Miss Sunny Flower
Posted by Emma Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:28:00 GMT
Do you like the colors?
Winter Birds
Posted by fabricpile Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:18:00 GMT
Yesterday we saved a little junco who knocked himself silly against our window.
Today we watched the sharp-shinned hawk swoop in and scatter the other birds—three of which bonked into windows in their panic.
We brought this junco indoors so he wouldn’t freeze to death while he was stunned.
When he came to his senses, he began flying around inside the house. After a lifetime of watching birds taunt them through windows, our cats were delighted by this twist and even mustered the energy for a chase. Kira finally caught the little guy and let him go outside, but not before he had lost a few feathers. Sonnet collected a couple of the fallen feathers in her mouth—perhaps to impress Heloise with the appearance that she had finished off the poor bird herself.
We watched the hawk as he flew into one of our small pine trees and came out with a chickadee in his talons.
Feeding the Birds
Posted by fabricpile Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:03:00 GMT
We don’t discriminate when we feed the birds. The little birds come to eat the seeds, and the birds of prey sometimes show up at the Song Bird Smorgasbord.
We thought that this might be a merlin, but it’s more likely that it is a sharp-shinned hawk. It’s a juvenile and identification was not easy. In single-digit temperatures, all it takes is a little food to bring out all kinds of beautiful birds.
Mary X-mas and Her Helper
Posted by fabricpile Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:56:00 GMT
Every year, Pop-Pop The Christmas Elf makes us a fabulous wreath to decorate the outside of our house.
Of course, Mary Christmas is the official Chief Decorating Officer. She oversees all holiday decorations and good cheer.
This year we have two new neighbors who can enjoy it with us.
Snow
Posted by fabricpile Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:42:00 GMT
Didn’t feel like making breakfast this morning, so we sent the kids outside to eat snow. We’ll make sure EmmaX eats enough to last until her next visit to the Northlands.
Looks like X ate too much snow:
The kids decided to bury Max, as well:
I suppose I should get busy making the hot cocoa!
X-tra Girl Here at the Bog
Posted by fabricpile Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:00:00 GMT
Don’t worry, Mom and Dad. They let me in the house right after I finished shoveling the driveway.
Reason to Celebrate!
Posted by fabricpile Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:16:00 GMT
Our good friend from our days at Indiana University, Stephen Hicks, became a US citizen yesterday!
The Citizenship Committee no longer screens for Canadian accents, eh?
Congratulations, Stephen.
Welcome
Posted by joek Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:25:00 GMT
We’ve resisted long enough and concede that we should have updated The Log to a Blog long ago.
You now have an RSS feed and can start commenting. We look forward to hearing from everyone!
Special thanks to all who have contributed to building Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Typo .
