I guess I truly am Diarmid's mother - he is the Ranting Moose

I don't know why woodpeckers are not extinct! If not from the concussions they must constantly endure, from people throwing sharp objects at them when they start their favorite pastime at 0500! Just about the time that you decide it is truly worth getting out of bed to yell at them, they quit! And by that time there is no return to sleep nor any desire to get up. Lying in bed planning entries just like this - that is what happens.