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[layla]

I saw the season's first butterfly today. Actually two of them, a pair of viceroys (a monarch butterfly mimic -- we don't have monarchs here).

Looking back in time, I checked last year's late-April LJ entries to see if it's just my imagination that the snow is melting slower this year, and, well ... see for yourself.

Last year on April 30, this is what the yard (and environs) looked like:





And this year, the same general areas look like:





Sigh ...

I spent all day Saturday in a certification course for CPR, first aid and AED (defibrillators). As well as, obviously, being potentially useful, it was quite interesting and I now have all manner of source material for horrible things to do to my hapless characters.

Comments

[jammielynn.livejournal.com]

what did youdo the class for? i used to be a flight attendant, and i loved doing that course every year. our instructors were way fun when we did the AED part... because so many people don't know what it's like to REALLY use one.. so many other factors come in to play. Hopefully you never really need to use one. it's way scary.
anyhow... good day!

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

It was for work. It wasn't required, but they like to have at least one person in every department who's CPR certified, and ours didn't have one (at least nobody with a recent certification). And it turned out to be quite interesting! I hope I never have to use anything I learned, but it's always best to know, and it answered a lot of questions I'd wondered about but never knew the answers to.