wow, it's cold wednesday!

wednesday morning the boys were in the kitchen hard at work.  i thought maybe they were cooking breakfast for all of us, but i was wrong.

they were boiling water so they could do a science experiment that they'd seen people do on tv.  the idea is you boil water, throw it out into the below freezing temperatures and the water will instantly turn into a snow-like vapor!  IT ACTUALLY WORKS!

ready, mom?

go!!!!

it worked!

they did this many more times until someone got hurt.  smudge ran out the door right as they were throwing a big glass of boiling water out.  all i know is we heard yelping, and smudge was sitting there looking hurt.  we don't know if some of the water landed on him or if the whole thing just scared him, so that was the end of the boiling water experiment.

while i was knitting, i noticed a cardinal in one of our apple trees!  cardinals are beautiful birds especially against the backdrop of snow!  i barely got a picture of it before the bully blue jay came and scared him away!

cardinal

bully blue jay

 photo of the day

2-9-11

hidden pictures

there are 3 blue jays hidden in this picutre.
i promise!

since we were having all these bird friends come by, i thought i would throw some bread out there one more time to see if they would come get any.  smudge was distracted by something else, so he didn't see me toss the bread out!

come and get it, little birdies!

i got my camera ready and laid down by the back door.  i could see those 3 blue jays in the trees, so i just knew they would come eat.  i even had the door open just enough to get my camera through!  i waited and waited, but they never came.  

daryl came through the living room and asked, "what are you doing?"  when i told him, he laughed and said, "of course they're not coming.  they're not stupid. it's too close to the house."  dream crusher!!!!
i stayed there a while longer, hoping to see the birds up close and hoping to prove daryl wrong, but they just stayed in the trees. bummer. (however, i saw a big blue jay swoop down and take a piece of the bread yesterday, thursday!  so daryl was wrong!  but now the bread is all gone because smudge found it!)

since i couldn't take bird pictures, i decided i wanted to knit a hat.  i was afraid i might not have the right size needles, but it didn't really matter anyway because when i found my pattern it looked like this:

SMUDGE!

apparently he had gotten hold of it earlier, and someone kindly got it away from him and put it on top of the lamp shade!  the little knob on top of the shade fit perfectly through this hole! argh...

quote of the day:  "birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?" ~ rose kennedy