Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
She: “C’mon, slugabed, I’ve got to go soon.” He: “Snow day.” She: “It most certainly is day. You can see in the house without turning the lights on, and it’s before 8 AM. We might survive the winter yet.” He: “Snow day.” She: “Are you listening to me? It is [...]
People say Hummingbirds are too fragile to withstand extreme weather. Ha! Hummingbirds are strong, resilient and fierce. On December 29th, 2010, I video taped this Anna’s Hummingbird sipping nectar from a feeder on our back deck. Three hummingbirds that we know of wintered here on San Juan Island in Puget [...]
Yesterday as I sat at the dining room table eating my lunch I watched the Juncos and Chickadees fighting over the suet in the woodpecker feeder and wondered why the woodpecker had never come back. I figured our greasy spoon cuisine didn’t suit him. Alas. No sooner had that thought [...]
We still have Hummingbirds, and since I figured you wouldn’t believe me, I took photographs to prove it — lousy photographs, but photographs nonetheless. I took this shot through the dining room window. That white stuff you see on the roof behind the bird is snow. I have three Hummingbird [...]