore function despite mild setbacks.

Anne and my spring RV voyage is scrapped.  Instead we enjoy our forest home with singing wood thrush and flashy mountain laurel in the dark woods.  We plan for our fall Peru expedition.  We still have reservations to make, even those for the travel to and from Lima.  I review my Spanish and learn many tropical  birds.  There are screamers, toucans, atillas, manakins, and dozens of hummingbirds to learn.  Shakes up this old brain.

More later.