We had to load a lot of food and clothing into the car before we could leave the RV at Huie's, and then we came straight to the cabin. It seemed extraordinarily dry for as much rain as we thought they had been getting, but the stream was running well (though the Pecos River was running much faster) and the hills were turning green.
The cabin itself was very clean. We honestly thought maybe Chris had swept the porch or cleaned it a bit, but he didn't. We were able to quickly make some hummingbird food, since we could hear them in the hills, and I filled the bird feeders, hoping the grosbeaks were already around. Both hummers and grossbeaks had found their food by Sunday morning.
The miracle of the day was my cleaning efforts. Since the cabin was very clean considering it had sat all winter, it didn't take very long to get it in shape. So I got a wild hair and decided to clean the three shelves on which my mother displayed all of the bottles she had found in various dumps above the cabin. I don't know that the shelves and bottles have ever been cleaned, but I can now say the date can be etched in stone: May 7, 2016. Bottles and shelves thoroughly cleaned.
We were able to spend some time with Sherry, Huie, Richard, Brandi, Jaz, and Liam, which was a lot of fun. Those two twins are so cute - two months older than Caleb and doing about the same things Caleb is, except they are walking up a storm. Fun to watch them.
Just before we left the Ley household, the swallows appeared. Apparently this is the first day Sherry and Huie have seen them. We aren't sure whether they are Cliff Swallows or Rough-winged Swallows, so we are taking our book and binoculars to see what they are!
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