Matt Of All Trades

This video came out this past spring, but it's still a perfect illustration as to why I do not have children.  I lack patience. Could you be patient with this? Many parents are. I'm not. Watch. To watch it in bigger view, click on the YouTube logo on the bottom of the vid:

Rockefeller the owl survived a trip wrapped up in the  Rockefeller Christmas tree until rescued.  I got a kick out of the story that came out early this month about the tiny owl that was found in the Christmas tree put up in Rockefeller Center in New York.  The tree is a long standing annual tradition. The fact that the owl had a rough adventure is so 2020. It proves that nothing is easy for anything. Including for that random owl from New York.  The owl was apparently hiding out in the 75-foot Norway spruce when it was cut down in Oneonta, New York, then trucked to the Big City.  Nobody noticed the little northern saw whet owl until workers were unwrapping the tree in Manhattan. Thankfully, the people on the Christmas tree team rescued the  Luckily the owl was just hungry and thirsty, and suffered no injuries.  The owl, now naturally named Rockefeller, was taken to Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, New York where it was given a rodent smorg...

I had to start fresh with this blog today.  Blogger changed the way everything is done, making things far more difficult in the name of "improvements" which I fail to see.  The changes left me without access to my blog, called Matt Of All Trades, so I abandoned it at the beginning of August. But I've been missing it ever since. I'd built up a readership there, that has now been destroyed because of Blogger, but after struggling, I concluded they've left me no choice but to start over.  So yeah, I'm whining. Deal with it.  You can see all my old posts at  http://mattalltrades.blogspot.com/  so feel free to take a look at the oldies but goodies.   This new version of the blog has the URL  https://mattalltradesvt.blogspot.com .  Not the vt at the end of mattalltrades in the URL.  That's the big difference.  So we'll give this a whirl.  We'll see where this takes us!