I had never been to a dump before until today.  We are throwing away our jacuzzi and Mark cut it in half with a saw.   We loaded one half on my kayak wheels and wheeled it down the side of the house.  I thought my wheels were going to POP !  We heaved it into the truck with Megan’s help.  We them drove to the dump and I got to see what other people were throwing away.  I bet we looked kind of funny with half a jacuzzi.  Things people were dumping - dirt, wood, tiles, well… just junky stuff.  When we go back to dump the other half, I will be sure to take my camera and share the complete experience.

Here is a picture of a dump:

This looked like the dump I went to.  Very organized.  They have to cover it all up at night with dirt and mulch.  The mulch and trash smelled like sour milk… yuck!  I had to hold my breath until we got up wind of it all.

The picture above came from this site:  http://science.howstuffworks.com/landfill3.htm  You can learn all about landfills and how they work.  I’ll read it later….

Tags: dump

I was looking through a box of family photos in search of Ollie sitting in the bird’s nest (see post below) and I found these two adorable pictures:

Me - the Mom and Heather - the Daughter

Do you think photographers posed their clients the same way through the years, or is it second nature to sit in this manner with your hands folded on your knee?

Tags: Family, photos

I own 5 zebra finches.  2 males and 3 females.  I have owned finches on and off for the last 30 years or more.  I now have an outdoor cage - made for lizards - but works great for the finches.   They have room to fly a bit and they love taking baths in a freshly washed water dish.  Here is their home:

I can’t put a nest in the cage or they won’t stop laying eggs and having babies.  I have already had 5 babies and that was enough.  They lay eggs in their food dishes, but I just throw them out.  Because….  Once I thought I would let them have their babies in the green food dish.  Well, they were very cute, two little babies… until I scared them by feeding the birds and one fell out.  Then the other one fell out.  I tried to move the dish to the bottom of the cage and put the babies back in, but they eventually died on the bottom of the cage.  Very sad…. no more babies born in food dishes.

 Years ago I found a very large bird’s nest out on the street.  It must have fallen out of the Eucalyptus trees and belonged to a large bird….. because Ollie our cat used it for a bed:

This last weekend we helped move a bed from our daughter Heather’s place to our daughter’s Samantha’s room and walking up the steps to the condo I found a little bird’s nest.  Heather said it had been there all week and no one had picked it up… but leave it to me to pick it up.  Here are my three little bird’s nests and a wooden bird that was my Grandma Agnes’s.  The smallest bird’s nest belonged to a hummingbird.  My mom gave it to me.  I found another one just like it in one of the walnut trees at her house about a month ago and stuck it in an outdoor wreath.  Very cute…

Tags: birds

I walked out in the front patio the other day and saw this little flower.  It made me so happy :)  How cute is that flower?!

I have just recently re-planted my strawberry pots with many different varities of succulents.  The one that bloomed looks like little toes.  I have never seen it bloom before and was kinda surprised.  The flower is open in the sun and closed in the night.

This succulent is called “Fenestraria Rhopalophylla” officially. 

Tags: plants, succulents

If you are looking at my blog you will notice I have been changing things - pictures, themes, etc…  It is still a work in progress.  I have to work a real job now… no more having fun in Photoshop and updating my blog

Hope you have a great day!