Birdfeeders and unfinished journal page

This is the other bird feeder that E and A gave us. The birds seem to like it better than the other metal one they gave us.

This unique bird feeder was made by dad some years ago. It still works really well. It holds peanuts in the shell for chickadees and woodpeckers. 

We had a snow day today!! Hooray.  The reason for the snow day was not snowfall, but the intense cold. Kids could be hurt trying to walk to school. I just hope we do not have to make it up in the summer.

Here it is up close. Notice the moss growing around the base of it. I like moss.  It's pretty. And it was just too darn cold to stand there and wait for birds to light on the feeders to take a photo, but they were there in droves. Or flocks. Not herds.... There were an awful lot of birds. :)    Finches, Black Capped Chickadees, Downy woodpeckers, Goldfinches, Cardinals, Crows, Blue jays.

Notice the lichen on the top of the feeder.

This is a day to journal. So here is a beginning. Maybe I will show the finished product another day.

And I paired many socks today. And washed loads of laundry.

Book club tomorrow.

Thanks for commenting!! 

Love,

Berryblue

PS You know, I have never told anyone about this blog.  Funny.

Getting to bed early.

Reading his new book. Dave relaxes on a sunny winter's day. 

Dave with a book and his best friend. What more could you ask of life?

Dave adds delicious sunflower seeds to our new bird feeder.
The birds have been flocking to them.

I IIIIIWent to bed early last night and slept late this morning. 

This looks so cozy. They are pretty good friends. Car-pet and Mishka. 

These are those sprouts. We had eaten a lot of them but I kept watering or rinsing them and they continued to grow. Yum. Ah, the enzymes!



Well, that's all I have today, folks. Make a comment, okay?

A Winter day. January 3, 2015

Hello!

Hope this day was a good one for you!!! Did you get some fresh air? Dave made a track for me around our yard.
And speaking of our yard, often we have 3 or 4 deer eating under the bird feeders. They are so big. Really, I open  the screen door, not expecting to see them, and whoa, they seem like horses! Then when Mishka flies out of the house to chase them away she seems so small.  They run, but are not in too big of a hurry to get away from her. She is so small, she doesn't scare them.

 Dave and I visited today with a friend of ours.  He told stories of borrowing his dad's tools, as a kid, and losing them or getting in trouble because he used a screwdriver as a chisel and mashed it so it was unusable.  Now he is a dad of two kids and he says he's wondering how he will handle the tool borrowing thing himself.  He is our son's age and his smile reminds me of my cousin. With lines all around his eyes and face. A great smile. He often calls Dave throughout the week just to talk. His wife is a friend of mine.Their kids are little. She comes to the book club. They live near us and I think the guy is a bit like Dave when he was that age. 


C and R and E and A went to a Raptor Center today. It is like a bird sanctuary. 

This is Berryblue, somewhere in the north, signing out for now.
Stay warm.

Ten four.
Over and out.

P.S. Here is my new coat. It is very light and soft. Not heavy at all.

No, I didn't hear you say anything about the Michelin Man, C.!  :)

Happy New Year, 2015!

From Eric and Angela we got bird feeders. Here they are. Super well put together and made of metal!

And Dave got a book of Korean history from Cass. It is quite fascinating. It's written by scribes in the Chosun Dynasty. The scribes had to write whatever happened to the king. If they changed what they wrote they could be put to death. So once a king fell off his horse and he asked the scribe to not include that in the writing but the scribe recorded that he fell off his horse and that he asked that it not be recorded. How about living in a fish bowl! I'm glad I'm a commoner.

Another subject.😳 I just learned that George Washington Broth has MSG! Oh my! What MSG does is get the adrenals working too hard! But to add insult to injury I also just found out that Special K cereal has high fructose corn syrup and that works the adrenals extra hard for nothing also! Here I thought my Special K loaf was good for you!

I will adjust the recipe and find a decent cereal without high fructose corn syrup! Ugh. So, instead if George Washington Broth, I guess I will use any variety of Bill's Best vegan, gluten free seasoning.

Dave and I just watched The Rifle Man and Superman on television. During the five minute commercials Dave surfed a few other stations. One of them had Seinfeld.

In The Rifle Man the hero fought and won against evil in the form of selfish and cruel foes.  He also recited a quick synopsis of the book of Job to his son. This served to give both Rifleman and son courage for their upcoming trials. 
Superman rescued a man who was hanging on to a rope attached to a blimp that had come loose from its moorings. The man's life was saved. In contrast, witty and laughable as it is, in Seinfeld, you see weak grown men being happy when they have fooled their "friends". And they exhibit rude behavior meant to be funny, but for kids soaking it up, it concerns me. Kids under 8 years of age don't know what is real yet.  I can be too serious, but what kind of sincerity, honesty and integrity is modeled?  Consider the difference in messages each generation has absorbed after countless such examples.  By beholding what are the babies and children of today learning?

Also, I do not know how to answer any comments, so, otherwise I would. Sorry. But I will keep working on it.

Sprouts!

Sunday, the sprouts were started to soaking. Overnight.
Monday, they were drained and rinsed often.
Tuesday, today, I have been rinsing them frequently. Here is a picture.

They have grown a lot.
Cassie bought the seed at the coop so I don't know exactly what they are. Something exotic I am guessing. I told her I wanted alphalfa but it is not only that. We will see.


 I snapped a pic of Mishka and Dave's foot.

And, by the way, isn't it a good feeling to have the dishes done at the end of a day!

Good Night.

A Giraffe, a Horse, a Lion and a Sun. A Rich History. December 29, 2014

A changing table was made by Carl and Mae for Sharon. A generation later they made this changing table modeled after Sharon's for my baby, Eric. Now Eric and Angela will use it for their baby who is due in April.

Here is a picture of the changing table that Dad made for Eric when he was born. It has pictures that I drew when I was seven years of age carved into the wood. Sharon was a tiny baby and they needed a changing table. But Mom and Dad wanted it to be personalized.  So they asked me to draw something that they could carve onto the changing table that they were making for little Sharon. So, feeling happy that my parents valued something my second grade self made, I drew a horse, a sun, a lion, and a giraffe. 

So here are a few pictures of the changing table that I carried up the stairs from the basement yesterday to prepare for our new little light of our lives. 

 I scrubbed it down and used some steel wool to spruce it up a little. I just love the generational history.

A happy lion.

New subject:

I soaked mung beans overnight, then this afternoon pressure cooked them with rice. Mmmmm. Here they are soaking.

Tomorrow I will add another picture of the sprouts we have going. Here they are just getting started.

Good night.

Gratitude practice and our new kitten

I dunno, this one is sorta crazy but I like it. Any suggestions?

I used a gloss medium for gluing and for the same purpose used Golden soft gel medium (matte). For glueing I like the gloss medium better.
I may cover the whole thing with the gloss medium.
Enjoyed using the oil based gold sharpie paint pen. It was fun.

Then I just want to show you my kitten. She is sweet. She just appeared at our house meowing loudly and insistently in October. I could not even find her the first day. But when I came home from work the next day she was still crying soooo loud. So I searched and saw her hiding. She was so afraid and hungry. So the next day Dave got her some food and she has lived outside in our garage ever since. But I do invite her in our house often because she is so sweet, and she is a personality. A bit aggressive and not used to being around people a lot.

Tomorrow she visits the vet and we will see what she thinks. I'd like to find her a home where she could live inside all the time. It's so dangerous out there with wild animals and cars and trucks.