We went Blueberry picking!!! Piper Farms has the best blueberries! Even though there can be lots of cars in the parking lot the farm is so big it is eay to have lots of rows to yourself! We could not even see many other people but we could hear them. One lady had a phone that rang a lot and it had a cool souding song for a ring tone. Also there were a group of women picking blueberries and were talking in a different language and they were having such a good time and laughing and we wished we could understand what they were saying!We went hiking at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge!!! We have not been there in a long time! The ponds were really full of cattails which give birds lots of good places to hide and hang out. It was a great weekend!
We have not been having many adventures lately because mom has working on some projects around the house. We bought these cool bar stools at a thrift store for $14.99 each! They are solid wood! When we got them home and started to clean them up mom decided they needed to be refinished. So she proceeded to spend about 8 hours sanding them with 3 kinds of sandpaper, bought wood stain, polyrethane, brushes, a special cheescloth thing to apply the stain, more brushes, more sandpaper… It look three coats of polyurethann not sure how to spell poliiyurethan with guess what more Sanding between each coat. Between all the supplies and our time these barstools are now worth about $500 each. Mom says we will never do a furniture refinishing project ever again!This is our Shady Garden project that is still in progress. Mom was thinking about hiring someone to remove all the sod but then decided to do it herself. So most weekends we are out here cutting the sod, digging it up, removing the dirt, moving the sod around to dry out, and finally putting it in the yard waste bin. Then the fun part starts – putting in plants that love the shade!OMG – a couple weeks ago we were walking around the yard and saw two baby birds laying on the ground! They did not have feathers yet and their eyes were closed they were really small and fragile and we looked and looked and finally after about half an hour we found the nest they fell out of. Mom put on gloves and carefully put them back in the nest. Then we checked on them every couple of days and they were doing great! The Mom Bird was obviously feeding them and sometimes from a distance we could see her coming and going to the nest and the chicks got big and strong and one day the nest was empty – they had fledged! Normally you should leave the nest alone but mom was worried that the nest was in a poor location and some other animal might be trying to steal the chicks. I am a Tiger but I would never do that. But maybe a Wild Tiger who was really hungry might.
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