June 1, 2010

I was up by 6:00 am and looking forward to a cup of coffee and as I do every day when I get up, I opened the deck blinds. This day I see a bird fluttering above the door trying to get his bird nest building crap back to the area I cleared out yesterday. Seems like "the war is on" - again! I also noticed that the feeder was again "hit" and there were remnants of it on the ground! What creature is doing this???

Aside from the bird construction, I did enjoy the chirping birds (most likely they were just angry and yelling at me). I watched a deer at the easement until Carlo spilled bird seed all over and made noises to scare him away. I knocked down some hornet nests and some bee hives and one was occupied...eek!

There were caterpillars everywhere. The hummingbirds continue to return every year and after filling the feeder with fresh (obviously high potent) juice, the feeding bird rammed into the window and was dazed and he fell to the deck. He was down for a good minute - that's gotta be two years in the life of a hummingbird!

Carlo worked on his chain saw - although our plan to cut up trees is being put on hold with fingers crossed that the tree cutting guys will see the fallen tree and chop it up for us. If they don't, it'll be there next time...who's gonna steal a dead tree? It would have to be someone really really strong!

Goals for the day:

fix mower

cut grass

move fireplace stone off porch

sweep porch

put rug on porch

put table on porch

put new candle out

BBQ hot dogs

cut more grass

watch OLTL & GH

go to Bud's

So, here's the 12:30 chore check-up list:

fix mower - CHECK

cut grass - CHECK

move fireplace stone off porch - CHECK (and it only took about 1 hour, resting included)

sweep porch - CHECK

put rug on porch - CHECK

put table on porch - CHECK

put new candle out - CHECK

BBQ hot dogs - CHECK (yummy)

cut more grass - CHECK (one of us, anyway)

watch OLTL & GH - CHECK

visit Paul and Betty - not on the original list, but - CHECK

All that's left are showers and a visit to Bud's ~ so ~ CHECK CHECK - Havlicek (hee hee)!!!

What a productive day.

Dinner was great (of course) and on our way back we spotted several deer along the way - and they spotted us too. When we got back, we hung our crazy expensive shepherd hook and some spirals we bought with my gift card from Edgewater Greenhouse. Then we watched a little TV, primarily a new O'Wich channel and of course, there was nothing on! But the channel has the potential to be a good crime show channel. Stay tuned!

Here's the before and after of the porch - and one with the lights on: