i love Saturday mornings

i watch the birds interact with squirrels, interact with chickens, interact with the cats, interact with the dog.
It's Saturday morning at the Garden of Weeden All-You-Can-Eat Buffet .  The wrens, junkos and chickadees are gleefully feasting on and around the feeder, when a squirrel charges up the wrought iron shepherds hook, scattering the birds in every direction.  It resembled a whirly-gig breaking apart.  If it wasn't so natural, i wouldn't feel any hesitation to describe it as magical! The squirrel makes it up the pole using the momentum behind a running start and then hangs from the feeder by her/his feet to feed.
Things begin to settle.  Some of the braver birds venture back to the feeder but most are content to pick up fallen seeds from the ground.  Suddenly the squirrel flees down the pole and over to the safely of the old evergreen tree.  "What just happened", i think to myself just as i see, out of the corner of my eye, the chickens charging toward the feeder from across the yard.
Are the chickens charging at the squirrel?  i don't know for sure but i think not.  Carmen has charged the squirrel when it was feeding at her seed dish but they will run, one after the other, across the yard on occasion.  The squirrel is pretty smart though.  S/he must know that the chickens can't get up that shepherds hook.

i love sitting here in my diningroom/mudroom, drinking some chewable coffee and watching the Garden of Weeden.  It gives me a little peace.

While i was loading these pictures, i saw Precious chase a squirrel off the back porch, away from her seed dish.  Wish i could have gotten a picture.

parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

Fox and Hare part 2/2

Watch part 1 first....... so good!

Fox and Hare part 1/2

This is so good! About 6 minutes... so worth it.

As promised

This will not happen overnight. i will be spending an hour or so tonight making a to-do list, setting reminders in my calendar and so on and so forth. But it is begun.

i picked a credit union. A very well established one. They have a great website and i already have my debit card. And i sent money to Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders as my first transaction. That made me feel like i put some good juju on my account as well.

The woman who set me up was really great. She has been doing this for awhile. She logged me onto the website and set up my password right there and then. i told her the new password trick i use. OK, OK, i'll tell you too. Use the first letter of each word in a sentence. Add a number or two at the end or beginning if you want. Example: i am a irritable old crone, would be iaaioc. Be sure to use a sentence you will remember... my car is white and my dog is brown... mciwamdib. Done.

i won't tell you her name but i have her card and plan to send a Thank You note.

i have EFT's to move to the new account BUT it is going to take a month minimum for my direct deposit to kick in. i did not talk to HR first because my experience of setting up my current direct deposit was so smooth and easy. Funny, there have been a few changes in the last ten years... hmm.

Note to self: Send Thank You note to HR guy too. So everyone, go to your HR first!

Next issue: moving my EFT's (Electronic Funds Transfer). This is what really makes me nervous. i don't have a margin of funds to work with so i need to coordinate moving my direct deposit and my mortgage payment EFT. i hate EFT's but they are a necessary evil. i have a Netflix account, a monthly contribution to a local non-profit radio station and my car insurance. All needing coordination. i think i will put Netflix and the radio station on hold for a couple months and concentrate on the car insurance and mortgage.

Well, that is boring. Enjoy... oyy. As promised, i will let you know how it is going from time to time.

Goodnight, chickies and roos. Love and kisses

Buell

Thank you Armen. Watch and be amazed.

Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres

If you can scratch a few dollars together, please consider Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres, mi amigos, mi chickies and roos.

i love you and cherish you in my life.

Move your money, mi amigos

Well mi amigos, mi chickies and roos, i am moving my money tomorrow. Er, well, i am interviewing banks and credit unions.

i must make this quick as my computer battery is getting low. i will blog here tomorrow and let you all know how it went.

Click this post's title to see a video by Bill Maher.

A lost photo that has me crying

i needed to post this picture of my precious Nathaniel. He died a little over a year ago and i found this picture that i thought was lost. Just looking at it gets me choked up. He was so loving and gentle. Oh, now i am crying and can't see to type.

Stay close by my precious, if you can. i don't feel you in the yard anymore so maybe you are on your way back. Find me if you can. i love you, Sweety.

Hawthorne looked for you for a long time. You were his little buddy and his only playmate. He watched over you for me and loved you too.

A Prince In His Forest

Lincoln and i went to another nature park together. This one is close by and not as natural as one might hope. All good tho...

i am very much taking it easy this weekend. i have been very busy for the last few months. My brother will be moving out this week, certainly by next weekend. Love my bro, but..... yeah!

When he is gone, i will reorganize my arts and crafts supplies, begin planning my garden and best of all..... plan construction of a patio cover along the back of my house (pics to follow soonly). i also want to do some writing (Thanks to Jim who made me remember how much i love doing it) and i want to create some fabric art projects.

The cool catz picture is what i want to create in fabric. It is from a video that my friend Armen shared with us on Facebook and the same video i posted here on November 16th. Scroll down and watch it. The video is fantastic!

Bye for now.