Day 103 of 365 Days of Being Thankful

        Today I am thankful for a crazy, wild "blue" bird.  It has kept me entertained most of the afternoon. As I've said before, it doesn't take much to entertain me. Nature is the best entertainment and it is free!  It really beats watching TV or doing chores! Renee bought me the birdhouse on the window.  It is suctioned to the window and we can see inside of it. There are twigs inside of it so at one point a bird must have been making a nest but it was never finished. I have read that birds need to eat  half  their body weight everyday. This bird is at the feeder all day long. He must have gotten the wrong info because I think he is eating 10 times his body size!! I tried typing the bird's description into google but I couldn't find an exact match! This bird goes from the bird house he is on to the feeder to the tree to the tiki torch, then to the feeder again, and then to the other two birdhouses.  Except for his pecking the glass window, he is in flight from perch to perch or he/she is at the bird feeder. I loved watching the blue streak across the yard as it goes from place to place.

         I typed bird weight into google and this is what I found. (General Consumption Guidelines. On average, birds eat approximately 1/2 to 1/4 of their body weight every day. For example, a 2 lb. cardinal, a seed-eating bird, would consume approximately 1/2 to 1 lb. of seeds per day.  As a rule of thumb, the smaller the bird, the more food it needs relative to its weight. A Cooper's Hawk, a medium-sized bird that hunts other birds, eats around 12% of its weight per day. For you, if you weigh … say … 150 pounds, that's 18 pounds of chow — roughly six extra-large pizzas.)       I LOVE pizza but I could not eat 6 extra large pizzas in a day.

I don't know if it is a real bluebird or just a  partly "blue" bird.
  
      This bird keeps flying into my glass patio doors. It really wants to come in. I shut the blinds so that it could figure out it was a pane of glass but it still kept pecking and flying into the glass patio door. He/she also keeps pecking at the glass of  my kitchen window.  All morning long, I hear peck, peck, peck on the glass! It looks like it's a regular wild bird that blends in with the color of nature.  However, when it flies, a blue streak of color ribbons across the sky.  The blue color must be under the wings and on the back that is covered by the wings.

You can see a small hue of blue on the bird.

The  bird blends into the color of nature but if you look closely, you can see it on the top of the tiki torch.

Olivia wants to open the door and let the bird in, I don' think that is a good idea, we may never get it out again.  My cat would eventually get it even though he isn't the brightest bulb on the block!

        Update on the Too Tall Bunny...he is now stomachless! His new name is Bunny Legs Only!

     Yesterday I had a checkup at my family doctor's.  He gave me scripts to get an x-ray and blood work done.  When I went to get the blood work done, the LabCorp office was closed for lunch so I went and got a bagel and then went back.  When I went back, I was the only person in the waiting room.  The young nurse came out and told me her computer was down so I said I'd wait 15 minutes and see if it came back up.  She looked about 20!  Anyway, we started chatting and she told me that she had a four year old daughter and  her fiancé/daughter's father had just died a few months ago and that it was really difficult working full time and supporting her  4 year old daughter by herself. She said people don't understand that she and her daughter were still grieving, I told her about Amy. She said her daughter cries everyday for her daddy and people tell her that eventually she'll forget him.  Why would she ever  want her daughter to forget her dad and how much he loved her? People can say stupid things. She said that social security checks kept her from going under.  She had no relationship with her mother, she was a deadbeat and she hadn't spoken to her for years.  I know what that feels like because I have not spoken to my mother for 30 years. I kept thinking about her all day yesterday.  Today I went back for bloodwork and she was there again. We chatted again and she told me that she was 38!  Black people age so well! She laughed when I said that. After we finished the lab work, I gave her $20 and told her to buy something for her daughter.  She got all teary and thanked me and I am grateful that I had the ability to help her.

Work on the GLAM ROOM continues.  Olivia painted the handles for her white chest a glossy white.  They should look  great against the turquoise drawers.

Empty GLAM ROOM

Dan is thinking of leaving the ceiling with an industrial look.  There is paint that we can buy to mask it a bit. Adam told us we can buy a type of foam paint.  We'll have to check it out at Home Depot and look on youtube.  We will still have someone come in to give us an estimate to redo the ceiling.  Yesterday we ate at MOD Pizza and they have an industrial look ceiling and  it looked great! I think if just the wire parts were covered, it would be fine the way it is. The three of us are going to visit Olya on Friday.  We will rake a leisurely drive, about an hour and a half, and stop along the way at anything that catches our fancy! Olya has class until 2:15 so we don't have to rush to get there.  Olya is the one who planned this with Dan, I am glad she misses us and wants us to visit her.  I am thankful for that. We'll pick up sandwiches at WAWA or Sheetz and I'll pack some drinks We'll go to the place where Dan likes to watch trains and we'll eat and watch trains and then have to drive Olya back to her dorm. Olya has only a few weeks of school left so we'll take home some things she doesn't need any more.  We have to leave to come home by 5 or so because I have dinner plans with a group of friends.