#10 I haven't blogged for a long while - because it has been raining and my job has kept me busy and I've been perfecting my barbequing and I've been video chatting with grand-boys and thinking about making bird houses!
#9 Mom, Dad and Sherry came down for the long weekend and I wanted all my plants to be at their peak while they were here. You can't make deals with mother nature - she has a timing of her own.
This plant bloomed 3 weeks before.
These bloomed 3 days after they left.
#8 You can't cook too much on the grill. Ribs and chicken - life is good!
#7 It was a little rainy and cool but who can stop hard core birders?
My back yard is the place to bird...it's not bragging if it's true...right?
Watch out for birding neck strain.
#6 My Dad is my role model for patience. We went birding in a park and Dad walked...sat...looked...and dare I say...enjoyed himself as we birded.
If Mom is enjoying herself...Dad is too! He is my role model!
#5 Don't believe everything you see. Is it a yellow breasted bird? Does the black extend down it's breast?...stay with me here...chased this bird all around the park...twice! Is it a Scott's Oriel? Took a picture...zoomed in...yellow? Orange? Just another Baltimore Oriel? These are things that true birders want to get to the bottom of.
I don't know...you tell me!
#4 Cindy wanted to see a Purple Martian last year for the Big Year. We didn't get one. So Mom, Dad, Sherry and I went birding Monday at Pioneers Park...and what did we see? A Purple Martian? Cindy stayed home to work on her homework. When we told her we saw a Purple Martian...she was both skeptical and disappointed. So being the good husband I am, and Sherry - the outstanding birder she is - we went back out to the park. And Wo-la...Purple Martin.
They actually posed for Cindy. She shared the picture with her birding friend at work.
#3 Sherry - actually has a threshold of birding! We met it by going out a second time to get the Purple Martin. Didn't know we could wear Sherry out!
#1 Life is a great adventure...when you share it with the ones you love!
