Bird Watching!

This is the feeder we watch when we sit in the gazebo with our morning coffee.

I LOVE the purple finches - or house finches as they are also called.

We have TONS of birds flock to our feeders! Two in the back yard and two in the front.

We also put out TONS of feed!

We buy 40 pound sacks and store it in painted galvanized trash cans!

I love birdsong and the fact that the birds eat their weight in insects make our time outside all the more enjoyable! We have house sparrows, song sparrows - ALL kinds of sparrows in addition to various kinds of wrens including the Carolina Wren which sings 'tea kettle tea kettle tea kettle! Warblers visit and we have an occasional black capped chickadee - which I am assuming are only on their way north. We enjoy watching the blue jays and cardinals and robins - none of which come to feeders as a rule. We have a woodpecker family in the big elm tree towering over the gazebo

. The birds all LOVE the large dead tree branch that is cradled in the crook of my next door neighbor's 'trash tree.' No one will remove it because it is home to so many bird families! I call it a 'trash tree' because it's one of those trees the birds plant I guess. Left to itself our yard would become a forest if I didn't pull up all the tree seedlings! We also have our fair share of grackles, cowbirds, and crows. Louis Dean says to just leave them alone.....they still eat bugs!

After our coffee and Bible time I read a chapter from whatever book we are in.

This is my favorite time of the day.

I went to Fort Worth today to see my Mother! It had been going on two months since I had last seen her!!

She is 87 years old (I think!) so I do not want to miss spending time with her.

We had a great time together! Lunch at the Red Lobster - our favorite! Then we did a little shopping at the local Dollar General Store. After that we settled down in the kitchen and I showed her all the pics and videos from Amber and their quadruplets! She was EXCITED!!

Mother had a stroke several years ago and doesn't remember things like she used to.

She thought Amber had ONE girl - not THREE!!

She said, "I THOUGHT it was three MEN! Not WOMEN!" For whatever reason her brain gets the men/women but not the girl/boy thing!

I am home now and I won't tell you who went with me to have a mani/pedi this afternoon!

I PROMISED!

I have to get busy with some housework because we have an appointment with the TV tonight!

Dallas was one of Louis Dean's all time favorite TV programs!

It makes its return debut TONIGHT!!

While I never watched the original series - I am SO ready to join LD!

Looks like FUN to me!!

And JUST when I thought I had NO new news about the Quad Squad.......

Amber JUST this moment posted on Facebook!

So I will close this post with the latest update!

Here is Harrison wearing his shades today! He got his chest tube out today and the hole from the previous one on his other side is almost healed. His vitals are good, they've weaned his morphine some more, and he's completely off the nitric oxide. He may even get to come off the ventilator soon and move to something less intense. Loving the progress, he's such a fighter!