Cause and Effect

Jasper - Bird watching from inside a planter.

What a cutie!

Oops!

What happened! I wonder who did this?

What? I didn't do anything, I was sitting in this chair the whole time!

Birds and Cats

Relaxing Cats
Prior to leaving for vacation, in June, I was informed that I had to clear everything off my deck so it could be rebuilt. Well, having lived here for 10 years I was not looking forward to that project. A frantic phone call to my dad secured a helper and within two hours we had everything inside my apartment. We had to relocate plants into the bathroom so the cats would not eat them, my dad took home several planters and the extras were left in the living room. Over the last few weeks I have found several inchworms in my bathroom and spiders spinning webs in my dining room! I finally gave up, called the office and informed them that I didn't care if my building trim was painted or not, I was moving everything back to the deck. It has been a work in progress for the last few days. I think I am happy with how things look. The cats and the birds don't seem to have any complaints.

4th of July

My apartment just shook to the foundation from an amazingly loud and powerful firework. My cats are freaking out and have hidden themselves away somewhere safe in the living room.

I spent today cleaning up my deck and bedroom. Somehow, even as organized as I am, during the last two weeks of school every thing just gets away from me; from report cards, to inventory of my entire classroom, to graduation and then vacation a day after school is out - let's just say that I now have a completely cleaned out closet, a dining room table that I can actually eat off of and most of my office desk is now usable.

For the past few weeks the outside of my apartment building was being painted, what an experience that has been. I think they are finished with my deck, so maybe in the next few days I will be able to replant all my plants and I will finally have my living room back - I had to store all my deck stuff in the living room-doesn't sound so bad to you? Well consider this, I had inch worms in my bathroom, spiders spinning webs in the kitchen and slugs on my living room carpet! ugh!!

Baby LOVE!

No it's not my baby, but I am now an (unofficial) aunt. My best friend of 20+ years, just had a baby! What a doll! I think my uterus is ticking . . . any one in blog-land want to send me a 30+ year old, single, Christian male? I am sure God has plans, however, it's never easy to wait, especially for something as beautiful as this baby.

Travel to the heat!

My friend from college and I took a road trip to visit my sister. My sister loves the heat and let's just say that I was melting (and somewhat grumpy) with the 100 degree weather. It was great to visit with her and meet all her friends. I am so proud of her new job and home. Congrats!

Fledge Day was Saturday!

They are getting restless. Look at those eyes! What cute faces you guys have.

Saturday I heard a lot of noise in the box, wings flapping and such. The adults were going crazy! I saw black flashes coming out of the nest box. I finally opened up the box and saw there was only one baby left!
After running to the store, I checked the box again and they were all gone! One of them ended up in my neighbors flower pot. I was looking forward to getting some photos of the fledglings, but it was not to be. There is one egg left in the box, near 3 o'clock. It was a dud and never hatched!

Look at how big they have grown!

This picture was taken on Wednesday. There are six, but one is being squished! These are about lifesized.