GEEKS! We're dirty, nerdy geeks.
You know you're a grown up when the thing you want most in the world is a motion-activated camera to put out by your bird feeders so you can sneek peeks at your avian buddies. So my Christmas present to us was the Wildgame Innovations 6.0 Mega Pixel Digital Game Scouting Camera With Infrared Flash and Realtree Camo. (Amazon shopping link)
Realtree Camo!
So far we've captured shots of male and female cardinals, house finches, gold finches, black-cap...
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An antique cast iron weather vane for the backyard of the new house. Mama bird with her 3 babies. That's me! :)
I love it. Thank you Fifi, Will, and Dave!
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Taking care of the winter birds, originally uploaded by Alana Waters-Piper.Dave and Sophia tending to the feeders in the backyard.
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FLOR!, originally uploaded by Alana Waters-Piper.Baby knees need something soft to crawl on. I found out that FLOR has an outlet site, then picked up 20 of the 19.7" tiles in "Curry" @ only $5.99 apiece. Score! Plus I love how the mustard yellow breaks up all the blue and green in here.Can you tell that winter is my nesting time?Speaking of nests, this morning I woke up to a handful of cute little black-capped chickadees on the flat box feeder that hangs outside the window seat in the living room. A couple of days ag...
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(OK, we totally just watched James Franco on the Tizzle Wizzle Show again. Jammies, pills, & knives!)Winter always makes me long for the outdoors and this year we're all about the birds. We were inspired by this DIY version of a much more expensive lamp from Anthropologie as well as a cute mobile of perched birds on sticks. Sophia and I have been itching to get crafty, so perhaps one of these will be our next project.PS: I love granny square afghans and am completely puzzled by Anthropologie selling them for $250...
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Ever since reading an article that says birds have a 60% better chance of making it through the winter with help from people, our new family hobby is taking care of the birds who stay around our area.We've been reading up on how to attract wild birds to our backyard and learning how to help them survive our Chicago winters. We got a heated bird bath to provide water and have hung a few different types of feeders. We put out thistle, suet, black oil sunflower, and a general wild bird mix. Birds especially need suet fo...
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