Exceedingly Mundane

We have a suet feeder that the smaller birds like chickadees and wrens come to, more often than the seed feeder. However, if you look at the link, you’ll see that the suet cakes were at least half full on 5-29-06 (less than 10 days ago). However, about 3 days after I took this picture, I noticed the cakes were completely gone. They have been very hungry lately!

So, since their suet is gone (yes, I need to go to Walmart!), the chickadees have been coming to the bird seed feeder more often. Yesterday afternoon, there were 3 or 4 of them at one time, vying for attention on the feeder. The ones waiting in line would perch on top of the shepherd’s hook, waiting their turn.

Chickadees on a hook, aka, birds on a wire:

P.S. Please remember that I take these pictures from inside my house, so I’m taking the pictures looking through a dirty window that has a screen on it. Otherwise, the pictures would be a lot clearer 😆

1. I have broken zero bones in my lifetime.
2. I have had to get ?? stitches. –> I have no idea on this one! I had stitches as a very small child, but I don’t know how many! I have had none later in life
3. The worst I’ve ever injured myself was when I was a toddler and a brick fell on my head 😀 Yes, that’s how I always explain what is wrong with me – a brick fell on my head when I was very little!
4. I’ve had to go to the Emergency room 1 times (again, as a toddler, and I don’t remember a single bit of it!)
5. On a scale of 1 (being the highest) to 10 (being the lowest), my pain tolerance is a 9 . I’m a complete and total wimp, and I know it.

We had a really busy, but really fun weekend. Tim and I grilled out Friday night, and then watched some TV. He is really into the NBA playoffs this time around, and is enjoying all the games. Which is a really good thing, since there’s not a lot else on TV to watch lately! 🙂

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I haven’t had any time to blog for the last couple of days. We’ve been really busy, hanging out with Don and Gail, and also getting to visit some with David, Elizabeth and Chris. I’ll try to blog tomorrow

Well, lately, this blog seems to have turned into a series of product reviews and book reviews. Sorry about that, but these things seem to be commanding my attention lately.

So, to continue the trend, here’s another food product that I just bought and really, really like! It’s Blue Bunny’s Brownie Fudge Fantasy fat-free frozen yogurt. I’m not sure if Blue Bunny is available in all areas of the country, but it’s readily available down here in the Deep South. And this is chocolate-y enough to make me happy!

Not a lot going on around here to blog about… let’s see.

I’ve been reading a lot lately, especially since there’s not much on TV to watch at all anymore. I thought I would really enjoy that, and I have, but already I’m starting to tire of it. Maybe I’ve just been reading too much, or a lot of the same type of book, or something, because I’m feeling a tad burned out on reading. I am going to try to go to the library today and see what I can find to interest me. I have 6 books to return, 5 of which I have read. I think the last one, a new Karen Kingsbury one, will have to wait. I normally really dislike returning books to the library that I have not read (something in that OCD gene I have about a completion factor), but I’m just not up to reading another one of her books or starting a new series (this is the first in a set of 3 books in the “Forever Faithful” series). I’ll see what I can find, or if all else fails, I might could read one of the books we have bought and I have sitting on a bookshelf. 🙄

Along those same lines, I seem to be having an early case of the summer doldrums. We’re only one week into the no-tv zone and already I’m wanting something to keep me interested on a regular basis. We’ve watched movies, rented movies, I’ve been reading at night, Tim has his golf and has also been watching the NBA playoffs, but already – I’m starting to get bored of all that. I want something new and fun to do. Gail and I were just talking about this yesterday. Anybody have any suggestions?! 🙂

OK, I’ve got to run a couple of errands today – bank, library, Sam’s. I don’t feel like shopping, but it has to be done sometimes. I haven’t been to Sam’s in months, so I have a decent list.

Sigh, anybody else having the blahs?! 😛

Friday, June 02, 2006
Feast Ninety-Six

Appetizer
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being highest), how funny do you think you are? Well, I think I’m about average, maybe a 5 or 6. Tim and I “get” each other’s humor and I often find we laugh at each other a lot more than other people laugh along to whatever we are saying or joking about. A lot of inside jokes, I guess, or else we’ve just grown very alike in our humor

Soup
Name a local restaurant would you recommend to a visitor to your town or city. If they would eat fish, we’d take them to Cock of the Walk out at the Reservoir. They only serve fried catfish, but the atmosphere is great and the food is always incredibly good. I blogged about a recent trip here.

Salad
What’s a lesson you were lucky enough to learn the easy way? Not sure if it’s a lesson, but I try really hard not to make or take bad first impressions of people. I don’t make great first impressions myself, it takes people a while to get to know me and not think I’m horrible or a snob or weird. 🙂 So, I work really hard at not taking bad first impressions of others

Main Course
Where would you like to be 5 years from now? Where I am, happily married, hopefully surrounded by family and friends

Dessert
If you could see the front page of a newspaper from June 2, 2106, what would you imagine the headline might be? Well, would we even have printed newspapers then? With the way technology is progressing, I doubt we’d have printed news on a paper thrown on your driveway by a paper carrier. Having said that, I imagine we’d read about wars, diseases, global warming, new technology, etc. I would like to think that our world then would be better, maybe cures for cancer and other diseases would have been found, maybe we would have learned to live in harmony with others on our planet, but I have my doubts. Who knows.

::Gone Fishin’!::

Onesome: Gone– “Gone with the Wind”? Do you have a new “must see” movie for this Summer? Well, I had several on the list that I thought we might want to see, although none of them are what I consider “must see”. We have seen MI3 and XMen 3 so far, and have not seen The Da Vinci Code yet. I think we both want to go see the new Superman movie that opens in a few weeks also. Oh, and I definitely want to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, loved the first one!

Twosome: Fish– Do you fish? What, where (and who cleans )? Yes, I like to go fishing with Tim. We normally go to his parents pond, but we haven’t been in a long time. I won’t take them off the hook or clean them. I’m so glad Tim or his brothers or dad is always willing to do that for me!

Threesome: in’– coming! Do you have any Summer visitors headed your way? …or are you the one(s) doing the traveling? Suzanne was just here for a few days, and Gail and Don come some, so Don and Tim can play golf. We don’t have any “big” visitors coming for any length of time for the rest of the summer, that I know of. 🙂 We normally go somewhere in July, but so far we’ve been unable to plan a trip this year. Maybe later!

Well, well, look at me, I finished another book! With no TV shows on at night to watch, I’m getting a lot of reading in!

This was a different kind of book for me, but another enjoyable one. I would classify this book as a modern day fairy tale, with a strong Christian undertone to it (considering it was written by a Christian fiction author). It’s a make-believe story about a young woman who lives in a mythical country (Pendaran), who agrees to an arranged marriage with the handsome, dashing prince. When they marry, they have never met. It goes on to follow their courtship during marriage and how they learn to like and love one another. I would almost like to call it a Harlequin type of romance, except that it is so very clean and uplifting, that I can’t really even use the word “harlequin” with the connotations it brings to mind. 🙂

For the record, that makes #32 for the year, with a total of 11, 549 pages read. Up next to read is the first of a series of 3 books by (again) Karen Kingsbury. It’s called “Waiting for Morning” and the other two at not at one of my normal library branches. So, I’ll need to call today and see about getting them sent to my regular branch. I love the library! 🙂