Love Story.....Birdie Style

I looked out my front door this morning and witnessed this sweet love story....how long will it last?  Come along with me on this sweet love story and imagine Andy Williams singing the words to this song.  Get your tissues out....this is a heart breaker.....


Where do I begin
To tell the story of how great a love can be
The bird love story that is older than the sea
The simple truth about the love she brings to me
Where do I start?

 With her first hello
She gave new meaning to this empty nest of mine
There'd never be another love, another time
She came into my sky and made the flying fine
She fills my heart

female dove:You look stupid and rich. male dove: Well, what if I'm smart and poor?
female dove: *I'm* smart and poor.  male dove:  Well what makes you so smart?
female dove: I wouldn't go out for birdseed with you, that's what.
male dove: Well what if I wasn't even gonna ask you to go out for birdseed with me?
female dove:  Well that's what makes you stupid.

 She fills my heart with very special wings
With angels songs , with wild imaginings
She fills my soul with so much love
That anywhere I go I'm never lonely
With her around, who could be lonely?
I reach for her wing-its always there!

 How long does it last?
Can love be measured by the hours in a day
I have no answers now but this much I can say
I know Ill need her till the stars all burn away
And she'll be there

"I'm sorry, Preppy."  "shhhh....love means never having to say you're sorry"

"Preppy, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!"

 How long does it last
Can love be measured by the hours in a day
I have no answers now but this much I can say
I know Ill need her till the stars all burn away

"What can I say about a twenty-five month old dove that went and lied?
That she was beautiful and brilliant?  That she loved beatles and crickets and me."

Oh, how she tried to cut him down to fry....telling dirty lies to his friends...ooo wah  ooo wah   ooo wah..... but her own father told him," give her up don't bother...the world's not comin' to an end."

He  told him, "Fly like a bird....chirp like a bird....fly like a bird my son......no woman's worth crawling on the earth, so fly like a bird, my son....."  oo wee aw ooooo fly fly  oweee oooo oooo.

Bye bye birdie, I don't-a mean maybe Gonna get along somehow
Soon you'll be cryin' on account of all your lyin
Oh yeah, just look who's laughin' now

 Fly like a bird, fast as I can.... Fly like a bird from you.... I'll tell the world "forget about it, girl"
And fly like a bird from you. 

Thanks Frankie Valli......still love your songs!                                  

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Hey there bloggy friends!  Hope you had a nice weekend while I was slaving away at my job.  :0   It's Sunday, and besides being a very happy time for me (since I have 23 hours between leaving work and going back), that means it's Scavenger Hunt time over at Ashley Sisk's blog!  And this week, I want to join in!  The prompts for this week are:
1. 3
2. Hands
3. Fence
4. Cuddly
5. Sign

Okay....get on board and get your seat belts on.....we're going for a ride!

THREE

For three, I submit this picture that I took while riding in the country last Tuesday.  Hubby hollered, "DID YOU SEE THOSE LITTLE PIGS?'  no  I was looking the other way.  SCREEECCCHHH.....reverse.....backing up.....and what do you know....the three little pigs were playing hide and seek with their momma!  Isn't that just TOO CUTE??!!  I know....I know....you really have to squint to see all three of them.....so I took my picture to Picasa's creative kit and numbered them for you so you wouldn't lose you sight just trying to find them.  I wanted to say this was a pig in a poke, but I looked it up, and that means a small bag.  BUT, this is a small fenced in area, so I want it to be a pig in a poke with the three little pigs.  okay? 

HANDS

For hands, I submit my too cute Jayma and her darling expressions....she lights up my day when she smiles.  She was trying to show me how old she is...she is three....she had a hard time holding up just three fingers.  That is a tough one to learn, Jayma-Bayma.  You'll get there.  And then, I had to show you just how cute she is playing with her little pop-up fish.  I adore those little hands!

Fence

This is the fence at the water park across the street from my son's future home.  I thought that little train behind the fence was so cute.  I wonder what it does.  I'd be willing to bet my son will take my granddaugthers there some hot summer afternoon when he's off....accompanied by his sister, of course.

Cuddly

Again, on another day, my cuddly little Jayma playing with her cuddly little toys. 

And, of course, I have to put my three cuddly babies on this post, too.  This is Duke.

This is LaMonte.

And you saw Zeke a few posts back.
They are very cuddly during thunderstorms!

Sign

Okay.  I loved this sign.  You realize that rules are made because of people who are ignorant, or rude, or just plain mean.  Most rules come as an afterthought....when the incident they are making the rule about has taken place and they think, "GEE!  We should have had a rule about this so this wouldn't have happened."  Someone comes into a restaurant without shoes and makes people squeamish, so the owner puts up a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" sign.  Look at number 5 on this sign at the pool.  I am so glad I wasn't swimming the day they decided they needed this rule.   oooooooo.  (Imagine Ernest saying that.....) 

Well, that's my post for Scavenger Hunt Sunday.  I hope you enjoyed our little ride.  You can unbuckle your seat belts now, but wait until we come to a complete stop before you step out of the blog.....hold it.....hold it......oh, and go by Ashley's blog by clicking on the Scavenger Hunt Sunday badge on my side bar and look at how others have interpreted these prompts.  It's gonna' be fun!  Okay, you can step out of the blog seat now.

Random Five Friday

our library

These pictures will have absolutely nothing to do with the random thoughts.  I just ride around with my camera around my neck in the truck and point and shoot...and sometimes, I just LOVE what I caught  with my camera....and I loved these.  :)  Hope you think they are cool. ...and they will be accompanied by five random thoughts so I can join up with Random Thoughts Friday!

1.  I have had a Zune for at least 5 years....maybe more now....and have subscribed to Zune Pass all this time....where I pay $16 a month for the right to download as many songs as I want to my computer and put on my Zune....and then we had been getting 10 of those songs to KEEP and burn.  What a deal!!!  Then, for some unknown reason (I think it's because they didn't want to honor that anymore), I couldn't sign into my account and use my songs anymore this past week....tried everything...took down my firewall, changed passwords....opened up another account....called support....chatted with reps....nothing could get us into the account.  I was furious.  So, I dropped the membership...even though I knew I would be forfeiting the 10 songs we got to keep because we were grandfathered in (they stopped doing that about a year ago).  I figured it was alright....we could reopen the account and then just put them on our Zunes.  wrong.  AS SOON AS the rep cancelled our membership, I signed onto the account.  AS SOON AS.....so I thought, I'll just re-subscribe and we can still have those thousands of songs on our Zunes (both of my sons have them, too)....well, they have lowered the price to $10 a month, but now, you can only listen to them on your x-box and your computer....you have to BUY each song you want on your Zune.  HOLY COW!!!!  I have all this music on our computer that we can't listen to on our Zune anymore (Zune is an mp-3 player that is BETTER than all others!!!).   I am just sick.  Microsoft....you stink.  Truly.  Your  reps stink.  You stink for doing this to loyal fans who have been with you through thick and thin.....you should be ashamed!!!

part of the church that burned down in our downtown area...they are the ones rebuilding behind our house

2.  I just hate that I don't get to see my brother very often.  Growing up, I thought he was the cutest boy in the entire world...as did all my friends.....and on top of that, he was so sweet and kind....to everyone.  I don't think he ever got into a fight....he can correct me if that's wrong, but I think that's a true statement.  He was (and still is) and upstanding young man.  All his teachers loved to get me in their class because he had been such a wonderful student.  He was so quiet.  They were shocked when I couldn't keep my mouth shut.  Anyhow....it's sad that families have to move so far apart that after time, you don't feel like you know them that well anymore.  I wish families had to live in the same block....or at least, the same town.....and you had to visit each other once a week.  It should be a requirement.




Just liked the way these two tractors were left in the field....must have been lunch time!

 

3.  I think it's simply amazing that baby birds live to be adult birds.  When we had those storms and the winds got up so high, we lost a couple out of our trees.  They just weren't ready to fly.  A grackle baby that was in our yard had to be rescued before our dogs could be let out....and he didn't WANT to be rescued....so Hubby got a shovel and scooted it under him, very much against his will, and then Hubby tossed him over our fence into the field....hoping he'd fly.  He didn't.  Apparently, it hurt him to be shoveled up, and later, I looked out and his wing was sticking up in the air, and he wasn't moving.  The next day,......honestly, I am not making this up.....there were 7 grackles standing in a circle around that baby, trying to get him up.  It made me really sad when they gave up, and one grackle stayed around.  It had to be the momma.  It was almost as if they had been having a memorial service for it.  I think birds are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. 

We have some baby birds in bird house in our tree.  HOW does that mama and daddy bird know which house has their bird house?????  Nature puts me in awe.

I thought this was a funny billboard to put next to a McD's sign. 
Also thought the fact that the birds poop on the McD's sign is funny. 

4.I am a pro at being a procrastinator.  Really.  I will think I will go and move my summer clothes down from the top racks and put my winter clothes on the top racks....and maybe by August, I might get it done.  Why do I do that?  I'd rather sit on here and write down my thoughts.  I get no reward from writing my thoughts.  I do get the reward of not having to reach so high for my short sleeved things by working on  my closet....why do I put it off?  Hubby gets irritated by my procrastinating sometimes.  It makes us rush a lot of times when I'm going to work.  He HATES being late.  Me, too, but I'm never late....always too early to clock in.  Truth be told, when it comes to going to work, I'd rather stay home with him.  Due time, due time.

This is the new children's clinic our hospital is building.  I hope it doesn't ever NEED that many offices.



5.  I can't get Blogger to let me out of the caption mode here....so it's tiny print.  AUGH.
Sometimes I hate electronics.  They seem so against me.  Sometimes, I love them.  I love being able to take a billion
pictures and not have to worry about having the money to have them printed.  I can print them if I want, or I can just
save them in the computer or on a card.  Wonderful.   So many blessings in this life....and you all are part of that list!

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Field Of Flowers For Fences On Friday

Last Saturday, I was off....can you believe it?  I couldn't!  After that storm we had, we went for a ride in the country and I spotted this field of flowers as we past by.  Too bad I didn't wait one more split second so that the tree on the left was more into the picture...then the field would have been centered...but you get what you can get when you just spot things as you drive by.  I thought it was a pretty view on a shady drive....with a very minimal fence....but it's there just the same.

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After The Storm

Last Wednesday, while my daughter and her family were gone to Disney world having the time of their lives, we were here having the storm of our lives.  We lost power for 14 hours.  We had straight line winds of 70 mph and hail that plastered leaves onto the new paint job we had just painted on my mom's house.  She had hail piled up in her front doorway and the rain was so hard, she and her male friend had to stop on the road and put on their flashers because they couldn't see the road in front of them.  We couldn't see the field out behind our house because it was pouring so hard  Our rain gauge said we got 2 inches in 7 minutes and my mom's had 4 inches.....and we are sure there was a tornado in those winds, though the weather people didn't think so.  We drove out in the country to see some of the devastation we had heard about..... to crops, barns and grain silos (I think that's what they are called).

Trees were broken in half, both in town and in the country....just broken like sticks.  In town, mostly limbs were broken off...but these trees were snapped in two.

 

 Can you see how that was crushed like a Coke can?

This is a different farm down the road from the other one....that roof just lifted right off...and the side of that grain thingy bent down, too.

The road out to that sight was closed down because power line towers were just snapped in two.  They have been working to get them back up.

That's part of a building they were working to either remove or place back where it belonged....not sure which.

I don't know if you can tell, but all the corn in all the fields was just shredded....they are going to have such huge losses because of the hail.

Another view of the second grain thingy....see how it's bent?

Flag pole just bent in half.

A young tree that was snapped.

More corn that won't be producing this year.

A street sign that was bent over.

And at home, from the rain produced  flowers.

At this very minute, we are having more thunderstorms.  One town close by had baseball size hail tonight.  So far, we have been spared the hail tonight.  I pray God will watch over us and our loved ones...and all of you.  Be safe.

The Hunt

Do you see what my dog, Zeke, saw in our tree?

How about now?

How about now?  On the fence there!  Just for a moment, that rascally squirrel hopped down on the fence just to torment Zeke....then he hopped back up into the tree and actually came down the trunk face first....staring into the muzzle of Zeke.....about three feet apart.

I tried to capture that moment, but the squirrel decided to duck behind the tree trunk.....around back.

Zeke left the tree.....sat watch in the yard....and guess what happened.....

That squirrel tried to make a run for the next tree, but.....

Zeke was there in a flash and that squirrel was back around the tree trunk like greased lightening.

This time, Zeke was not going to give up....but that squirrel decided to go around to the other side....

And while Zeke was standing guard at the base of the tree, that squirrel leaped onto the ground, unnoticed and ran across the yard before Zeke knew what was going on!

I stood in my kitchen laughing at Zeke and that squirrel.....

Here, he realized he missed out on chasing that tree devil!

 

I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked out a few minutes later, and Zeke was posed like this.....like a bird dog on the hunt....frozen like a statue....he must have thought if he stood still, that squirrel would come back....nothing doing!  After lunch, I opened up the kitchen window and that squirrel was on the privacy fence by my window....and he laughed out loud and jumped over onto the other side.  Maybe another day, Zeke....not today!