RE: fat birdies< wish I was my pet

Venting is very important dear - you need to do that too to stay sane.
Jesse and Pat do that all the time. That's what I'm here for, I have no
husband or offspring to drive me bonkers thank God. And Marge is right -
keep on gardening!!


:-D

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Theresa- yahoo" <tchessie@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:27:39 -0800

>It's not that cold here- but I often wish I could change places with my cat!
>Especially today- some idiot came to fix a problem with my palm pilot
>talking to my PC- and managed to completely lock up my palm pilot to the
>point I had to turn off the battery to reset it (thus losing everything on
>it) and then proceded to try to install and uninstall unrelated programs on
>my PC.  I kicked them out before they got any further than installing
>ANOTHER virus scan.  What a giant pain!
>
>OK- feel better now.
>Theresa
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
>Behalf Of Pamela J. Evans
>Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:38 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] fat birdies
>
>
>I think the birds are doing better than I am. This weather is
>abominable. And colder tonight. I looked at Sugar sleeping contendedly
>in front of the gas heater when I left this morning and wished we could
>trade places....
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Richard T. Apking" <richa@midlands.net>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:50:29 -0800
>
>>Pam--How are you making it?  Here after the nice weather about 10 days ago,
>>it is now zero, the high today was 6, expected to warm up to the low 20's
>>this weekend.  I have quite a bunch of birds here, the finches (house,
>gold,
>>and purple) generally munch down on the niger seed.  The sparrows,
>>cardinals, jays, nuthatches, and, believe it or not, the woodpeckers and
>>some black with gold speckled really ugly bird eat sunflower hearts.
>>Started using them so there wasn't so much debris around the feeder.  There
>>are a couple of white pine trees near the feeders, so some cover is
>>provided, also a heated bird bath, which really gets a workout.  Rich,
>>freezing in Z-5
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Pamela J. Evans" <gardenqueen@gbronline.com>
>>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:51 PM
>>Subject: [CHAT] fat birdies
>>
>>
>>> On a different note (ha) I just thought I'd share a bird feeding
>>> observation. I've always fed the regular wild bird seed mixed half and
>>> half w/ black oil sunflower seeds, and the birdies have thrived on this
>>> for years. This year, I added a thistle/niger seed feeder for the
>>> finches (most of the purple coneflower heads are picked clean by now)
>>> and have started using that no-waste bird seed (from Gardens Alive). Not
>>> cheap, but holy cow are the birdies LOVING it. One of my robins is so
>>> fat, he can barely hop. He's too cute. And all my cardinals are fatter
>>> than ever. Sometimes I mix the high dollar food w/ the regular bird seed
>>> too (when I'm waiting for a delivery) but it's OK w/ the birdies. Quite
>>> cold here and getting colder by the minute. Sugar is at my feet and only
>>> stayed out about 90 seconds when I let her out on her tether today. My
>>> mourning doves are just waddling. That makes me happy because I know
>>> they will weather the cold snap (20 degrees below normal for the next
>>> three days). And I have shelters for the doves and ground hugging birds
>>> built back under he tree line, short limbs laid out in a box pattern
>>> full of fluffy leaves. Very sheltered and secure.
>>>
>>> How do y'all up North keep your biries going in such abominable cold??
>>Just curious.....
>>>
>>> Pam
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pam Evans
>>> Kemp TX/zone 8A
>>>
>>>
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>Kemp TX/zone 8A
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