More birds..

But different kinds of birds.

Today I ran into a classmate of mine when I entered the building where our class meets.  She said, "There's a bird in the 5th floor window of the bldg, looking out!  I took a picture of it".  We had some time before the class began so we decided to investigate.  We went up to the 5th floor and peered into the office and lo and behold, there was a HAWK in the window!  (On the outside).
Weird.  Maybe I will see if she sends me the picture if I can post it here.

Also I ran into a friend of a friend who is raising a sheep.  

Birds at the feeder:

one bird

two birds

flock of birds

attempts to descend on feeder

scared birds?

one lands

one approaches

skittish

all birds fly off?

more birds approach

chaos!

a curiosity Pittsburgh-style?

Being a former 'burg resident, of course I am familiar with the much debated "sweeper" v. "vacuum" debate and the linguistic intricacies therein.  And while I consider linguistic variations to be
pretty interesting, I'm left to wonder if perhaps the young man working for our property management company is taking this particular regional variation a bit too literally?  Earlier as I left my apartment, I saw a young man literally SWEEPING the  carpeted hallway floor WITH A BROOM.  Ignoring my eastern-bred contention that, well, sweeping is really only done with a broom and not a "sweeper" as yinz folks in Pittsburgh like to sometimes call  a vacuum cleaner ;0
I wonder why he was trying to clean the carpeted hallways in that manner?
Especially because I have heard others vacuuming the hallways many times before!
Of course, a broom is a lot easier to carry up a flight or two of stairs, so maybe that is the answer.

Anyhow, it was vaguely amusing and perplexing at the same time. It was like a Pittsburgh/Ohio idiom brought to life!

The Pittsburgh connection continues...

more evidence of the Pittsburgh diaspora, far and wide...
I saw a Steelers bar in Austin, TX!

weather trends

In the course of one weekend, it's gone from being in the 50's to snow today.

Snow "removal" and redistribution

I found out where all the snow goes-- they simply drive it to the other side of the bldg and dump it around the perimeters of the parking lot, making giant snow mounds.

an exercise in perpetual motion?

Right now, it is zero (0) degrees outside.  There is a front-loader machine/truck picking up piles of snow, although there has not been any new snow, and moving it (where?).  The machine picks up a shovel-full/front end part of snow, and then dumps it into this truck.  What the point of this is, I am unsure.

The streets are already plowed and are fairly clear now (ie. before this).  Weird.