Hope the title didn’t make you think something super sexy was coming! 🙂
Anyway, it’s Canadian Thanksgiving today, and so I’m going to enjoy another day with my family (my daughters and son-in-law are visiting for the weekend!).
But I thought I’d just take today to share some quick pictures that my husband took while we were birdwatching on our recent trip in our RV. We’re back home now, but one thing we like to do as we travel around is get out and look at birds. It helps us get more active together (at least we’re hiking!), and we have a goal and something to work towards (can we find our 500th bird? Yes, we can this trip!).
I just want to encourage everybody to try to find something to do with your husband. It doesn’t have to be something you both enjoy to the same extent; Keith’s way more into it than I am. But I still enjoy it, and it lets us spend time together. And that’s important.
Here you go!
A cactus wren:
A cute little hummingbird (I forget which kind! See, I’m not that great a birdwatcher):
A Gamble’s Quail (these are even funnier looking in person!)
A Gila Woodpecker:
And here was our official 500th bird: the western bluebird!
I’m going to go have some fun with the kids today! I think we’re going to drive them back to Ottawa and then go bowling. Let’s all get creative about some things we can do with our spouse to get out of the house and away from a screen (which I may find easier to do lately since I’ve lost my phone. Sigh.)
To my fellow Canadians: Happy Thanksgiving! And to everyone else, have a great day, too.
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 29 years and happily married for 24! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 7 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
Very good bird photos! They could be in a bird guide! Fun that the western bluebird was your #500! We had a pair build a nest in a birdhouse on our garden fence & I was so delighted – they are beautiful! (We’re up in the NE corner of Washington state, close to the Idaho and Canadian borders). Road trip out our way sometime!
I would love to, Erin! We don’t see a lot of the western birds very much, so that’s why it was so easy to get so many new species this trip!
You should really come to Israel sometime… It’s a bird watching paradise. We have 10 species in our back yard alone in the middle of the city… And the Hula valley where migrating birds fly through between Europe/Asia/Africa.
Lydia–I would LOVE to do that! And I’d love to meet you, too, after all this time. I’m going to save this and your email and one day I’ll probably email you and say, “we’re coming!” 🙂
Thank you!! I’ve been praying that the Lord would open up an avenue for my new husband and I to connect on. We don’t have very many interest of common activities that we like, so it will be challenging, but I look at this like a “light bulb moment”. I will be praying that God reveal to me (us) what that “activity or activities” might be.