Woot, woot!

Yippee, the Packers won their first playoff game!  I had high hopes going into the game, but could barely watch the end of the game.  Jason had to leave during halftime in order to make it to the first of his two hockey games tonight, which meant I watched the second half of the game by myself.     I couldn't stop thinking about how awful the loss in overtime was last year and how I wouldn't be able to bear it if the Eagles came from behind to win at the last minute.

Jason sent me a text when he got to the ice rink that said not very many of his team had showed up (watching the game I suspect).  Received another text after the game saying that they won 6-5 in OT and that he scored 2 goals.  Yeah, Jason!

This morning I was in our bedroom ironing and putting away clothes when Baloo jumped from the bed to the chest in front of the window.  He started excitingly wagging his tail the way he does when he sees birds.  This caught my attention because there hasn't been a lot of birds around lately.  It took me a few minutes to see what he was seeing.  I first saw the two huge black birds in the trees behind our house and then I saw this big guy.

 I went outside to take a closer look (and to snap a few pictures).  When I got close, the two black birds flew off, but this guy just sat there chilling.  I couldn't believe how big it was.  I eventually went back inside continuing to look outside to see if it was still there - I was hoping to catch it flying away so that I could see how big its wing span was.  No such luck.  I'm pretty sure its some sort of hawk, I looked at a bird website earlier, but I still can't say for sure what kind it is.