Happy Guinness Update! And... another bird.

Hey guys!  Happy Monday!  I know Mondays aren't happy, but the good news is that THIS Monday is the first day of the week before Memorial Day Weekend!  So, I think most of us have NEXT Monday off!!  So, that's some happy news, and I hope all of you are getting that day off.

I wanted to update you all because our dear Guinness is feeling great!  He's pretty much back to his old self now, and he's been keeping all of his food down :).   He's still on his meds for 4 more days or so, but he's doing great :).  Here are some cute pictures of Guinness over the last week:

 So, you guys.... I am not even kidding here when I say that I thought the blue jay would be my final favorite bird, but we had a surprise visitor in our yard that BLEW MY MIND.  This just happened yesterday, and today I saw this SAME visitor again when we were on our walk with Guinness, and I've never seen this bird before IN MY LIFE!!!  It is a woodpecker, but I've seen woodpeckers before... and they are normal and bird-sized.  This woodpecker was ENORMOUS!!!!  It was like the size of a duck or a cat, so it must be a different species of woodpecker than I'm used to.  Kevin and I were on a Zoom call with his family, and we were facing one of the windows in our downstairs den room, and all of a sudden we were both SO distracted and we were like, "OH MY GOSH!!!!" because we saw this HUGE woodpecker moving around on the tree outside the window!!!  Kevin's family was like, "What is going on???? What are you guys looking at????".  I was able to get a lot of pictures, and my phone compiled them into a gif so it's like you can see it walking around on the tree!  I'm not sure if gif files post ok here, so I'm sorry if it doesn't work!  I'll post the gif, and below it I'll post a picture too so you can see it just in case the gif doesn't work.  Now, keep in mind this thing is the size of a duck (the tree it's on is enormous):

Isn't it amazing looking??  And today when we were walking Guinness we saw it flying in our neighborhood.  It's huuuuge and so amazing. 

So, nothing is going to beat the excitement of that bird, but I thought I'd go ahead and post the pictures I took of our azalea bushes that are in our backyard!  Two of them aren't looking amazing, but one of them is looking awesome.  These were all here before we moved in, and we haven't really done anything to them:

Here's the 2 that aren't looking great... but I like their red flowers!  And you can see Kevin in our screened room!  We like to hang in there when the weather's nice.

Our weekend was pretty good!  We watched some more James Bond movies, and I really enjoyed a few of them and a few I didn't like as much, and one was literally the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.  The ones I enjoyed were On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the only one with George Lazenby) and Live and Let Die (with Roger Moore, who I thought I hated as Bond but I hadn't seen this one!).  The one that was literally the worst movie I've EVER seen in my life was the old Casino Royale (from 1967).  This one isn't really considered one of the real James Bond movies, and it was intended to be a comedy/spoof and it's loosely based on the Ian Fleming book, but it's by a different production company.  So, that one barely counts, but we wanted to see it anyways, and it was PAINFULLY BAD.  We also watched Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With the Golden Gun, and The Spy Who Loved Me.  I thought those 3 were ok but definitely not what I'd call good, but nowhere near as bad as the 1967 Casino Royale!  But, I highly enjoyed the George Lazenby movie even though I'd only ever heard bad things about it... and I also thought Live and Let Die was great even though I've never liked Roger Moore before!  So, next weekend we will continue our James Bond marathon starting with Moonraker. 

I hope everything is going great for you guys, and I hope you get a 3-day weekend this next weekend!  I'm thinking of all of you, and sending my love!