Gone To The Birds

A few years back I spent untold hours
each evening

 watching a pair of eagles nest 

and eggs hatch and eaglets fledge
on a live feed.

I gasped each time one of them seemed

 perilously near the edge and 

nearly wept at the nest covered in snow and winds blowing

 so hard that my eyes would sting in sympathy..
When they were calling to each other,
Howie and Justice could hear them
 and they'd run in circles and bark.
Indoor exercise

To say I was obsessed is a gross understatement;
me and a couple hundred thousand others were the club.

I stumbled across these new guys through 

another world conservancy charitable group
 I help and now...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology 

remains #4 in my bookmark bar

I waited anxiously for this to arrive

bird of paradise project

and loved every minute..be sure to visit all the links

and marvel at the commitment of these men.

8 years 18 expeditions

It's only 4 minutes to watch this...

the big day 2012

big day 2013 is coming up in a few weeks

red tail hawks

and now I am addicted once more.

Meet Big Red and Ezra

red tail hawks

Reality TV
for real

Grab a cup of Joe,
your kids, your grand kids
 and marvel at this planet.

Sonja have some tea 

Z

Small Packages - St Anthony - Gifts

This fella decided to perch on a string of lights today

 just outside

the window above my kitchen sink...

he perched there for a long time....

left .....

returned and stayed a while longer

off and on

for hours

I decided that he liked his reflection in the glass.

He was less than 5 inches from the window and I watched his beak open and close, open and close as I stood directly in front of him

at the sink.

...and because I know some of you enjoy my

misadventures I will relate my latest.

The front yard was in dire need of a cleanup 

so yesterday I did just that, blowing an enormous pile of debris up and toward the garage door to be bagged.

Not wanting to blow it into the garage,

I hit the coded box and lowered the door.

Now that seems reasonable enough, 

but what you should know is that I have been having trouble with the code box for some time, and lately it has been working 

about 5% of the time.

the other 95% of the time was the hundreds of times

 I kept pounding

 those buttons to no avail.

Yep 104 degree heat and I am locked out.

 I failed to unlock any of the other doors 

into the house.

Do I have an extra emergency key?

yep, hidden INSIDE the garage..

phone, yep, took one INTO the garage..

Go to a neighbor and call a friend, the one

who has another spare key?

She has an unlisted number and I don't know it.

it is programmed into the phone..

INSIDE the garage.

90 minutes pass

90 MINUTES!!!!

hit the four digit code

repeat

code

repeat

code

repeat

Meanwhile I kept working

in between retreating to the shade of the backyard,

and smacking my forehead..

hard 

Now here is where my kids would do an eye roll

Said a very fervent prayer to St Anthony....

tried twice more 

and she rolled up easy peasy.

The best gifts come in small packages.

a hummingbird

an open door

not yet sixty

356 more days to go

but I am getting myself into more

misadventures than I'd like.

ah hell,

gives me somethin' to write about.

Z

Apples and Birdies

Joining Chania's photo challenge today.

Please go visit - hurry : D 

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Me.....always heading in a different direction.

Beth and I have been playing birdie tag.

Have a fabulous weekend all.

Suzan

All is right - right now

Ever have one of those days where you just love your kids

and your friends and they're all being so sweet and

wonderful and everyone

is in a pretty good place and you find yourself

just grinning like a goof for no reason?

Today is one of those days.

Sweet wonderful chats with both the kids;

friends on the phone and email all weekend about

the upcoming sale at my house.

Friends dropping off their treasures to sell and then

swapping out for other treasures from other gals.

Early bird shoppers coming by at all times of day for

the past three days and three friends coming over tomorrow to

help price and stage for another enormous garage/collectible sale at Z's.

Today, right this minute, all is right with my world.

I'm enjoying an ice filled, frosty glass of milk,

because my friend Carole and I were just emailing

about milk ( ? but true I swear!) and I started craving some.

I know things could change in an instant..

but right this minute I am gloriously happy and content.

My most heartfelt wishes that your world is also

turning well for you.

Suzan

Be sure and link over to Carole's blog

Brimfield treasures oh my!