Usually we spend our time watching the birds out our windows, but the last couple of days have been another story.  Yesterday we woke to the sounds of a helicopter — very close!  Turns out, it was a small one-man helicopter with chemical tanks on each side, buzzing back and forth over our pond (Featherstone Lake) getting rid of some of those pesky mosquitos that are just waiting to hatch and visit us.

Today, we looked out the window, and we saw the association was having a controlled burn done of the wildflowers/weedy area between us and the park land behind us.

The workers did a great job of controlling the fire, but it’s still pretty unsettling to see fire that close to your house.  After today, it will be nice to go back to watching the birds!