~ Fighting Turkeys and Geese ~ Birdhouses ~ Animal Crackers ~

Good 43º raining (sigh...) morning.

Started late yesterday and rained all night.

The ground is mushy!

Not too an exciting day yesterday. I did manage laundry, dishes (no dishwasher yet), emails, sorting the beads that I dropped on the floor the other day (groan), and putting up a birdhouse on an L bracket.

OO-RAH! (It's a USMC birdhouse)  Then my drill ran out of juice. So, today or tomorrow I'll put up more. For now they are on the porch rails

Most of these I got from Gary. He is the supreme birdhouse maker in Rogue River! 

 

 .... >>>>this one my neighbor Frank made....

 

<<< and last year a house with baby blue birds was invaded by a raccoon and all were lost. Putting them up high this year in hopes that doesn't happen.

Oh, and this is the one that fell over during one of our porch 'happenings'>>>>>

Funny, in the morning yesterday I heard my geese honking. I went out and put some corn. The flew down from the top of the barn. Soon some Tom turkeys

were there and started chasing the geese away. I was P*SSED so went out and chased the turkeys away! (Someone should have had a camera! PJ's and slippers.... wet grass...) All the while I did this, the geese HONKED and HONKED. What characters. Then they ate some corn. The turkeys returned and went after the geese again. AGAIN, I went out and chased the turkeys away. Sigh.... You'd think geese would be more aggressive.

I love signs. Some of these are nutz!

Drizzle started again about 3pm.

Historically this date...

1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

1906 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire destroys much of San Francisco, California.

1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.

1923 – Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built," opens.

 This stadium was torn down and a new one built in 2009 across the street.

And births this date include....

1857 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney (d. 1938)

1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress

 

    Della Street on Perry Mason!

1925 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2005)

    ..... poor guy! ..... poor schmuck! (Now really...

wouldn't you change your name!)

1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress

 

    

1947 – James Woods, American actor

 

1956 – Eric Roberts, American actor

 

1984 – America Ferrera, American actress

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Mundae.... Ciao.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

April 18th

Animal Crackers Day