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Afternoon folks!

There's another helping of good stuff here for you. Starting off we have an album from Chicago slide guitarist Tampa Red, followed by another old school Chicago blues musician, piano player Johnnie Jones, who played as a sideman on a virtual who's who of Chicago blues records, this time accompanied by blues harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold. After that we have a compilation album from r&b singer/songwriter Young Jessie, then we move on to a great album of some blues rock from Robin Trower. In the diversity department this week we've got a rockabilly album from Sleepy LaBeef and a live album from Richard and Linda Thompson.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! Hope you are all faring well this morning!

We have had an interesting 10 days around here.

First, there was Hoppy. I mentioned her a couple of years ago, the Cardinal fledgling I noticed that could not fly. My best guess is that she had fallen from her nest and injured a wing. We made sure she had water in a bowl on the ground, and bird seed, and sort of protected her from other birds at the busy feeder. After a time, out of the blue, I watched her take a flight into a low limb on a tree. She made it!

Now, it's Vinnie Barbarino Vulture. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago spotting an injured vulture walking around the pasture. Before we left for a couple of days, we did see his mate feed him. She will either bring pieces of meat from a carcass, other times she regurgitates in his mouth. In any event, when Vinnie sees her land, he squeals and runs to her. She stays a little while with him, then flies away. They perform a vulture version of Happy Dance.

Happy Friday everyone. It's the end of the week. You know what that means. Time to put all the nuttyness going on in the world on hold. Got a photo you like. Post it. Got a meme you like. Post it. Got music you like. Post it. Got anything else you find of interest. Post it.

Got back from Oregon last night. It's going to take a few days to edit photos. I'll have them ready to post next Friday. In the mean time here are some birds from Santee Lakes I took a two weeks ago.

Avian Annie. The bird whisperer

So what's on your minds today, folks?

It's Thursday, you know what that means memes...