The Pigeon.

I thought it unusual when upon leaving the house on Friday morning a Pigeon was sitting, all alone, atop the fence that delineates the property boundaries between my home and that of my neighbor.

After all we have a lot of Mourning Doves here but Pigeons are kind of rare.

I thought it even odder that when I returned home that evening, that Pigeon, still alone, was wandering the edge of my property that borders the street.

I wondered if it could be ill, or what other strange impetus had brought it here, all alone.

I left my house today and saw something in the middle of the street. It could have been a newspaper all crumpled and run over...but it wasn't, and now I'm sad.

The Pigeon.

It's done, over and it was a huge success. The Symposium. At least 324 people attended. That was a rough count. It's amazing though, about 6 months of planning and it's gone in one short day. It's not me that gets the brunt of it. My part is actually very small. My applause to Sue who really does an amazing job of pulling it all together. ;-)

There are two things that nurses just love. One is free food and the other is vendor gifts. We had about 20 vendors from various pharmaceutical and product companies that hawked their wares, and gave away free stuff. During the morning break I think you could have likened it to a swarm of locusts. The crowd descended. You could barely see a vendor or their table for about 20 minutes and when the crowd cleared, the tables, once filled with "stuff", were stripped clean.

Now me, well I do like the stuff but since I was doing the registration and happened to be at the table near the hotel gift shop I spotted some items (ok so they weren't free) that I really wanted. I thought it was awfully thoughtful of them to have the cash machine just outside the shop too...how'd they know? Two, I only bought two. One is a lovely baby elephant statue with his trunk up way high. Too cute.

Then of course there was the wine and cheese. That on top of waking at 4:15 am and doing some of the running today has left me very sleepy.

I still have not gotten one shower gift and a baby elephant was not on the brides registry list. Think I could pass it off as the set of Lalique crystal she does want?

Niters.