November 17th

Got up and made breakfast while Grant made more bread. At work Grant cleaned the outsides of the gardens while I raked the rest of the trails, finished planting my favorite plant in the whole entire world, sornia, and finished planting vines also. At 11:30am, I went up to the reception to let Kendra go to lunch. I got a couple from North Carolina who had a more difficult accent to understand than some Spanish accents are for me. and they were speaking English! As I let them down to the gardens, a hummingbird fell. I felt so bad for it I picked it up (I know you're not supposed to do that). It's green with a rust colored tail. I set it by the door to the reception so I could watch it and make sure it flew away when it recovered, but it stayed there. Then the rain came down hard, and was soaking the poor bird who didn't move for cover. SO I help him, then took him home when Kendra relieved me. I put it in a bowl with my wool sicks to keep it warm. Kendra said it was probably the same bird who hit the window at the reception this morning. We left it close to the ground in the planter box under the overhang, then went back to work. We did a bunch of tours right at the end, then talked to Glenn about taking care of Goldi. When we got home, Delvin was feeding the bird sugar water. It still couldn't fly. I fed it a little too (have you ever seen a hummingbird drink up close?? it's the most amazing thing I have ever seen.) We all kept an eye on it the rest of the evening. we also made two loaves of bread and two cakes (we're freezing one of each so we don't have to make them as often). the bird was still there when it was time for bed, so we took him in his bowl to our room and let him sleep on the floor under our shelves. we didn't want him to get eaten by anything at night, and we wanted him to stay warm.