Blogging it, Sesame Street style:

1. One woman, working in her home office, thinking about reputation management strategies, and typing away on a laptop.

2. Two kids coming home from school and staying inside on a perfectly beautiful spring day.

3. Three Northern Red Bellied Cooters (turtles, to you and me) swimming and playing in an aquarium in my house. Their mama buried her eggs in our yard last summer; they hatched this spring and the boy rescued them from lawn mower death. They are Arthur, Samson and Delilah. Actually, they were just Samson and Arthur until Mark found another one and plopped it into the aquarium. (”What? You can’t just introduce another turtle into the mix!” said the boy.) Delilah has effectively made Arthur a fifth wheel.

4. Four baby birds that did not survive the fall from the nest we removed from our kayak. We did not know they were there! Their tiny embryonic bodies, without feathers and with closed orb-like eyes, perished. I buried them with a small ceremony in the backyard.

5. Five deer that ran past my office window this afternoon. A large brown animal caught my eye and I thought, “My, that’s a large dog.” and then, “A deer!” and, “NO, wait — 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Five deer!” I can count.

6. Six tiny goslings, taking a walk with Mother and Father goose. Success! The geese have hatched!

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