Chickens in the Road Forum

 Hubby was able to put out his larger bird feeder this morning and already the birds are flocking to the feeder. I also had a large jar of spanish peanuts that have been in the pantry for much too long, the furry critters are enjoying them. It is fun to watch them from my kitchen window.

 We have a beautiful yellow bird visiting us, it sits in a little hanging planter on the porch and pecks at the soil in the pot, it looks like a finch but is smaller, I don’t know what it is, but it is beautiful and fun to watch.

 Looking out of our kitchen window, there is snow as far as the eye can see. Back in the fall when I was pulling out flowers, a begonia fell out of the trash bag and about a week later I found it. It looked alive so I put it into some soil and then placed it in our plant window in the kitchen along with my pineapple plant and a lonely geranium. I had to take them out of the window and give them a place on the kitchen counter until the weather warms again, the begonia is going nicely, she has 2 pretty pink blooms, so nice to see in the weather.

     I am a very early riser and this morning when I opened the blinds it was barley light and very overcast but I could see 3 deer in the orchard, it appeared to be a doe with her young, such a beautiful way to start the day, it has been well over a year since we have seen them in the orchard. Due to the winds we have had lately several apples are on the ground, and I am always happy to see that because I know that increases the chances they may pay us a visit.

   Since we are expecting the tree man soon, I had to find a new place to hang to humming bird feeder. Many years ago I inherited a iron stand that looked sort of like a bird cage holder. I have been using it on the covered back porch to hold a hanging plant, I removed the plant and replaced it with the feeder—perfect! I don’t know why I have not done this sooner, I can place to stand right in front of the kitchen window and watch those little beauties as they feed. I could watch for hours.

 I can see much more out of kitchen window than we could a couple days ago. The tree man was here yesterday and took out 5 trees, 3 of them quite large. I hate to cut down trees when they are still alive but these we starting to threat the house and with a severe wind thy could break and do some major damage, I felt so bad for the crew because of the weather, it was so very hot and humid as is the case today, we suggested they wait a week but they wanted to do the work. We have a large covered back porch with a fan, and we set out 2 more fans on tables along with a cooler full of cold drinks, I felt to sorry for them to do such hard work on a day like it was, today will be the same type of oppressive weather and then it is supposed to cool day and rain—looking forward to that!