Good err...Day! Man is it cold here! No matter what I do, I just can't seem to warm up today. I seem to have this problem a lot lately. I HATE the cold...I mean really HATE the cold.
Staying home with Barko today and really enjoying it....if only I could warm up. Did I mention I am REALLY cold...but I digress...as I type I am really struck by how cool this new birdfeeder I got is. It is just a very plain and simple feeder in hopes that the cardinals that live in our trees would find it inviting....

well they have

(that second one was just for you, Todd!) Here is the deal with me an birdfeeders...as a kid growing up, my grandpa had this thing for nature....especially birds. He lived in the city of Chicago, and nver missed an opportunity to feed the birds, squirrels or whatever animal came his way. This was always amusing to us kids, but not so much to my grandma. She used to get especially mad when he took to feeding the squirrels by had and all of us grandkids would follow suit. We of course learned that from my grandpa. To my delight, soon after we moved into our new house, I saw a cardinal in our tree. This was one of my grandpa's favorite birds...so naturally, I figured my grandpa must be living in our trees

we had to run to Lowe's for something a couple of nights ago and I HAD to walk down the birdfood aisle. Greg just had that

look to him. I I grabbed a suet cake and a cage and Greg quickly told me to put it back...that was stupid. I got a little

and told him Great! Now my grandpa is going to starve..well that just induced a little

So we left with no suet cake or cage....and to be honset, all the feeders they had were just plain ugly. So I had to have a key made and went to Ace Hardware...no Greg and some real neat and cheap birdfeeders. I bought one and hung it on our tree...filled it with some birdfood that attracts cardinals and

I have found that we not only have my Grandpa in the tree, but my uncle and their two girlfriends as well

It was actually my mom that came up with my uncle and their girlfriend story...she had a good chuckle out of me telling her Greg would not let me buy Grandpa some food. Anyway, here I sit just watching one of the girlfriends toss all that good food right to the ground. She will take a mouthful and just spit it out...or take her beak and push it all off of the feeder. Wish I has Todd's camcorder to take pics of it, as it really is quite funny. Ok, that is my story for the day...and I am still cold. I am even thinking I may just have to make Barko share one of his many blankies!!
Amanda, is there something you NEED to tell us? Spill it!!
Hey Todd
Kimmar....shoot, shuckie darn, swizzle sticks.....
Alan, that was bad....really bad!! But it did made me chuckle!
John, sound like you guys need to have a little techie party or something!
Pammy, looks like you may have some new writters for your column...you could call it Look Who's KISSing this Week...or something like that!! I gather it would be a very short column
RM, better hone up those writting skills...Pammy may have a job for you...you too Paula!!
Hey Sherri, that is enough of the "s" word! It was quite frosty here this morning....and I am still freezing cold! Have a good day with your nephew!
Hey Suzanne, how goes it? What's for dinner tonight? You are going to have to send me some recipes. We need a little fun in our food these days..a little excitement..ya know what I mean. I wa unpacking the other day and came across some kool aid that I need to send you. It did make me laugh when I saw it though.....
Bethie, sound like a fun trip!! I think I would have been grossed out by the carrot cake too.....that is why you have CHOCOLATE cake instead. Have I ever told you...Pop Century has teh BEST chocolate cake....ever? Yum-o!
Well, I think I am going to get my roast ready for the oven. Methinks if i get the over on, maybe, just maybe it will warm up in here...and I would not have to resort to stealing Barko blankies.....
Have a great day one and all....more later...when something exciting happens
