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Robins

  I'm enjoying a Zac Brown's song Toes. One of the refrains (can a song have multiple refrains?) in the song is " Life is good today !" That had to describe the feeling last night as Deb and I sat in our backyard. Yeah, yeah plenty of things to worry about but there we were in the cool of the evening watching the robin parents bring the last worms of the day to their hatchlings in our grape arbor. They had lost one of the eggs to a raid by grackles last week but had two hungry mouths to feed this night. Our own dinner was finished with the dishes stacked in the sink, a delicious salad from the garden and a salmon burger with a side of peas also from the garden. Some like worms, for me give me fresh peas with butter and salt, a cool late June evening, and my wife at my side - yeah, life is good today!   Our June has been a collection of 90° days with very little rain. After a reasonable snow pack this winter in the mountains a good portion of the state has slipped int...