This place is for the birds!

[Spiky Bugger]

And they are here. We have mountain chickadees and wrens and doves and house finches and BABY goldfinches, which are GLORIOUS to watch as they are SO yellow and so tiny and fighting over the food in the seed sock. AND we have a couple of quail who have come to call this place home. They, too, are fun to watch as they are out there acting more like chickens, scratching at the ground instead of going for the easy stuff in the feeders. The hummingbirds aren't here yet, but we expect them momentarily.

Of course, those big, ugly purple flying rats...at which we throw rocks...think they should be allowed to play here, but that is not the case. ******* pigeons. And the doves just calmly watch us throw rocks at the pigeons and kind of shake their heads at all the commotion.

I'm making Mr. Sue start weaning these birds so they leave slowly...we don't want a few dozen to show up one day and find all the food gone.

Also, yesterday there were and today there are, zero tomatoes in my big expensive planter. But the stupid Topsy Turvy thing, which I bought on clearance for 50-cents has a dozen or so thingys that were flowers a day or two ago and are teensy tomatoes this morning.

I feel like Eva Gabor.

 

[Terri]

I'm pretty much in town and we don't have a lot of the pretty birds. However, we do have plenty of hummingbirds if we put out a feeder. I do love watching them. They will get pretty feisty with one another over the food. Oh yeah and we have so many freaking pigeons around it is ridiculous!

 

[JackieOnLine]

how wonderful! this is the place you are moving away from?

 

[Sheanie]

Am I the only one who got the Green Acres reference? And now I've got the theme song in my head.

 

[Terri]

@Sheanie not anymore. I now have visions Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor in my head as well!

Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square

You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.


source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/

 

[Sheanie]

@Terri , I can still see him climbing up the telephone pole to make a call. Do you remember Petticoat Junction? That was another one of my favorite shows. And Dark Shadows with Barnabus Collins. I grew up watching the old Batman where they never showed actual violence, just "Bam!" or "POW" in letters.

 

[Terri]

@Sheanie I do! I always watched them after school. They were reruns and in black and white, I was always excited when there was one on in color, but I loved them. I think they were both spin offs of The Beverly Hillbillies, which I loved as well. I remember Batman too. I remember my sister watched Dark Shadows, but I was little young to really get it. Then when I got a little older The Brady Bunch was on after school. Now the shows they have on for kids are crap.

 

[Sheanie]

Well, we just started watching Surviving Jack, with Chrisopher Meloni (from Law & Order SVU) on it, and we think it's the BEST new comedy on TV since The Big Bang Theory and Seinfeld. We used to watch Friends, too. Right now we are working our way through Dexter on Netflix. But we don't have young kids, so we can watch stuff like that. We are also both heavily into The Blacklist with Slater, LOVE that show. And then there's Justified, by favorite show on TV for sick and twisted comedy. I just LOVE Dicky Bennet on that show. Timothy Olyphant can eat crackers in my bed any night he wants, just between you and me.

Not too long ago my daughter brought home a guy she met. We drove to a nearby town all in one car, so we got to visit with him. I kid you not, this man actually BELIEVED in the show "Mermaids". He did NOT understand that the show was make-believe and fiction. He got all excited after using my newly remodeled bathroom with a mermaid tile set in the shower. He thought I was a kindred spirit, a fellow believer in mermaids. My daughter dumped him the next day.

 

[Terri]

Well, we just started watching Surviving Jack, with Chrisopher Meloni (from Law & Order SVU) on it, and we think it's the BEST new comedy on TV since The Big Bang Theory and Seinfeld. We used to watch Friends, too. Right now we are working our way through Dexter on Netflix. But we don't have young kids, so we can watch stuff like that. We are also both heavily into The Blacklist with Slater, LOVE that show. And then there's Justified, by favorite show on TV for sick and twisted comedy. I just LOVE Dicky Bennet on that show. Timothy Olyphant can eat crackers in my bed any night he wants, just between you and me.

Not too long ago my daughter brought home a guy she met. We drove to a nearby town all in one car, so we got to visit with him. I kid you not, this man actually BELIEVED in the show "Mermaids". He did NOT understand that the show was make-believe and fiction. He got all excited after using my newly remodeled bathroom with a mermaid tile set in the shower. He thought I was a kindred spirit, a fellow believer in mermaids. My daughter dumped him the next day.

Haven't seen Surviving Jack yet, will set DVR for it. We are SO into The Blacklist too! We are normally 1-2 weeks behind because the hours DH works we normally only have Sunday afternoons to catch up the DVR. I hear you on Timothy Olyphant, OH MY! We were also watching a show called Betrayal. It came on right around when The Blacklist did. I don't know what happened to it. It had it's winter finale and never came back on. We have also started recording Fargo, we haven't watched any of it yet, but the previews looked good.

Bless Mermaid Boy's heart! Sounds like a great call on your daughters part. Her name isn't Ariel, is it? LOL

 

[Sheanie]

@Terri , Oh My Sweet Baby Jesus, you are gonna LOVE Fargo. Did you see the original movie? If not, rent that and watch it first. Twisted, but funnier than ****. Also, did you know it is based upon a TRUE STORY? The Coen Brothers are geniuses. I've never seen Betrayal. But if it has anything to do with infidelity in marriage, Mr Sheanie would veto it. Ditto on any gay scenes, he won't watch that. So no Brokeback Mountain, LOL.

Lately we've taken to quoting Justified lines to each other. Dicky Bennet's lines in particular.

 

[Elizabeth N.]

I saw my first hummingbird of the season yesterday. Now it's really spring .

 

[Sheanie]

I saw my first hummingbird of the season yesterday. Now it's really spring .

Jesus, Mary & Joseph. I've had my GD hummingbird feeders out now for a week and not one single basterd bird. I have seen bats on them at night, however. Yeah. The bats that have been living in my attic all winter are probably glad I'm setting out sugar water for them. Damn flying **** rats.

 

[k9ophile]

@Sheanie not anymore. I now have visions Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor in my head as well!

Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.

New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square

You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.


source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/

You seem like a nice person, but since I've had this stupid song stuck in my head ever since you posted it, I'm re-considering my opinion of you. It seems you have a touch of maliciousness.

 

[Terri]

You seem like a nice person, but since I've had this stupid song stuck in my head ever since you posted it, I'm re-considering my opinion of you. It seems you have a touch of maliciousness.

Blame @Sheanie she started it! I got it in my head and couldn't remember all the words. I thought other people may get it stuck as well, so I wanted to be nice and share the words so others didn't have to look them up. Hehe.

Also just to be a little mean, have you heard the song "What does the fox say"? If not look it up. "Green Acres" will seem awesome stuck in your head compared to it.

 

[k9ophile]

Thanks for being soooo helpful. I'll pass on the fox song. I'm going to listen to Happy by Pharrell Williams. That song I don't mind being stuck in my head.