I found an article the other day that demonstrates how a simple gesture can have far reaching effect on the world around us. As anyone who has read any of my articles from the past would know, I like to find new ways to attract birds to my backyard. By placing a bird feeder or [...]
Filed under: Backyard Decorating, Bird Feeders on December 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I live in the desert southwest, Arizona, to be more specific. So it is always hot here, right? No change of seasons, right? Well yes and no. I spent my childhood and early adult life in way upstate New York. We really had a change of seasons there. Ninety degrees in the heat of summer [...]
Filed under: Backyard Decorating, Bird Feeders on September 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
In a previous post I discussed the fact that people go through great pains to stop squirrels from eating their bird seed. The premise of my thought was that why would we stop squirrels from eating? This sounded cruel to me. Well I had several conversations with people from around the country on this topic [...]
Filed under: Bird Feeders, Squirrel Proof on September 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
I have a friend, Bobby, with an odd sense of humor. We all appreciate Bobby and his method of thinking about the world. One of the jokes he always makes is about tuna safe dolphin. He jokes, “I only eat dolphin if no tuna was harmed in the harvesting of the dolphin”. I don’t have [...]
Filed under: Backyard Decorating, Bird Feeders, Squirrel Proof on September 14th, 2009 | 7 Comments »
My kids started in a new pre-school this week. It was a pretty big change for the entire family. The new school is a Montessori franchise. My kids are in the same room, we are happy about that feature. We have to pack a lunch every day now, the other school provided a lunch. This [...]
Filed under: Bird Feeders on September 3rd, 2009 | 10 Comments »
It is summer in Arizona again. Mid August. I am a transplant from the east coast and we never got tired of summer in New York. But we always got tired of winter. In Arizona the heat starts to ware you out around the middle of August. And we still have several months of heat [...]
Filed under: Bird Feeders, Hummingbirds on August 20th, 2009 | 5 Comments »