This morning I put out the big cake of suet with seeds that cardinals like in the new, big cardinal suet feeder I bought. I also refilled the oriole feeder with Welch's grape jelly and some oriole food that you mix with water. My feeder has four depressions in the top for jelly, and beneath the top there is a compartment for the liquid food. You could also spear half an orange with the post that fastens the feeder to the 'hanger,' but I didn't have any oranges so I skipped that part. We'll see if any orioles show up. After I first hung the feeder on our deck, the jelly all disappeared, but I didn't see any orioles. Now, I'll keep an eye out for them. Unfortunately, it is supposed to rain much of tomorrow, so that may keep them from visiting the feeder.
I also put some of the hydrangea food on my new blue hydrangea plant that David put into the ground this morning. Now, we'll see some pretty flowers and this plant growing into a lovely bush in the front yard. I can't wait...
The ducks and the two little geese now have a fenced in pen just outside the garage door. In the morning, if it is nice like it was today, David gets the pen all set up and opens a 'door' on one side of the cardboard pen where these little guys live (in the garage) until they get feathers and can stand being outside all the time in the mobile 'chicken' tractor. After he gets the side of the cardboard box open, he puts their feed trough and their watering trough out into the little pen, and pretty soon all of the little webbed-footed guys go traipsing out in a row. The ducks have made peace with the geese, so now they all cuddle together in a pile, once they have explored the grass and pen fully. The geese especially love eating the grass. The ducks...not so much. But, all of them seem to enjoy being outside, especially on a pretty, sunny day like today.
I spent the afternoon putting more of my books onto the newly refinished bookcases, and trying to get the library room more organized. This entire move to a different home has been an ongoing effort, and we still have more work to be done. We hope to get the old, cracked concrete removed from outside the mudroom door, and some new retaining walls and new patio put in using 'tumbled' Belgian bricks. Once that gets completed, and the deck gets it's new coat of stain, things should be pretty much done, except for the ongoing projects like the garden, and planting things in the yard. David says his wildflowers that he planted in the ditch along the road in front of our property are coming up...that will look pretty nice, I think.
Tomorrow I have an appointment with a dermatologist to see if all those years of sun-bathing up at the lake in Minnesota have created a bunch of work for him....I seem to have a lot of scaly, itchy spots on my back, and I'm hoping he can remove some of them. When you are young and your skin is smooth and supple, you don't think of how awful it will look with spots and scales on it.... Well, kiddos, many sunburns have left me with a full slate of icky skin spots. We'll see if anything can be done about it, but I have a feeling my skin is on the 'downhill slide....'
I bought myself a new desk chair since the one I bought just a little over a year ago was a piece of junk, and the seat wiggles and wobbles so badly that I get a sore back trying not to fall off of it. I complained to the store where I got it, and they did give me a coupon for half of its purchase price (but not a full refund because the chair was not made by their company...) I did remind them that I purchased the chair on their web site, but be forewarned, if a product does not bear the company name, they won't be willing to 'own' any problems it might have. But, it was not an expensive chair, and I definitely did not want to keep trying to sit on it (although my daughter did tell me that it would probably 'work my core' sitting on it...!) So, hopefully, tomorrow my new, better quality, company brand desk chair will be delivered, so I can put my kitchen chair back at the kitchen table where it belongs!
I found a shoebox full of photos of my deceased niece, Bonnie. I inherited them when Bonnie's mom, my sister Merry, died in 2012. I hated to throw those photos of that darling little girl away (even though Bonnie was in her 50's when she died), so I've decided to scan them into my computer, transfer them to a thumb drive, and keep them that way. Then, I'll take the actual photos out to our burn pile, and David and I will have a memorial pyre and burn them. At least, I can still look at them if I want, and they will be available for printing, should a need arise.
I hope you all had as glorious a day as it was here in central Iowa. It was a bit windy, and rather cool, but the sun shone all day, and everything looked so lovely. I even picked some lily-of-the-valley and put them in the pretty crystal vase my friend Kate gave me, and now my living room smells absolutely wonderful!
Until next time...
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