I Love To Go A Gardening
Growing Our Life in Northern Michigan
Category: Birds
Whirlwind of Busyness
The last week has been a whirlwind of busyness. The busyness exhausts us, but mostly our spirits are good. Monday morning JJ had an appointment with the surgeon who will be putting in the port on this coming Tuesday. He showed us what a… Continue Reading “Whirlwind of Busyness”
Star of Our Own Lives
On Wednesday, I woke up earliest, as usual. EJ works second shift and JJ is a night-owl so they go to bed later than me and sleep later in the morning. I had to wake EJ and JJ at 9 a.m. so we’d have… Continue Reading “Star of Our Own Lives”
Waking Up Slowly
This morning, I woke up slowly and saw a delightful thing. I like waking up slowly. I always wake up, get out of bed, make a pot of coffee, and then savor each cup as I settle on the couch with cats on and/or… Continue Reading “Waking Up Slowly”
The Sparrows in the Vines
The vines on my house grow really fast. I noticed vines beginning to creep up my kitchen window. I saw them at the bottom of the window, and then a week or two later they were at the top of the window. It’s spooky… Continue Reading “The Sparrows in the Vines”
Bye, Bye, Birdie
This morning, not long after I took today’s Daily Robin photograph, I looked out the window and saw a baby Robin on the edge of the nest. I grabbed my camera and went out on the front porch to watch. I received the thrilling… Continue Reading “Bye, Bye, Birdie”
Garden Thought-bits
I think gardens are excellent places to think tidbits of thought. I thought that today I’d share the tidbits of thought that I thought while I went about my day and my garden. I am cleverly calling them “thought-bits.” Early this morning, EJ looked out… Continue Reading “Garden Thought-bits”
Downstairs and Upstairs
Over the last couple of years, EJ has planted several fruit trees throughout our yard. He has two dwarf Alberta Peach trees in his garden in the back yard, and five dwarf cherry trees of a couple different varieties throughout my part of… Continue Reading “Downstairs and Upstairs”
The Robins: The Morning After
This is the hanging basket that I put the baby robins in after I unintentionally pulled down their nest. I wrote about it yesterday in my posts, Super Villain in the Garden and Baby Bird Rescue! I would prefer that the basket was in… Continue Reading “The Robins: The Morning After”
Baby Bird Rescue!
Earlier I thought I had killed a nest of baby robins. Read about it here: Super Villain in the Garden. But the story isn’t over. This evening I looked out the window where I had seen the “dead” babies, and I saw that one was… Continue Reading “Baby Bird Rescue!”
Super Villain in the Garden
This morning I woke up eager to get outside. It is a beautiful morning: sunny, blue sky, and refreshingly cool. I made coffee, made breakfast, made potato salad so it would be cool for lunch, and got outside as quickly as I could. I decided… Continue Reading “Super Villain in the Garden”
Bird Wars
Call me incredibly naive, but whenever I thought of having bird feeders in my garden, I imagined a very gentle, peaceful, idyllic scene. Something like this: I didn’t know that the reality would be a heartbreaking turf war, filled with drama and death. I… Continue Reading “Bird Wars”
Drama: Wrens vs. Sparrow
This afternoon I looked out my kitchen window and thought that the bird in the birdhouse looked rather different. As I watched, the bird came out and I saw that it was a sparrow. It was trying to steal the wrens’ house! The wrens… Continue Reading “Drama: Wrens vs. Sparrow”
New Neighbors
Last year my husband made a new pen for our dog, Danny. The new pen is bigger and shadier and it is made up of cattle panels so the breeze can get through on hot summer days. Not that Danny spends much time in it–he’s… Continue Reading “New Neighbors”
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