Birds nest

Just thought I would post a picture of the robins' nest, while I think of it. There are 4 babies and I think they still have another 3 days to 7 days before they are old enough to fly, the first one had hatched on June 3 and the according to vegsource.com they are ready to fly in 15 to 20 days. It looks a little crowded in that nest, I'm not sure there will be enough room for them in 7 more days.

One year.

It has been 11 days since I last posted, I had planned on posting last Sunday evening, but the power went out at 4:00 and I couldn't connect to the internet. I was off on Monday, and when I got back to work on Tuesday I wasn't able to get to it.

We finally got our power back at 2:30 AM Wednesday, Which meant not much sleep, because as you probably know, when the power comes, on things you didn't realize were on come on. Things like Bedroom lights and fans etc. I couldn't get back to sleep so I got up at 3:30 and began cleaning out the freezers and refrigerator. Everything in the freezer had thawed, luckily there wasn't much in there.

Charlie started helping out a guy down the road who has a tree removal business. It is supposed to be part time, but this week he has worked 4 11 or 12 hour days, and is going to work tomorrow. He didn't work today because he had a graduation open house he wanted to attend.

Here are some pictures of the robins. They were taken last week just before the rains came. '


I just realized it has been about a year since I started this blog. (I just checked, it has been exactly one year ago today).

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

More later.

Robin's Nest Update

When I posted the pictures of the robin's nest a couple of days ago, I didn't realize they were almost ready to hatch.

They look like little mice. On second thought more like tiny naked trolls with the little hair/feather tufts. I guess I have never seen baby wild bird, I've seen chickens, but never wild ones, and chickens have more feathers at birth.


We also have a nest in a cedar tree in the front yard. I thought those had hatched and flown a long time ago, but apparently not, as evidenced by this picture.



Our rhubarb has gone to seed, I never seem to get out there and pick it before it goes to seed, but it is rather pretty this way, but look at the size of the leaf compared to the chicken.

Pictures

As I mentioned in the last post, we have a Robin's nest in a fence post. So I thought I would take a picture if it. The picture of the eggs didn't turn out real well, but here it is any way maybe I can get another one later