Things are humming right along...

It's been nearly two weeks since being admitted to hospital to try and find out exactly what was going on and unfortunately all the tests came back inconclusive. That's a good thing of course, but I'd really like to know exactly what the hell happened that made me grow so ill because it wasn't exactly like being in perfect health one day and the next laying in a bed with tubes and needles all over the place. My better half was a little more than ticked that I didn't say something sooner because I began feeling less than normal several weeks earlier and figured it would pass. Well, it didn't. It built up until the headaches, fatigue, and body aches sent me over the edge. I found it very hard to concentrate on menial tasks, so that was the final signal to get some medical help. Anyway, I've been at home and slowly getting better albeit slowly. Still taking some nausea inducing meds, but it's always better safe than sorry if it is Lyme's Disease.

On a different note, we've started working on several aspects of the house again and have bought tile for the kitchen and hardwood flooring for the living room. We have a door being built to our specs and should set the design tone of the house both interior and exterior. Now if we didn't have to work, we might be able to get the house done in the next 5 years. Maybe.Once we called it a day and I'd experimented with different wall textures in the foyer (neither of which we liked much), I spied some very quick movement around the hummingbird feeder. Indeed, we have some visitors. Two different couples in fact. It was a good chance to take some photos, so I took a stool outside and perched patiently for 45 minutes in order to capture about 10 photos, four of which I'm posting here. (Note to anyone wanting to buy a Canon digital Rebel: you need much faster ISO speed than 1600 to capture wing movement, so save up an buy a higher level camera). I was tinkering with camer settings so these aren't as good as they should be.

This is the male from the first couple:
Below is the male's partner. He hovered about a foot from me and to the left as she fed. Territorial little jokers for sure.
This is the male from the second couple. Below is the second male's partner. He wasn't so territorial with me but buzzed around making sure the previous male wasn't trying to corner in on his action.