New Garden Projects #6

besides i did not even spell i right :)

Shock! ^_^

i'm on the phone
what's your excuse for all lower case

just on more key i could miss with my fingers

You mis keys too?
Me too!
Your too fast - - - your too good!

all the time and then i get falsely abused for spelling mistakes be NY wise guy's and some canucks too

Sure - blame the keys.

Its a tough life out there.
You know who you are.Just stay strong

can't blame the keys - its the fat fingers and/or timing on their movements and the brain are out of sync

I'll be 74 in January and believe me its just the beginning.
The worst part is I'm aware of it and every year there is a little slippage in the brain gears, this started in my late 60's so you have time.

Shoot, I started my downhill slippery slope in my 40s!! Although I don't make a lot of spelling mistakes. It's everything else....

Yeah, I sort of fell apart at 50! That's why collecting rocks is a fun hobby---no mistakes!

Yeh, mindless sensory activities are best (playing with orchids, sticking my hands up to the elbows in dirt).

My body starting rebelling in my mid-30's! Back and knee.

WOW You guys are really in bad shape.
My body started to go bad at 50.
Had hips replaced at 68.
Its the lost mind that bothers me most.
No short term memory, impulsive decissions,Unable to keep more than one task at a time in myhead and,
I forgot LOL

Including impulsive gardening decisions?!!

Bill, that's a great project you have going on. I think you should stick with Rolling Stone though, and we can call you Papa. Am I dating myself ?

Thats so funny.
I had forgotten that song.
Yes impulsive gardening decissions.
Remember the false start for the RU at Louises?
I reserved in June for a event in Sept? Panicked when I didnt think I could get a refund.
It all worked out in the end but I had a month of Angst until the refund came through.

venu - no papa - you are dating me (did that come out right?)

I doubt it Wha.
Looks strange unless the reader reads the above posts

^_^

"Papa was a rolling stone, where ever he laid his hat was his home and when he died all he left us was alone." Dating myself too i guess.

I dated myself. Ended up dumping me.

This is getting into dangerous territory.
My bird houses are done.
This was the most successful one

Is that ever beautious ge! Its a taj mahal for birdies ^_^ What birdies are you hoping for?

Chickadees or Wrens. NO sparrows

Great house. Can I move in?? Might hafta get a bigger door.

I'm SO with you ge. The Wild Bird Store is 2 blocks from me with multitoudinous sparrow feeders. Little did I know at the time so I put out a feeder with millet the first year we bought the house and there had to be 200 sparrows in the garden! Finches nowhere to be seen. I now have a large open feeder with corn and sunflower seeds for the bluejays and chickadees and a finch feeder with niger seed for the finches and redpolls. No sparrows now and we are all very happy! Chick and Dee made a nest by burrowing into my neighbour Anne's spruce tree this spring which was very exciting. The babys got so used to me that they come to the feeder when I'm right there rather than waiting in the tree or the fence til I walk by. I'm not sure that's a good thing but the baby robins (nest every year in the garden) bop around me when I'm planting in the spring so I guess they have discussed it and decided that I am bird friendly ^_^

Wonderful birdhouse, Jo Anne! I just love them! You're so talented!

I get a lot of birds nesting here, too, Cousin Nut. Some in our birdhouses, some in trees. I have cardinals every year, as well as cat birds and robins. Had 2 wrens using birdhouses this year. Never see sparrows nesting here. I have a friend who gets them all the time. I get a lot of squirrels, too, unfortunately.

Karen

O sigh Cousin Nut I am constantly battling the truly evil Damien the Spawn of Satan Tree Rat :( I am greeen about your cardinals. We don't have them here. They used to nest in the cedars in the house where I grew up.

I have seen Baltimore Oriels here, but I think they only pass through. They never seem to nest at my place. The mother cardinal is always attacking her image in my car's mirrors, so when I'm parked at home I have to keep plastic bags on the mirrors to keep her from pecking them and pooping all over the side of the car!

Karen

Too funny Cousin Nut! When we moved here a male robin took issue to me dancing around so much while they were nesting and did major dumps on my softtop. We were mortal enemys that spring. He sat on the fence and gave me the evil eye and I called him really bad names while I cleaned up my car. But by the time the babies fledged, he was teaching them to follow me around cuz I dig up worms go figure. My car has never been dumped on since. I think sometimes its hard with spacing with nesting. If you have some birds nesting in your garden others won't. I've always been hoping for the finches to nest. But with robins and chickadees I think its just too busy.

I think orioles must nest in our woods as they do like eating tulip poplar seeds next to the house.

LOL! Funny! That female cardinal has been nesting here quite a few years now. I had shiny hubcaps of my car one year, and she kept attacking her image in them, as well as the mirrors.

Karen

O how luvly irisMA.

I cant have an open feeder, the squrills just devour everything in a day.
Then they move in and dig in my pots and garden all summer and move bulbs in the fall.
I hate them.
I also discourage sparows by only buying seed small birds like.
Blue Jays and larger birds pick up the stuff that falls to the ground.
I dont buy bargin seed as those blends have a lot of "filler seeds" that the birds disguard and then the seed sprouts into weed varieties I dont want.

There are some nice sparrows----white-throated for example---Oh Sam, peabody, peabody, follows me daily---and fox sparrows are gorgeous. I bought a new feeder the other day, but I'm not liking it---it has a plastic dome, & I can't see the birds feeding----and on cold morns, it's frosty-looking.

Jo Anne, I have the same problems with squirrels. They're horrible! I had a nice wood feeder that one of my sisters got me for Christmas one year, and the squirrels destroyed it with their constant chewing on it. I only use squirrel-proof feeders now.

Karen

I love the special sparrows.
I am referring to the JunkEnglish Sparrows that breed all summer and swoop down on my feeders and clean them out before the better birds have a chance.

I owned a Yankee Flipper and it was hilerious.Just forgot to go out in the freezing winter to recharge the battery