Is it premissable to beat a husband if you ask them to not go outside because a flock of Cedar Waxwings just flew into the Magnolia tree by the porch and they go out into the garage and start splitting firewood scaring them all away before you get close enough to get a great pic???
This was the best I was able to get before he scared them away. I could have gotten within about 15' of them grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes.
Ditto.
LOL, I hear ya! Nice pic!
No, but lock away his beer.
AND the axe...
LOL You are too funny!
Nice pic, Donna!
ROFL good one Resin.
He moved one of my tray feeder out to the Magnolia tree filled with blue berries and raisins with hopes it will lure them back again tomorrow. I think they were coming in to roost for the evening. It was almost dark
Yeppers .. I think it's long been labeled, 'physical abuse'. (hee)
On the other hand, it may could be considered self-defense in reference to the emotional abuse he inflicted upon you (in respect to, his conscious intent to refrain in any deferral to the birding request you'd made of him).
.. LOL ..
Twas truly a cute one .. that managed to snag my {extremely late} attention, DonnaB!!
Ohhh, but how many times have each of us 'women folk' felt the justification of the 'need' .. to jes pinch our guys' heads off, for such .. LOL
(With much credit due for his seemingly sweet efforts to redeem himself) .. I'm curious - - did the waxwings ever come back close by, at some point - and did you manage to fetch some decent photos like you'd wanted -?- And did you ever determine if they are/were indeed 'roosting' -?-
- Magpye
You can lead a waxwing to a tree but you cannot make a man shut up long enough to take its picture.
As one who would LOVE to get these birds in her yard (I did get 20 or so in my magnolia tree the other night) I believe you are perfectly within your rights to beat him to a pulp but now that you've posted your intentions here, thus giving proof your attack was premeditated, it might not be a good idea.
I've giggled at this thread since day one. Glad to see it up and running again. I won't even mention how many times I've wanted to clobber my dh - I'd probably be thrown in jail just for my evil thoughts.
he mowed down my Red Penta Saturday that had only been in the ground a week. I heard him say oh Sh**!!!! I didn't even want to look. As usual he said I didn't do it on purpose!!! I was backing up and didn't see it!!!!. I was being careful!!! Can't tell you how many times I have told him not to mow by my plants grrrrrrrrrrrr. I put stakes by them and he still mows them, says it looked like a weed. Last summer he mowed down both my newly plants Mulberry Tree saplings. Said he thought they were the Popcorn or Sweet Gum trees we were clearing out that are trying to take over. I told him to look at the leaves. They look nothing alike. One year he took out a whole fence of passiflora with the weed whacker. It was full of Gulf Frits cats. I made him drive us 2 hours to Alabama to the only nursery I could fine that still had some available that late in the season
The Cedar Waxwings have not returned. Guess it will be next winter/spring before I see them again unless I have summer fruits on the trees out here
Use steel stakes!
Resin
Donna, how I feel your pain. Last spring my husband mentioned that he had "taken care of that poison ivy" for me. Unfortunately it was the clematis that I had been babying along the fence for two years. Not ashamed to say, I got some mileage out of that one.
One more reason I'm not going to rush right out and get married! Now if only I can keep my 70 pound chow from doing his deed on all the new hostas I planted. MEN!
Judy is right....you should never make threats in front of witnesses, now you'll have to figure a way to make it look like an accident.
ROTFLMBO!!!!!
Get a rope!!! Come on girls; if you do the mowing and weed eating then everything will be okay. Probably the best thing is to get the guys involved in the plantings and bird watching. Buy them a good camera and tell them they are a great photographer and that all great photographers are also bird and plant photographers. That should stimulate enough interest so that they will be extra careful and try to have all the plants that birds love. But don't mention the butterfly factor. That may make them feel too feminine.
The best thing for me has been for DH to stay in the house and do the cooking . . . or go to the grocery store and do the shopping (both of which he has done since we met 17 years ago). Lately he's even done most of the kitchen cleaning.
So I am perfectly happy to do all the mowing, weed whacking, etc.!!! (BTW, I am NOT a good cook so DH probably started doing the cooking at the beginning out of self defense.)
Fchisolm, I couldn't agree more - in fact, I think eight hours works best for me . . .
Sofi, a few days ago my own husband pulled out the moonflower vine that was curling up the porch.
It wasn't really his fault, though... we have a ton of wild morning glory growing rampant, too. He just made a mistake. But still...
Men......the only thing they are good for is picking up a load a dirt, digging holes(only if you're standing right there pointing) and taking out the trash(after reminding them "it's garbage day tomorrow")
Well, DH went and did it. No, he didn't ruin anything in the garden, but he cut the end of his left thumb off while chopping onions (ewwww - nasty) and won't be able to do dishes - or probably cook - for awhile. After two hours in emergency tonight (a 30 mile round trip), and driving home in the dark when I avoid night driving at all costs due to vision issues, I was ready to cause him more bodily harm than he already did to himself. Did I mention he'd been drinking when it happened?
Sorry to hear that Murmur!
Thanks, Pelle - obviously I was a bit frustrated at the man when I wrote last night! LOL!
Oh, Murmur that sounds horrible,
After badmouthing him, I'd best say something good. Even with his thumb all bandaged (and I do mean bandaged!), he did the cooking for my parents (he cooks their dinners one week, then my sil cooks them the next) with very little help from me. He says he can manage to do dishes, although he actually was told not to. I think part of why I was so darn angry was that it scared me to death - it could have been a lot worse.
Yes, Thank God it wasn't worse.
To stay somewhat on topic... I see Cedar Waxwings four days, at most, a year, stopping here to visit the bird bath and rest, only while on their way to where ever they are going. And I'm smack dab surrounded by one of the best birding areas in Texas, maybe in the whole US, surrounded by State Park, Preserve, and Audubon land. Bummer that they don't hang around as they are one of my favorites.
Fun thread until DH attempted to amputate that finger. Keep him well. Any husband who does all or most of the cooking is worth his weight in gold.
For generations, in my family, all female children are schooled in picking a husband who cooks and all male children are taught that they will be good and willing cooks.
My DH does all the grocery/household shopping and ALL the cooking. My daughter is married to a chef.
My husband included in our wedding vows, "I will not mow the yard". (Not totally joking) In a sense it's good because it doesn't give him a chance to "oops" any of my plants, which he thinks take way too much of my time and energy. The only ones he has any interest in are the E.Ears, don't know why, and gets distressed when they want water. He even watered them once.
Thankfully the only thing he destroys, while attempting to "help" is pulling down main trunks of Virginia Creeper, that helps to keep our house cooler (shade)(and hides, so well, some places on house that need repairing), when he's clearing it away from the satellite dish or one of the entrance doors. Thank goodness VC is so prolific.
Now if he would clean the kitchen counters more than once a week and take some interest in cleaning the surfaces of kitchen appliances and insides of microwaves (two in kitchen, another big one in pantry... all heavily used) I would be one totally satisfied woman.
gg=alice
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Alice, your DH is indeed a gem and you taught your daughter well!!! My DH is doing very well and not complaining about his owie (I did do the dishes and clean the kitchen, though - no sense pushing our luck!). The doctor called the bandage he put on a "boo boo bandage." Cracked me up! And DH suggested that sex might be good for this injury and the doc not only agreed, totally deadpan, but said he could put it in writing.
