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(In my best Andy Rooney voice) Do you ever wonder why we say "I caught a cold"? There are a lot of things I would like to catch (your mileage may very}, an award winning photo, the game winning touchdown pass in a football game, the buxom redhead that works at the bank. Hell, I'm even good with catching a 2 for 1 deal on a dozen extra large eggs at the grocery store. What I'm not good with is catching a cold. Coughing, sneezing, body aches and pains, chills, lack of energy, loss of apatite. Snot to mention hacking up all that mucus and phlegm. These are not things anybody I know wants to "catch" So why do we use that term. I propose a change. Instead of saying "I caught a cold" I think we should say "a cold caught me". After all, nobody tries to catch a cold.

If the above rant wasn't a dead giveaway, I have a cold. Symptoms started last Friday with a sore scratchy throat. Things stayed that way through Tuesday. When I woke up Wednesday morning the sore throat was gone. Yippee! Colds gone! Nope. No such luck. A few hours after getting up the cold kicked into high gear with all the nasty symptoms mentioned above. No fun but better this week than next week.

Snowy Egret

Great Blue Heron

Male Belted Kingfisher

American White Pelican

Snowy Egret

Bombs Away!

Osprey

Male Gadwall