Excuse me...

Jamie, my son-in-law, loves to feed the birds, even more than Mr.K and I do.

He designed an amazing four station bird feeder...

We thought it was great!
On Christmas day when he came with this marvelous feeder for us,

and a shovel and a bag of cement...
and proceeded to install it...

We were over the moon excited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since Mr. K and I love to watch the birds, we keep it well stocked...

 

That's usually not a problem, but now that spring is springing...

 

 

Every day, at least one of the feeders needs refilled.

 

We try to get to it first thing in the morning, but there are mornings when we get busy doing other things and put it off...

 

That's when we hear a knock at the French doors...

 

 

"Excuse me...the birds ate all the seeds!"

 

Sigh...

 

On a happier note, I got to hang out with this guy yesterday...

 

 

And now I'm headed across the hall...

 

My sewing machine is just begging for me to come and play!

 

Be nice to each other,

Talk to you soon!

 

 

 

Super Sunday!

My family got together yesterday for our 'not quite' holiday dinner.

 

When my kids became adults and adopted other families,

 we began celebrating on off weeks for most holidays

 (other than Christmas Eve, which is mandatory). 

 This was our 'not quite' Easter dinner in more ways than one...

there wasn't an egg in sight!

 

Noelle, Winnie and Tony came motoring up first...

 

 

They were out enjoying the wonderful weather...

 

They hit up the park for a doggie walk...

 

 

 

With a stop at the batting cages for good measure...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By time they got to the house, Winnie was pooped

but Tony and Noelle had energy to spare...

 

And tossed a football around

 

 

 

 

They even tried to get Michael and Catherine to join in...

 

 

Catherine said no...

and NO PICTURES and hid behind the bushes!

 

So they kept on playing...

 

 

No...Mr.K was not joining in the game, he was picking up twigs, lol!

 

 

 

 

I think they burned off enough energy to eat all of these...

 

 

And of course, Catherine's famous apple pie.

Seriously, even if they didn't want to show up,

if I promise her apple pie, they would come!

 

 

 

 

For our 'not quite' Easter dinner, I don't set a formal table, but we eat buffet style.

 

Tony and Noelle said that when you go to a sporting banquet, this is how you save your seats...

 

 

 

I give up...

 

We did manage to sit down and enjoy our dinner together. 

 

 

I love it when we get together!

 

Of course,

 

the guest of honor was...

 

 

who brought his parents, Andy and  (a very camera shy)  Ashley...

 

 

 

Locklan wasn't even impressed with all the attention he got from Michael and Vicky...

 

 

 

 

Or his great grandmother...

 

 

No, he's not picking his nose!

 

In fact, he didn't even seem impressed with the chair I just couldn't pass up on Saturday...

 

 

Won't this be great for the river?

 

Jamie was here too...I know 'cause Mr. K conned him into

helping take the boat out of the garage...

 

 

 

Cause you know...I complained that I had nowhere to park my car...

So they moved it to the driveway?!?

 

~HELLO!~

~sigh~

 

Now I can relax a bit...

I'm working on dish cloths again...

 

 

It's mindless knitting so that I can be productive while sitting here...

 

 

enjoying the sun...

 

AND planning my next adventure!

 

Stay tuned!

Jan

 

 

 

 

How time flies!

Remember this?

 

 

That is Ashley on the left, her sister, Alicia on the right...

 

How quickly it turns into this...

 

 

Bentley, Alicia's son, on the left,

 Locklan, the love of my life, on the right...

aren't they precious?

 

How quickly time flies!

 

Enjoy every minute of it!

 

God bless all y'all!

Jan

 

Oh nooooooo!

Can you believe it?

 

 

We're out of coffee!!!'

My cup...

 

Is empty...

 

How could this happen?

Emergency coffee run!

Back in a flash!

Awwwwww, nuts!

Every morning, Mr. K throws a handful of peanuts out on the patio for his friends...

 

 

Those darn squirrels!

 

 

That green blob he's sitting on is a piece of glass from Franklin Glass Company,

 a local glass plant that closed in 1960.  The squirrels seem to love it!

 

 

This week we were able to put some of the patio furniture out.  The squirrels treat it like a jungle gym...

 

 

Or the place they wait for their treats!

 

Speaking of treats,

Look who came to spend the night with 'grammy and pappy' last night...

 

 

Winnie!

 

She thinks today is 'take your grand-dog to work' day...

So she went to work with pappy...

 

 

She loves to sit on the chair in Mr. K's office...

 

 

 

So she can keep track of the neighbors...

especially Clay Matthews, the boxer across the street...

 

 

Is that cute or what?

 

Oh...and I get to spend the afternoon with this guy...

 

 

 

How could you not be happy when you think of this?

 

~sigh~

 

 

 

Dirty birds!

A few days ago, Linda Lou and I were out enjoying the sun in the back yard...

I looked up...and realized that before too long, the trees would no longer look like this...

 

We have regular visitors to the bird feeders at my feeding station my son-in-law made for me...

 

It's a work of art, with pulleys and cables and hooks...

 

But beneath the station, it's a mess! 

 

Between the seeds, the peanut shells...

 

I guess I didn't realize two things:

 

#1 there are lots of birds in our family

#2  birds are dirty!

 

Dirty or not, I love watching the birds.

 

A few days ago I commented to Mr. K that we should get a parrot or some kind of talking bird.

 

He just shook his head.

 

Later that day, I repeated it while having dinner at his son's house.

 

His son said that he had just the bird for me...

 

He went upstairs and brought this...

 

 

 ugly thing downstairs. 

 

Turns out, this is a very talented bird! 

He's motion activated and has a litany of off color phrases.

 

I brought him home thinking I'd put him in the powder room so that when

one of the kids comes to visit, it will start shouting when they walk in the room...

 

Didn't work that way...

 

But when I put it on the kitchen counter so that I would remember to return it,

each time we turned off the kitchen light, it would shout...

 

Two days later, I woke early, before the sun was up. 

I went downstairs and made coffee and turned on the news...

I was sitting in the family room when suddenly, the lights went out!

 

The minute the room went dark, this bird started screaming obscenities!

 

SCARED THE BEJEEBERS OUT OF ME!

 

Dirty bird! 

Either he needs a batteryectomy or he's going home to Rick's house, pronto!

 

Speaking of birds...

 

Remember when Tony and Noelle went to Florida and put birds on their heads?

 

 

 

Noelle claimed she was afraid of birds, but then they met her FAVORITE bird...

 

 

The Pirate Parrot!

 

Tony didn't get groped  hugged by the parrot,

but he did get cuddled by the mascot of the Wheeling Nailers

 

 

And me?

 

To be honest, I am pretty down at the moment...

If I didn't have to go out, I'd stay in my pajamas all day,

drink tea from a Christmas Mug and eat Clementines...

 

I'll be fine in a day or two!

 

Of course, I got to spend a few hours with this little guy...

 

 

 

So I KNOW I am blessed...

 

Now I'm going to make a cup of tea and wander into my sewing room to play with this...

 

 

Thanks for humoring me by reading all the way down to here!

God bless you!

Jan