Saturday, July 16, 2011

Bird Nests

I read in a magazine this week that it is illegal to keep bird nests...Of course, they eliminate the grackles and sparrows...I am glad or I would be in jail...LOL...I love to find them laying on the ground after a wind storm. The Grackles have finally moved on from our huge pine tree in the front yard...the wind kept blowing down their nests.
I have them neatly lined up on the porch where I can see them every day.


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I think they look better with birds in them....
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The bullfrog is still alive...he stays in the water most of the time. I have been feeding him some dry dog food, drop a few in the water at night....
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My flowers live as long as I remember to pour on the water. They dry out so quickly in the heat. I love flowers......PhotobucketPhotobucket

White and Pink Caladiums

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Kolanche


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Fern

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Dapper and Shasta Daisy
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Still busy canning and dehydrating....apricot jam for winter time, dehydrated apricots for oatmeal and snacks....
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Still have a few tomatoes...so good crushed up in salad.
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And check out this darling find at a craft show...got a hammer ? Got a file ?

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

The Baby Bird

We had terrible winds a couple weeks ago. When we came home from church, several bird nests were blown out of the big Pine tree in the fron of the house, and only one little grackle survived. We tried to put it in a bird house, but the birds would have nothing to do with it......Finally, Benny came up with the idea to put up a flower container in the tree to see if that would work....and it did ! Momma bird took care of baby, and now they have all moved away to Grackleville....LOL

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I don't know how I end up with all these little creatures to worry about, am so glad they have gone somewhere else......

Dapper, The Frog Dog

June was a scortchingly hot month...now we have the next two hot months to try to make it through. The drought and fires have charred so much of Texas. The garden is gone, cooked completely. The grasshoppers are eating all the blossoms off my jalapeno peppers........but we do have some tomatoes ! I have dehydrated some, so we will have good stews this winter. The onion crop is finished, but we are thankful for what we do have....
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The dogs kept barking and barking...I went outside and tried to find what was the problem.....Dapper had uncovered a huge bullfrog when he was digging a hole to lie down in....
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We were on our way to a family reunion, so I took the big frog and put him in one of my flower pots, covered him with dirt, and poured water in it for moisture. When we came home, the frog was back in the hole in the dog pen and did not want to share with Dapper. In desperation, I put him in a dog crate with water and food. The next day, as I started to feed him, he jumped out, hopped away from me, and I could NOT FIND HIM....another crisis...he would dry up without any water. After missing for two days, Benny left Dapper out of the pen, and he tracked him down. Benny caught him, so now he is back in the dog crate and being fed and watered.
I asked Benny, "What do we call him ?"...."Ribbet ?"....to which he laughed at me and told me I knew nothing about frogs...so meet the new member.....
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Jump and Run !! LOL