I have an affinity for birds. I am facinated by them and enjoy watching them. I'm not what you would call a 'bird watcher' with binoculars and a membership in a 'bird watching' organization. I just like to observe the birds. I do have bird feeders and bird houses and bushes that attract birds and some that accomodate them as building sites for their nests. I particularly like humming birds and have a very unique humming bird feeder that Gregg got for me. I like to think that the birds know that I'm their friend. If the feeders run out of food they all chirp and 'yell' at me if I step out onto the porch. They are not shy about coming around when I am sitting out on the deck. The doves will even walk right past my feet as I sit there.
I have a book that helps me identify the birds that do come to the feeders and houses. I am pleased when a rare bird stops in for a bite to eat when it is migrating. I make note of the time and date so that I can look for it again the next trip through. I have a "Bird Inn" you might say.
I've won some money a few times at the Track because if I'm at the track and a horse with 'Bird' in it's name is running, I bet on it. You may recall an Oaks winner a few years ago that had Bird in its name and Derby 136 had Mine That Bird with fantastic odds, and another Bird, I believe Summer Bird, showed in that race and I came out with over $300.00. Good Birds!
Occasionally a bird mistakes my glass door for free air and flies into the door with quite a crash. I think they are kamikaze birds,I hate dealing with the little corpses; on one occasion a bird hit the door with it's wings spread out and left an imprint on the door glass that resembled the Holy Spirit! (Or could it have been the Holy Spirit paying me a visit?) There was no corpse left behind! Mayabe that was bird rapture day!
A bird seems to think that my mail box would make a good nesting place. Every day I've had to clean the makings of a nest, out of the mail box. I finally told JoAnne about it and she said that Jay loved devising things to thwart the wild animals from infringing. He put an elaborate devise on the box and now the mail man has to unhook a hook to put the mail in and then re-hook the door of the box. (I considered just putting the recycle bin out there and telling the mail man to just drop the mail in there. It would save me a trip.)
On Monday I was not having one of my better days, the electricity had gone off and it wasn't even storming, the CO warning devise was bleeping every 30 seconds and I could not figure out how to make it quit nor could I figure out why I had no power. I came down to find LG&E's number so I could call and report the outage and discovered a baby bird trying to fly out of its nest above my kitchen window. Its little foot was caught and it kept trying and trying but became exhausted with the effort and would stop and rest for awhile and then try again. I could not reach it because the nest hangs from the eave so I called Jay and JoAnne and asked for assistance with all my problems. We never did get the bleeping bleeper to stop, we had to take the battery out and abandon that task, Jay got the electricity back on, I don't know how or why it was off and then he tackled the task of setting the bird free. JoAnne and I watched while he climbed up on a stool and loosened the chain that was holding the foot. The bird flew up when it was freed and scared all of us. Fortunately, Jay did not fall, the bird was crippled but managed to get away and all was well again.
I bought two tomato plants to plant in containers on the deck. I am tired of the store bought tomatoes and hope to grow some 'real' tomatoes. I planted the smaller of the two plants and kept the other one in the house until I can get the necessary items to plant it. The planted one was only about 4 or 5 inches tall and I had it in a clay pot... for one day! A squirrell had breakfast the next morning! He dug the plant up and ate the roots. Poor plant never had a chance! I'm holding off on the other plant until I can get to Home Depot and get some screen or something to ward off the tomato invador!
Today there was an "on the scene" reporter on the news at 6 AM when I turned on the TV. He was very animated because he was reporting on some deer that had found their way into downtown Louisville, on Chestnut Street. As he and his camera man approached the deer, one of them GROWLED at him. He was astonished. He kept saying,"I didn't know deer growled!" Who knew?
Life is not only curiouser and curiouser it is also tediouser and tediouser. Ciao
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