July 30th, 2010
From the amount of time I sometimes hold onto things, you might think I’m a hoarder but that isn’t the case at all. We frequently purge “stuff”, but it seems like we rarely need to throw something in the trash.
If it’s clothing or small household items, we’ll donate them to Amvets, Salvation Army, or [...]
July 23rd, 2010
It’s hot and humid, and while we thankfully have central air conditioning, we certainly don’t want to work on any projects outside. So recently we’ve been turning our efforts to the basement, which had become rather disorganized ever since our attic remodel last summer (it’s been a year since the contractor finished up with us—that [...]
July 22nd, 2010
One minute our robin fledgling was standing on the edge of the nest, and the next s/he was gone! All that’s left is the well-constructed nest and a little poop.
On Tuesday, sometime soon after I posted about it we noticed the nest was empty and we haven’t seen the robin family since. I heard a [...]
July 20th, 2010
Not only do we have our garden growing like gangbusters, thanks or no thanks to all the rain we’ve had this summer, but we also have a baby robin who looks ready to leave the nest very soon.
We’re not sure what happened to the other two eggs, but there always seemed to only be one [...]
July 6th, 2010
I think it was the weekend before the holiday weekend, or about 12 days ago, when Pete and I noticed that a robin was busily building a nest in our sumac next to the patio. She was picking up dried grass from the neighbor’s freshly mowed lawn and also bringing some “muck” from the gutter. [...]