Sarah sent new pictures of our boys. They are getting so big!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
A Sad Story
Dear Sarah,
Today's blog entry isn't quite so happy. Yesterday morning I took a picture of our eggs on the front porch to see if any of them had hatched. Nope, still four intact eggs.
Look, they've moved again!
When Puppa came home yesterday afternoon he said it looked like one of the eggs had fallen from the nest. Sometimes a mother bird will sense that an egg isn't quite right and kick it out of the nest.
Do you see the little specks of the blue shell? Remember, you can click the mouse on the picture to make it bigger.
I decided to take a picture of the three remaining eggs but this is what I saw instead.
Just one little egg was left. Then I remembered that around noon I saw a big crow land on the porch rail. A crow is a very, very big black bird. I remembered it because I have never seen a crow in my yard before.
I wonder if that big old crow robbed the nest. Sometimes birds will eat the eggs of another. That sounds so mean but that's how nature works. Everything is food for something else. Here's what a crow looks like. You can't tell how big it is from the picture but it was about as long as your arm.
I guess the crow solved the problem of how on earth four baby birds were going to grow up in that tiny nest. Remember how big the two babies got last year? I'll find the picture so you can see them again.
Two hatchlings barely fit in the nest
I checked the nest in the tree this morning and found two little blue eggs safe and sound and the mother bird threatening to poke my eyes out so I better leave them alone now.
I'm glad you had such a great time at the beach! I can't wait to hear about it next week.
Love,
Ms. Carol
Today's blog entry isn't quite so happy. Yesterday morning I took a picture of our eggs on the front porch to see if any of them had hatched. Nope, still four intact eggs.
Look, they've moved again!When Puppa came home yesterday afternoon he said it looked like one of the eggs had fallen from the nest. Sometimes a mother bird will sense that an egg isn't quite right and kick it out of the nest.
Do you see the little specks of the blue shell? Remember, you can click the mouse on the picture to make it bigger.I decided to take a picture of the three remaining eggs but this is what I saw instead.
Just one little egg was left. Then I remembered that around noon I saw a big crow land on the porch rail. A crow is a very, very big black bird. I remembered it because I have never seen a crow in my yard before.
I wonder if that big old crow robbed the nest. Sometimes birds will eat the eggs of another. That sounds so mean but that's how nature works. Everything is food for something else. Here's what a crow looks like. You can't tell how big it is from the picture but it was about as long as your arm.
I guess the crow solved the problem of how on earth four baby birds were going to grow up in that tiny nest. Remember how big the two babies got last year? I'll find the picture so you can see them again.
Two hatchlings barely fit in the nestI checked the nest in the tree this morning and found two little blue eggs safe and sound and the mother bird threatening to poke my eyes out so I better leave them alone now.
I'm glad you had such a great time at the beach! I can't wait to hear about it next week.
Love,
Ms. Carol
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Robins in the Hood
Dear Sarah E.,
I couldn't wait a whole week to share my news with you. There have been some little changes in the nests in our yard that I thought you would be curious about.
First, look at the nest in the willow tree to see if you can find the momma robin. You can click on the picture to make it really big so you can see better. Only her tail feathers stick out of the nest. I thought that was neat.
Remember Friday afternoon we only found one little egg in the nest in the tree?
Monday I took another picture and found two eggs! I'll keep watching. Maybe there will be more yet.
Oh, another thing, in the nest on the porch light there are four eggs. I have taken several pictures of them so that I will know when they hatch. After viewing the pictures I noticed something really strange going on.
Look at each picture of the four eggs.
Notice how the eggs are in different positions in each picture?
How do you think they are moving around? I haven't touched them and Puppa hasn't touched them. I haven't even let Noah get close to them! So how are they moving around?
I had to call Nana the Great. Nana says that the mother bird rolls the eggs around. I guess so that they get done "over easy" or maybe it's so that the porch light doesn't cook the little baby's left wing to it's beak.
P.S. Are you sure you don't want me to scramble the eggs for your breakfast one day? If so, we should probably do it pretty soon or they may taste a little feathery. Eeeeewww! Ha ha
You and your family have a wonderful week!
Love,
Ms. Carol
I couldn't wait a whole week to share my news with you. There have been some little changes in the nests in our yard that I thought you would be curious about.
First, look at the nest in the willow tree to see if you can find the momma robin. You can click on the picture to make it really big so you can see better. Only her tail feathers stick out of the nest. I thought that was neat.
Remember Friday afternoon we only found one little egg in the nest in the tree?
Monday I took another picture and found two eggs! I'll keep watching. Maybe there will be more yet.
Oh, another thing, in the nest on the porch light there are four eggs. I have taken several pictures of them so that I will know when they hatch. After viewing the pictures I noticed something really strange going on.
Look at each picture of the four eggs.
Notice how the eggs are in different positions in each picture?
How do you think they are moving around? I haven't touched them and Puppa hasn't touched them. I haven't even let Noah get close to them! So how are they moving around?
I had to call Nana the Great. Nana says that the mother bird rolls the eggs around. I guess so that they get done "over easy" or maybe it's so that the porch light doesn't cook the little baby's left wing to it's beak.
P.S. Are you sure you don't want me to scramble the eggs for your breakfast one day? If so, we should probably do it pretty soon or they may taste a little feathery. Eeeeewww! Ha ha
You and your family have a wonderful week!
Love,
Ms. Carol
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Scale Back Alabama
Thursday, January 28th I was talked into signing up and weighing in for the Scale Back Alabama challenge. Laura had a team of four, I was going to enter as an individual. Turns out individuals couldn't enter, only teams of four. I hooked up with another teamless couple and Laura called her cousin to make a fourth.
The first week I lost nothing, N-O-T-H-I-N-G, nothing. I tried so hard! Laura and I walked every day it was not raining and ate everything right but no results. So I decided to buy a pill.
I chose Quick Trim Burn and Cleanse. A box with two bottles in it. One Iso-Burn, the other Iso-Cleanse. The instructions said to take two doses of each at particular times of the day. Burn fat by day and cleanse by night the box boasted.
About six hours after the third dose I started becoming CLEANSEd. I crapped my insides out for an hour and a half or so and when I was done my FAT a$$ was BURNing.
So, I guess it worked? Though I expected the burn part to work a little differently. I did lose a couple of pounds over night.
Good luck to all you Alabamians scaling back!
The first week I lost nothing, N-O-T-H-I-N-G, nothing. I tried so hard! Laura and I walked every day it was not raining and ate everything right but no results. So I decided to buy a pill.
I chose Quick Trim Burn and Cleanse. A box with two bottles in it. One Iso-Burn, the other Iso-Cleanse. The instructions said to take two doses of each at particular times of the day. Burn fat by day and cleanse by night the box boasted.
About six hours after the third dose I started becoming CLEANSEd. I crapped my insides out for an hour and a half or so and when I was done my FAT a$$ was BURNing.
So, I guess it worked? Though I expected the burn part to work a little differently. I did lose a couple of pounds over night.
Good luck to all you Alabamians scaling back!
Friday, January 08, 2010
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Happy New year to every one!
Oh look! I finally finished painting the play loft and it's great.
Now, what to play?
Now, what to play?
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Reception (Wedding Part IV)
And the reception . . .
My parents and my sister
My husband and my father-in-law
Good friends!
Cindy, my friend for 30 years and five months and counting. you just don't find friends like these every day.
Laura and Dave with his parents
This was a neat idea. Instead of a guest book, Laura found this picture frame at Bed Bath and Beyond for everybody to sign. It will get much more attention in the future than a traditional guest book. Did I mention there was nothing traditional about Laura?
Every picture of me is of my butt.
Here's that cute little guy again.
Why was the cake not white?
What's that look?
That's better.
Somebody suggested we put Warren and Parker in the limo. I can't wait to find out who got pics of that. My batteries died.
My parents and my sister
My husband and my father-in-law
Good friends!
Cindy, my friend for 30 years and five months and counting. you just don't find friends like these every day.
Laura and Dave with his parents
This was a neat idea. Instead of a guest book, Laura found this picture frame at Bed Bath and Beyond for everybody to sign. It will get much more attention in the future than a traditional guest book. Did I mention there was nothing traditional about Laura?
Every picture of me is of my butt.
Here's that cute little guy again.
Why was the cake not white?
What's that look?
That's better.
Somebody suggested we put Warren and Parker in the limo. I can't wait to find out who got pics of that. My batteries died.
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