Random Updatia

[ellyssian]

In no particular order:

• A hummingbird flew into my shoulder, scolded me, and then flew over to the feeder


• Ordered a string trimmer head and a blade from John Deere a few days ago, just got the call the parts came in to the local shop, so I'll pick them up tomorrow - one guess what I'll be doing later that day!


• The robins are settling into their nest in the kiwi trellis, although they scatter if you stare too long at them or get too close (understandable, but you think with all the scouting they did prior to moving in that they'd realize we were around...)


• Deb did something for her birthday, but I'm not telling what - even though word got around her family almost instantly, you won't hear about it from be, because I said I wouldn't mention it


• A doe took a nap in our backyard for at least an hour Wednesday morning


• Deb is working through an edit of Full Moon Poetry - need to work a bit on the opening and some more on the ending; I knew their were some weak spots there, and I'm indecisive about how to work through them


• Saw a turkey buzzard walking in a parking lot the other day; except for the flying part, they do look an awful lot like wild turkeys


• If you guessed that I would be trying to fit a cutting blade from one model string trimmer onto another deprecated model, you'd be absolutely correct... although I'll probably put the string head on first and chop down the grass on the sandmound and along Rachel River - re-read the "How to plant a native prairie" instructions and discovered that the first year growth should be kept to 5 inches - a limit which it certainly is exceeding by an order of magnitude. It is actually sparse enough that it won't cause that much of an issue, but I'm going to try to keep the sandmound trimmed down so it is easier to maintain for fall planting and its first year.

Comments

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

You really should have known better than to put your shoulder in the flight path. Someone could've gotten hurt.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

You know, that's exactly what the hummingbird said, except he wasn't as polite. And he implied that next time, if he didn't just take off and dart about randomly, he was going to work up to top speed and then hit my shoulder, and see how I liked it then.

Kamikaze hummingbirds. Oy.

[wisedonkey.livejournal.com]

Hummingbirds are mean. I don't keep up the feeders any more because they started getting annoying. As you said, they will give you a good tongue lashing if you get in their territory. It's funny when they fight over one 'flower' on the feeder, when there are four others open, and another feeder three feet away. I've actually seen one hummingbird knock another out of the sky! Fortunately, they're robust little monster and the victim recovered within a couple of seconds and flew away.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Kind of like the chipmunks, except not tunneling down and eating up roots and getting into the walls of the house.

The cats will take care of the ones that stand still too long...

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

Deb did something for her birthday, but I'm not telling what - even though word got around her family almost instantly, you won't hear about it from be, because I said I wouldn't mention it


Perhaps the hummingbird is punishing you for teasing us with even that tidbit of info?

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Not at all. He made me post that bit, just to bug you.

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

:P That was mean. And here I used to think you were nice.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Wasn't me at all. Sure, blame the messenger, while the hummingbird gets away with it.

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna argue with the bird, I've learned over the years never to fight with anything that has its pecker on its face!