sing like wildflowers
My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.
recent posts
- Silent Sunday: reminiscing a relaxed time with family right before mom’s constant emergencies since last November & Ellis’ emergencies last fall
- Feeling this rabbit flop
- Field trip to Roaring Camp and the redwoods
- Recap of 8th hospitalization and now 9th hospitalization for mom
- Have a safe and happy Halloween!
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Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I’m so happy you are here. I’m an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature’s beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child’s heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you’ll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you’ll find some interesting posts to read!
19 responses to “A good door reminder”
Hmmm
Indeed a great reminder
A funny way to remember too…
Well sadly “the family” doesn’t understand and come anyway
They just invite themselves over voluntarily
They do
We have like 10 holes
And there’s no way to get rid of them.
Oh, they bring their extended relatives and stay for an indefinite time. Yikes… those pesky pests.
Yes they do
The huge one doesn’t enter the home
But little onces, especially mice can enter anytime
Thanks for the giggle. 😁
I’m so glad to hear that!
Ha ha – when I started feeding the birds those safflower seeds, I worried about just that, even though the side door was a good 20-25 feet from this little feeder. Yesterday I took all the seeds off the lava rocks and the cement sidewalk and threw them away … decided I was not going to get mice. I’ll either put it in the backyard in a feeder in the Winter or give it to the birds at the Park. The mealworms were bad enough waste of money. I started feeding the Cardinals and some Chickadees peanuts in the little feeder, only to find a squirrel embedded in the bushes this morning – now I won’t feed anybody until I come up with a squirrel-free plan.
Good idea, Linda! You don’t want to get mice. So easy to get but a pain to get rid of them.
The squirrels know how to get into the good stuff. In the fall, they get into everything around here and even dig up our container plants, which has nothing of interest for them either.
I think feeding Parker and the other friends at the park is a better thing than feeding close to your house.
BTW. I saw signs at a fire department for people setting off fireworks and that reminded me of your rowdy neighbors who set off fireworks, well before the fourth. Oh no, Linda, did they start already?!
After I switched the safflower seeds, which the squirrels don’t like, to shelled peanuts, the squirrels were crawling through the bushes to get to the peanuts – yesterday I told everyone “no more – you ruined it for the birds!” So decided no one gets food at the house – went out this morning, saw the Cardinal pair, felt badly. Came home to find the squirrels crawling through the bushes – this time I’m done with it … too bad as I would have enjoyed it as I did years ago. You are right … stick to the squirrels and birds at the Park and be happy for that. We have had rain going on today since noon, some of it torrential. Yesterday we had severe weather. But, even though I can hear rain coming down right now, people in the neighborhood are shooting off fireworks. Amazing isn’t it? We will have some rain over the holiday weekend – that’s good because I don’t want it too dry around here with all the fireworks something may catch on fire – I’ve had burnt shingles before. My handyman is coming Wednesday to clean the gutters (those pesky Maple seeds) – also good in case an errant firecracker lands in the gutter.
We are all having strange weather! I thought summers had no torrential rain for you. My goodness, didn’t you have enough over the winter?
Yep, I figured your neighbors would be overly eager and start shooting off fireworks. Does that scare your neighbor’s dog?
Good idea that you have a handyman coming out tomorrow to clean the gutters. Best to get that cleared out and keep things running smoothly.
Yes, no critters near the house or in the house! Ack. We sometimes get spiders in the house and these guys are visibly noticeable.
Our second day of three with bad air quality and today we were told that everyone should mask up, even if you were healthy and in an N95 mask on top of it. I did yard work while the handyman was doing gutters and had on my mask – it was gray outside with the same sun peeking thru like last week’s photo in my Wordless Wednesday post. Now a slew of thunderstorms on the way – as long as they aren’t severe I’m happy to keep the ground moist … I will be working inside taming the mess and hoping to get a walk in if possible at the Park. I think the neighbor’s dog would bark anyway Esther. This morning I was outside for two hours and it was sitting on the back of the sofa with the big screen TV blaring (this is all day long – I can’t hear that inside as this was in her living room … I can see in as she has no steps to get into the house and has no basement) … dog was howling and whining, not ten feet from where I was weeding. I called it a name or two or three. 🙂 Killed two centipedes in the house this morning from all the rain – I was beside myself … all before 5:20 a.m.!
We have mice in the detached garage. Ugh. They’re so cute but carry disease and we can’t let them stay in there. 😩 We got weather stripping for the door and traps at Home Depot today. 🤦🏻♀️
Yikes! That should get people’s attention!!
The family looks determined, don’t they? They’re going to bring all their relatives too.
They sure do!
Hahaha I love it!