Pesach countdown
We went to Mount Auburn first thing, and got in OK this time. We drove straight down to Willow Pond. We couldn't find any warblers, but there was a kinglet (R. C.) who was very cooperative -- in fact, was so close to us that our binoculars wouldn't focus on it -- and a field sparrow. Then we went over to the dell and saw another kinglet and got a good long look at a brown creeper that flew back and forth between two trees. That's three brown creepers for me for the spring. Many years I don't see any of them.
I got two more landscape timbers in the ground. That's more than half of them taken care of by now.
Oh, the title. We're cleaning for Passover. Since I'm writing this later, I've forgotten just what the point was, but Passover cleaning is a really thorough spring cleaning, or at least it's supposed to be. There's a rumor that one distant relative, the wife of a Chassidic rabbi, vacuums all the books in her husband's library page by page to be sure there aren't any cracker crumbs hiding in them. That seems extreme to us. This is one of the times of the year that we're sure to defrost the refrigerator and self-clean the oven, though.
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