Silly bird...

We have a strange phenomenon occurring here again this spring. A bluebird flies around and straight into our sunroom windows. It flutters around from window to window. This has happened the past 4 springs. Here is what we think is happening. What do you think?

In June 2004, we moved 3 trees in preparation for adding onto the house. This evergreen was on the west side of the house, which you can see on the far left of the pic.
In this pic, this evergreen was in the hole kind of in the center of the picture. Look at the roofline...it will be referred to later.
Here is the addition built in the summer of 2004. Can you identify the previous west side of the house? Find the wood stove chimney. The horizontal roofline is over the library addition, and then the sunroom is to the west (left) of that. The upper windows of the sunroom is where this silly bird flies around. We think it is looking for the tree we moved. It hasn't figured out where we moved it to. What can we do? The poor thing can't build a nest. Oh, the trials, oh, the confusion...

Home, Home on the Range

Well, Annisia is still not feeling too hot. I took her to the pediatrician yesterday and her chest was still clear but she was beginning to get an ear infection. So she's on meds for that. Something new for me. Jonathan has never gotten an ear infection. Annisia is really quite mellow...wants to be held a LOT. Hates to have her nose wiped. Wants to have lots of baths and never get out of the tub. Wants to play with all her brother's toys...which he won't allow. So we wait until he goes to Gramma's for the day (like yesterday), and she has free rein! (hee, hee.. sneaky, aren't we?!)

So today, while Annisia napped, Jonathan and I went outside. I LOVE having a baby monitor. Ours is a video one, so I can "look in on her" from anywhere! Today is one of those "Home, Home on the Range" days...where the skies are not cloudy all day, and the antelope run through our front and back yards and Jonathan gets to yell at them, "Bzziu, bzziu! Get out of here!" I was helping him get his sandbox loader tractor back to his sandbox (so "the antelope won't get it", as they were standing only 20 feet from it, gasp!). I glanced up and saw these two birds on our wireless computer dish thing (can you tell I am not a geek?!). A beautiful little blue bird who a few minutes later did this in the sky flutter thing with another blue bird. And a house finch who has a nest in one of our front fir trees.
The birds flew off over the front yard, and I was hoping to see if I could get a picture of the "in the sky flutter thing", so I went around to the front too. Jonathan wanted to see too, and ran after me. He discovered these snow drifts remaining in our front yard. By now, they have settled and hardened, so it was great fun for him to run on them.
This pic didn't turn out the best, but you can see the little spot of grass in the right lower corner. Those are big rocks from digging for our addition's foundation there in the foreground. Jonathan is standing on a drift that's close to 3 feet tall.
And here, he's running out from the "hole" by the tree. This is a tree we had to dig out and replant when we added on. I think it's going to make it!

We went back into the back yard and Jonathan started playing in his sand box. All of a sudden, he said, "There's the moon!" And, sure enough, there was the faint quarter moon...not an easy thing to see in our bright blue WY skies. Jonathan said, "It's all wrapped up in love, Mommy." (I think because he couldn't see the whole thing, he thinks something is covering up part of it?) "I like to be all wrapped up in love too, Mommy." Melts my heart!

Then we came in the house for lunch. I don't understand why Jonathan only weighs 27.5#. He ate: a 1 piece of bread PBJ sandwich, a piece of cheese, 8 black grapes, 1/4 cup peas, 6 Fritos, and 6 oz whole milk! Then, when he's full, he usually says, "Mommy, I'm fat! Daddy's full, I'm fat!"