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My favorite place on earth is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Random Ramblings
Empty Nest Syndrome
The last baby robin fledged yesterday. At first, it hopped across the rafters in the carport. It hopped over and sat on the rafter directly over the boat. Now normally, I would have been pleased at the progress it was making, but it just so happened that the CAT was sleeping on the boat. This was not good. Thankfully, the next time I checked on it, it had hopped onto the front rafter and then...I got to watch it fly away and make it to a nearby tree. Here it is before it ventured away from the nest.
Would you know this was a robin? They look so different than their parents when they are fledglings. Oddly enough, the very day the last robin left the nest, all four bluebird eggs hatched!
Christy is Back!
The television show Christy is now showing on the Gospel Music Channel. It's channel 338 on DirecTV. It has been coming on this week at 4pm. Yesterday was the pilot.
"Can" Supper
Last night I fixed my "can" supper...you know....the kind where you just open some cans. I made salmon patties out of two cans of salmon. I served them with two cans of Lucks pinto beans and a large can of seasoned mustard greens. Of course I made a pone of cornbread to go with it.
Speaking of supper, it's almost that time, so I will close here. Thanks for stopping by.
The last baby robin fledged yesterday. At first, it hopped across the rafters in the carport. It hopped over and sat on the rafter directly over the boat. Now normally, I would have been pleased at the progress it was making, but it just so happened that the CAT was sleeping on the boat. This was not good. Thankfully, the next time I checked on it, it had hopped onto the front rafter and then...I got to watch it fly away and make it to a nearby tree. Here it is before it ventured away from the nest.
Would you know this was a robin? They look so different than their parents when they are fledglings. Oddly enough, the very day the last robin left the nest, all four bluebird eggs hatched!
Christy is Back!
The television show Christy is now showing on the Gospel Music Channel. It's channel 338 on DirecTV. It has been coming on this week at 4pm. Yesterday was the pilot.
"Can" Supper
Last night I fixed my "can" supper...you know....the kind where you just open some cans. I made salmon patties out of two cans of salmon. I served them with two cans of Lucks pinto beans and a large can of seasoned mustard greens. Of course I made a pone of cornbread to go with it.
Speaking of supper, it's almost that time, so I will close here. Thanks for stopping by.
Monday, June 15, 2009
A New Post
A good thing about blogging is that you can come back and post even if you have been away from it for a while. I truly wish I could blog every day. It was my intention when I started this blog. Unfortunately, there are days that I just don't seem to have my act together enough to sit down and compose my thoughts and share them with others. This means when I do have the time to blog, I have to pick out all the things I want to share. The sad thing is, a lot of little sweet memories are forgotten by the time I get back to the keyboard.
So now...I need to go back through my feeble memory bank and decide what is blog worthy...
1. Dear husband and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary in February. I have known him for two-thirds of my life, and have been married to him for over half my life. I can't imagine my life without him.
2. Youngest dear son turned 15 in March. I don't even want to think about it. This means next year is the LEARN HOW TO DRIVE year. Let's move on...
3. Oldest dear son turned 24 in May. He has one more year to go to get his Master's Degree in History. He is back home for the summer and working.
4. Sweet Potato! Can't have an update without mentioning the sweetest cat in the world. He comes and he goes. I am still not certain he is our cat, but we are always glad to see him and he is always welcome.
5. This has been a most wonderful year for birds. You cannot know how it blesses my heart to see them in my yard and at the feeders. Currently, we have three active nests in the carport. The robin is on her second nest. She fledged four babies the first time around when she built her nest in the rafters on top of the fence stakes for our garden beans.
This is a terrible pix, but you can see four little robins peering from the nest atop the fence stakes. We took this nest down as soon as they fledged and retrieved the stakes. They fledged on Mother's Day. The following Tuesday, momma robin built a new nest about a foot from where the old one was located and shortly after that laid three eggs. We have had the opportunity to watch her feeding them and seeing them grow. Yesterday, two of them fledged. The third one was still in the nest last night. I haven't checked this morning, it is pouring the rain.
The bluebirds finally found our nesting box and fledged five babies the first time around. The first group also fledged on Mother's Day. Now, there are four eggs in the nest. They should hatch any day.
And finally...sweet Carolina wren that loves to build in the oddest places. If you will remember, last year she built a magnificant nest in the basket ball goal...
Well, this year she chose a spot in the rafters on top of dear husband's trolling motor! Thankfully, it is an older one that needs repairs and he can do without it for a while.
We have had lots of fledglings at the feeders. A brown thrasher brought three fledglings to eat and now the three siblings are still coming together to eat. A male Cardinal has been introducing his brood to the feeders. We have blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, titmice, wrens, song sparrows, robins, mourning doves, a few gold finches, a couple of house finches, mockingbirds, downies, white breasted nuthatches, one catbird, and a hawk. The hawk has flown over the yard a couple of times, always being chased off by crows or robins.
6. Other wildlife...We have one small rabbit up on the hill, several squirrels, and a few chipmunks. The squirrels continue to "plant" walnuts in my flower pots and around my bushes and shrubs. Black bears are really becoming a problem in the county. Thankfully, we don't have them around the house. Our honey bees are doing great. I am fighting slugs tooth and nail this year. I think I am finally winning the fight! It has taken a while.
I need to close here. I don't want to tell you everything in one day. I know a lot of what I have written may seem trivial to some, but these are the things that make me happy...except the slugs.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are blessed with your own good memories.
So now...I need to go back through my feeble memory bank and decide what is blog worthy...
1. Dear husband and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary in February. I have known him for two-thirds of my life, and have been married to him for over half my life. I can't imagine my life without him.
2. Youngest dear son turned 15 in March. I don't even want to think about it. This means next year is the LEARN HOW TO DRIVE year. Let's move on...
3. Oldest dear son turned 24 in May. He has one more year to go to get his Master's Degree in History. He is back home for the summer and working.
4. Sweet Potato! Can't have an update without mentioning the sweetest cat in the world. He comes and he goes. I am still not certain he is our cat, but we are always glad to see him and he is always welcome.
5. This has been a most wonderful year for birds. You cannot know how it blesses my heart to see them in my yard and at the feeders. Currently, we have three active nests in the carport. The robin is on her second nest. She fledged four babies the first time around when she built her nest in the rafters on top of the fence stakes for our garden beans.
This is a terrible pix, but you can see four little robins peering from the nest atop the fence stakes. We took this nest down as soon as they fledged and retrieved the stakes. They fledged on Mother's Day. The following Tuesday, momma robin built a new nest about a foot from where the old one was located and shortly after that laid three eggs. We have had the opportunity to watch her feeding them and seeing them grow. Yesterday, two of them fledged. The third one was still in the nest last night. I haven't checked this morning, it is pouring the rain.
The bluebirds finally found our nesting box and fledged five babies the first time around. The first group also fledged on Mother's Day. Now, there are four eggs in the nest. They should hatch any day.
And finally...sweet Carolina wren that loves to build in the oddest places. If you will remember, last year she built a magnificant nest in the basket ball goal...
Well, this year she chose a spot in the rafters on top of dear husband's trolling motor! Thankfully, it is an older one that needs repairs and he can do without it for a while.
We have had lots of fledglings at the feeders. A brown thrasher brought three fledglings to eat and now the three siblings are still coming together to eat. A male Cardinal has been introducing his brood to the feeders. We have blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, titmice, wrens, song sparrows, robins, mourning doves, a few gold finches, a couple of house finches, mockingbirds, downies, white breasted nuthatches, one catbird, and a hawk. The hawk has flown over the yard a couple of times, always being chased off by crows or robins.
6. Other wildlife...We have one small rabbit up on the hill, several squirrels, and a few chipmunks. The squirrels continue to "plant" walnuts in my flower pots and around my bushes and shrubs. Black bears are really becoming a problem in the county. Thankfully, we don't have them around the house. Our honey bees are doing great. I am fighting slugs tooth and nail this year. I think I am finally winning the fight! It has taken a while.
I need to close here. I don't want to tell you everything in one day. I know a lot of what I have written may seem trivial to some, but these are the things that make me happy...except the slugs.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are blessed with your own good memories.
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