Search, Discover, Share.

I spent most of my kids lives in Cub Scouting. The words above are the ‘motto’ for the first grade cubs. I’ve always liked those words. It usually fits my mindset. When I took my own boys for walks, we’d pick up crazy things and wonder about them. Why is there blood inside the robin egg fragment? How can this fat old fuzzy bumble bee fly (it was a dead bee we found)? How come sand is made up of so many zillions of things? It made learning how to cook a science experiment. What puts out fire? (that was more me when I set the oven on fire with candy cane cookies. Little Bear helped put it out.) Anyway, I was reading through blogs this morning and ran across Ellie’s. So many fun questions!!!!

Her duck comments made me realise I’m going to miss ducks this year. I will NOT feed the ones on the lake this spring and summer. Mum always did and I just can’t do it anymore. Too expensive. Besides, I’ve always felt it hazardous. (in the summer, people are encouraged to not feed birds due to the bears in the area. Mum always ignored that..even when the people across the lake lost a goat to a grizzly!) The rodents are also a pain in the butt. As many followers may recall!!! The ducklings are cute, but they really belong on the lake. Besides, the only ones who came up were mallards. They can adapt!!! And feeding the families or not won’t keep them alive after the predators discover the little ones.

I recently read a book my friend in Shanghai sent me. (Amazon is truly amazing!!!) Moses wanted to help rend it..READ it. But, the oddest part was a comment I got from a FB follower. ‘What a terrible book title!’ That friend obviously doesn’t have a intimate relationship with ‘The Princess Bride‘. I read this new book. It was good, but definitely NOT Goldman. Why do people make comments about things they are not familiar with??

I’ve found a new word game to play on my ipad. It isn’t my favorite one, it appears that game was discontinued. (I’m rolling my eyes) I needed a new game because the jewels puzzle game I’d play every day stopped working after the last update. So, I went back to words. I contacted the games app and even though I told them EVERYTHING I had already done, they asked to make sure I’d done it. (I may not be technologically on the map, but I can figure many things out with google. Searching and discovering!) How come something is replaced when it is perfectly useful the way it is? OK, I get some changes are good, but not all of them!

The Craftsman bought some seed to go in a feeder Little Bear purchased. The feeder is made for small seed. So, The Craftsman bought Nyger seed. He thought it was thistle seed. I decided to use it anyway. (I really really need to get a seed bag!) It made a huge mess, I dropped the feeder in the snow (the feeder is hanging so you can barely see it), and even my broken ceramic duck, Ida, is unimpressed! It looks a great deal like pepper and I’m not entirely sure how old the seed is, my hands smelled dusty after I filled the feeder. I wish the guys researched birds and feeders as much as they do other thing! On the other side of the yard, the sunflower seed feeder has also made a mess. Finches are not tidy. Whoever coined the phrase ‘eat like a bird’ must not have watched many of them. They are voracious slobs! (Even Meepette-the metal bird-is irritated by the hull thing!)

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Spring really really might be on the way. Today we had a forecast of 100% precipitation. Rain, rain and snow, rain, and at the moment the expected freezing rain isn’t happening yet. 38 degrees! :o) The snowflakes were so heavy they left ripples in the pud muddles!!!!!! I even have a hint of crocus thinking about peeking from the ground-they are hiding in the brown locust leaves! I’m still a fan of snow, but I’d really like to see these beauties bloom before I leave!

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I did decide I’d wear my green St Paddy earrings this week. Since they were in Oregon and I was in Alaska, I’d not worn them in a few years. They still fit!!!

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I think I’ll close there. Many thoughts have been stirred by different blogs I’ve read today. But, the most important thing I think I’ve gotten from them today is to enjoy what you have in front of you and be thankful. Now, I better go unload the dishes. (Hooray for a working water system where I can wash them! I even washed me today! Little Bear objected a bit to the thieves oil coconut oil mixture I used on me, it smelled up the house! I laughed.)