Two items of note:
1. NO pecking on the house shortly after sunrise the last 2 mornings. I think I got the right bird.
2. Weed eating the huge bank & culverts in front of the new house this afternoon. First time this season so the grass is/was long - taking several passes to get it shorter & shorter until mowed grass height. A 20-something young guy stopped & offered to cut the bank for me - just happened to have his weed eater in his Jeep. He told me later he went home & got it after seeing me working & came back to help. I offered gas money, but he wouldn’t take it. He got about 3/4 (& the worst part) of the the bank done before he ran out of gas. I had run through the 3 batteries for the old weed eater soon after he started. A new weed eater is on order & I should have it May 3-6.