Nancy’s been very busy with setting up medical appointments, trying to coordinate with CWU regarding passwords and getting revised MS Word and other software reestablished. The last was just fixed at 5 PM today, Friday. I guess we will figure out how to finish last week’s blog, and the one expected out this Sunday. All in due course. John
Item #1: Images
Link to story is here: Cold and dark, until … 
(Darlene Tanner/Team Tanner Photography) 10 Feb 2019
Lacombe, Alberta, Canada About 100 miles north of Calgary
Light pillars, large beams of light which appear to be reaching up from the Earth, materialize when either natural or artificial light bounces off ice crystals suspended low in the atmosphere.
The ice crystals act like little mirrors.
Item #2: Le Grande River Music
If I knew how to play a piano I’d plan a trip. This is the sort of place I’d visit – if I traveled.
About Chisasibi
Story here: Two pianos coming
Young Cree musicians in Chisasibi
near the east shore of James Bay will be getting two new pianos to play after videos of them practicing sparked a fund raising campaign.
One of the pianos is funded locally, the 2nd one is being donated; to be shipped from the south shore of Montreal. They don’t say whether this is a road shipment or by air. I suppose such things are of interest only to me.
Item #3: Stuck
This story is a few weeks old, and while from the US, I found it on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. So it is on ABC, but not the ABC seen as American TV. Maybe those who watch network news have seen it.
Anyway, an adult male Bald Eagle got his tail feathers wet while he and friends were on semi-frozen Suttons Bay, west side of the lower part of Michigan.
A Michigan based group called Wings of Wonder (Link: WofW) arrived to help with the rescue, and later release of the bird.
Item #4: While at the ABC
Each week there are fantastic photos posted from all over Australia. If you go to this link:
OZ Photos
. . . they have 15 there as I write. This set opens with a parrot.
To the right are small images and links to spectacular photos from prior years. The set takes a few seconds to load.
You’ve got nothing better to do, so have a look.
Just above, is a baby Eastern Barred Bandicoot – a small, nocturnal marsupial.
Item #5: Good News & Bad News
So the good news is our esteemed leaders have figured out a way to keep the government open.
The bad news is our esteemed leaders have figured out a way to keep the government open.
And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.
John