Keegan graduates from Boulder HIgh School

Yesterday was graduation day for Boulder High School
students. Keegan graduated, but skipped graduation. He and Viki
came up here for dinner last night. Keegan received a math award
at the Awards Event earlier in the week and he has a music
scholarship to the University of Colorado this fall. Viki says
he has spent so much time learning the stuff he needed to play
for the recital for the scholarship that he hasn't had time to do
any composing for a while. He has composed a couple of really
nice pieces that he played for us at one time or another. He has
a full-size harp now and it is gorgeous.

Today Robert an Xekial are working our our septic system. I'm
not sure quite what they are doing, but it looks to be a rather
extensive project.

Keegan carried my papyrus out to the pond for me last night. I
have trimmed the dead stuff off of it. It was not a happy plant
in our upstairs hall. It did much better the year before in the
guest room which was cool and had a higher humidity. However,
the guest room window suffered from all the humidity. The plant
is so huge, it's a hard to figure what to do with it in the
winter.

The fish are out and active and eating despite the water
temperature of 44 degrees. Most of these fish have been raised
in our mountain pond so they don't realize that it is too cold
for them to function. Of course if they wait until it is warm
enough then the season is too short. I think their systems are
turned on and off by light as much as by temperature. In any
case we have about 30 of them that have made it through the
winter and I plan to get another 50 or so feeder fish in a couple
of weeks.

The humming birds are more numerous this year than I have seen
them to be in the last few years. I have one feeder by the
kitchen window and one on the front porch. The one by the
kitchen only has 3 openings so there is some fighting going on
when all three spots are taken. It's fun to watch.