afternoon birds and shadows...

good morning...

had some visitors yesterday afternoon...

3 crows dropped by briefly...

they are a noisy bird...

and then the snow birds came with a new one...

and they fight over those feeding holes...

such a frenzy going on out there...

and the doves with the new one...

its very tiny, as small as the snowbirds...

maybe a little smaller...

and I have no idea what it is...

UPDATE:   its a dark eyed junco- another little sparrow

a new on for here...

and the shadows came as the sun started down...

we had a new bag of bird feed to open...

so I transferred it to a big plastic jug as DH went to fill up the feeders...

we wore our hoodies...

it wasn't as warm as it had been...

a new male cardinal...

he is very small, too...

either born very late last year or through the winter...

we had some 60s-70s in December...

either way, lucky to have made it through the nasty winter...

got up at 2:30 this morning...

I did not feel right...

so I tested my blood...

been checking it ever since...

I am running between 276 and 318...

I cannot do dairy, lactose thing...

but it also jacks up my blood sugar...

normally carry low blood sugar...

I have been having some major tummy troubles taking all this cold medicine...

so I got some yogurt to get things normal again...

and I have been doing 2 a day...

and lots of juice...

and peanut butter for some reason...

if the Type 2 was back, what I ate before bed last night would have killed me...

so I am not worried about that...

just will take today to get it in a normal range...

prayers are welcome that it does it before noon...

;)

I so wasn't paying attention in class!

after all of that stuff that we got the night before melted...

this started happening again...

and this is what we had before it got dark...

surprised me!

I have the dunce cap on and I am sitting in the corner today...

I am home alone again today, so trying to work on some individual shots of the birds this morning...

he is a very young one...

and they all seem to get along together...

but this morning, I spotted a bit of orange...

oriole...

got a pair...

and after the starlings head to another part of the neighborhood, the snow birds come back...

I do like the feeder closer...

its about 15 feet nearer to the kitchen window now...

got to get these shots in before it warms up...

the cats will be out there when that happens and not so many birds...

I made time this morning to clean out some of my drawers...

so when the mood strikes me, I can find stuff...

got a load of laundry in...

eating some soup right now...

cleaned off the desk, the printer and the book cases...

dried off one of the babies...

he was playing duck in the water bowl...

so we talked about the differences between a duck and a cat while I towel dried little feet and a round belly...

Craig named him waffles, so maybe he heard waddles and just assumed?

maybe a no swimming sign above the water bowl...

I actually think he was embarrassed when he did it...

the others were sitting there watching and gave him the look of  'hey, dude, that's not right'...

and he took off and hid...

someone is sniffing my toes...

got my flip flops on...

and not sure if I told you or not...

but I did shave my legs last week...

donated it to locks of love...

no more gorilla legs!

;)

we got that four letter word again...

it happened again!

it started out with rain and thankfully, what they said we would get...

didn't happen here...

yep, they were wrong...

just a dusting after the rain switched over...

Daphne was not impressed with it at all...

it didn't last but a few hours and it is completely gone now...

how my son folded my nightgowns...

and how I fold them...

I knew the moment he bent over what was coming my way...

sent him out to move the one bird feeder...

and Mr Rabbit...

I think he likes it there...

oh, here comes another one...

I have a pet peeve I would like to rant about now...

see how many baby aspirin are in the brand new bottle?

and they came in a 3 pack...

and what they all look like in one bottle...

could I save this company money?

der...

ok. rant over...

the birds had no trouble finding the feeder...

the two in the middle are not the same...

they have brown tips on their wings...

and there are many of them...

just like in the hitchcock movie...

glad mine are here just for the bugs...

made a meat loaf and fried potatoes for tomorrow...

DH is going to be driving right by Burger King on his was home from PT...

so that's what we are doing for supper...

Craig has the day off, so he is cleaning...

have to keep prodding him along...

hope you are having a fun and productive day...

I am taking another nap...

still trying to get caught up from last night....

;)

what a wonderful afternoon...

we hit at least 72F here yesterday...

and you can see the trees are starting to bud...

I did get to spend some time out there...

just sitting in the sunshine...

loving the clouds that don't have snow in them...

plenty of shadows with an afternoon sun...

I sure hope you had some of this...

I sat on the deck for only just a bit...

I wanted out in the sun...

got my walks in, too...

just soaked up the outdoor sounds...

and sights...

Bebe waiting for papa...

getting so bored wearing the brace...

sees the dr again neck week for another xray to see how things are coming along...

he has pt today at the hospital after work...

its 3:00 in the morning here...

and I am finally going to head back to bed...

thunder storms started around 10pm and have been going ever since...

so far, its still rain...

and it has poured...

some the thunder shook me right out of bed...

every creature we have was up and not happy...

so, I have been up baby sitting so the guys can sleep...

they are settled down right now, so I am sneaking off to bed!

;)

there will probably be snow when I get up again...