Another Misc. Update! :)

This adorable, large bird is about to make us crazy! Especially at 6:45 in the morning when he's tap, tap, tapping on the living room window like a woodpecker!! Seriously!! This morning is started at 6:45, he flies at the window tapping it a few times then goes and lands on the post, waits a minute or so and then does it again. This continues for about 5-10 minutes and then he leaves for about 20 minutes and comes back and starts all over again! I'm not sure why he is not dead yet or his beak is not broken yet. This went on for about 3 hours this morning. Then Tiffani heard him tapping but he wasn't at the side window. I went looking this morning and he was sitting on the little table on the front porch flying into the front window!! So he's also the culprit who has been messing up our table and the poor frog statue that sits there. This bird needs a new home! I hope he finds one before we start getting raspberries - right there below the side window.
This picture was taken after hearing this for 2 mornings in a row. He doesn't look one bit dazed by all of it, does he?
You can't tell too much on this picture, but this is the window that he's been attacking. All the white spots that might look like its snowing, is the birds' markings on the window.

Onto more important things!!! :)

We have this cool divider in the back of the trailblazer that has hooks on it to hold grocery bags. Now that Tiffani is using the trailblazer and we take my pickup shopping, Les made a grocery "rack" for the pickup. Works quite well AND he improved it by making it double sided for those big shopping trips. :)

So in this picture Simba is just sitting waiting for the neighbor dog, but as I was standing at the sink doing dishes, Simba was running up and down the fence line. Every once in awhile he'd stop in the middle and act like he was getting ready to charge - his front paws would be pawing at the ground like a bull getting ready to charge. It was so funny to watch. So I ran upstairs and all I see is the neighbor dog laying in the sun in the patio!Maybe Simba was trying to get him to play, I don't know!

This has become Simba's favorite corner to be in when he's outside. I guess he had to claim one, Tessa sits at attention in the middle of the back yard waiting for the neighbor dog across the walkway to come out and they each jump at the fence trying to see each other. AND she's claimed the other side of the yard and runs races along the fence with that neighbor dog. (There's only 8 dogs between us and the neighbors around us!)

And now to leave you with a few of my favorite people: Brianna and some of the kiddos I work with. (Brianna has worked with them, too, and so came visiting while she was home for spring break.) Next year is going to be really hard... At least one of these guys gets to move with me!



Our spring break up in Lewiston coming next...