Have You Ever Seen a Birdie Condo?
We have a nice patio cover off of our kitchen and family room. It has great shade cloth and it’s where Travel Man does all of his grilling. We also have birds, and its springtime so we have lots of birds flitting around the house. There is a cute couple of finches, or maybe swallows that come back to this particular spot on our patio cover every year. This year I was on a mission to make them move their nest location away from our patio cover. Mainly to relocate the mess that dribbles onto the patio.
In the little nooks where the birds normally build their nest we stacked a couple of rocks. I thought surely this will stop them from building. But lo and behold here’s what they did.
View from the ground View up at birdie level
There is a nest build right on top of the rocks squished up to the screen cloth on the patio cover. The birds diligently built this little nest because they are claiming their space. I was amazed at how hard they worked to build this nest. One bird would fly in and then the other, but there was so little space they could not squeeze in there at the same time. We briefly, and I do mean nano-second briefly, discussed knocking the nest down to avoid all of the mess. But when I cast my vote for the nest, I wanted to save it because the birds had worked so hard. There was some eye rolling over this decision by some of my family members.
The nest stayed, but oddly enough the birds did not. They “flew the coop” last week sometime. I guess they decided their tight quarters were not going to work. So, Travel Man said to tell you all, so you can tell your birdie friends, that we have a birdie condo for rent. Great location, warm weather, and a cat perched below watching your every move. This springtime story will go down in the family history books.
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Another Installment of When Travel Man’s Away…..
This has been kind of a funky morning. My theory is with a Road Warrior for a husband (aka Travel Man) nothing goes wrong around the house until he is away. Travel Man is in Alabama working this weekend, and there’s a few household glitches I thought I would share with you all.
- The patio screen door would not go back on the track. After a new an improved latte in my coffee mug this one is fixed. Just needed some caffeine to get past my frustration on this one.
- The washer has a quirky problem. We have a fancy new fangled front loading washer. If certain someone’s do not clean out their pockets properly sometimes things get stuck in this little filter/trap on the front of the washer. This was happening quite often so I got a lesson in how to fix it myself. So of course today, I had to clean out the trap- yuck, smelly water, and now we’re back in business. Who needs a washer warranty anyway.
- And my last quirk was that the first latte I made myself this morning had no espresso dripped into it. The filter folded over on itself, and the coffee never dribbled into the milk. This one happened before the previous two.
At this moment, I am happy to report that I got my latte, got everything fixed and in shape, and now on with my family weekend. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, and even if you are not, a Road Warrior is someone who makes their living while traveling from place to place or customer to customer, or job to job. On the road, in the air, not usually by bus or train unless they are in some remote location. My Travel Man is a Field Service Technician, and travels to plants all over the USA for his work. But the details there are a story for another day. Hope you all enjoy your Friday. Mine is much better now. Toodles!
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My Flower Collection
This is a small collection of flower pictures that I have taken since January. I love taking flower photos, and most of this group was taken at Disneyland. The huge roses, are from my rose bushes in my backyard. Very fragrant roses, love them. This is just a little collection for your springtime enjoyment.
Happy Friday to all.
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DIY Entryway Project – Finito!
Happy Thursday everyone. Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful week. My sister and her husband are here visiting from Montana, but I wanted to take a few minutes to blog about our finished project. This posting is coming to you in between snacking, and chatting. We finally have our entryway project completed, and wanted to share some pictures with all of you.
First of all a little history on why this project is such a milestone for Travel Man and myself. We will be celebrating our 10th anniversary this year and we have this little list of projects around the house to get done this year. You know the projects I’m talking about the one’s that you have left until you can get “around to it”. Well we’re working on our “around to it” list, and this is one of the projects to get completed. We are ecstatic that this one is coming off of the list. And the reward of the results when this one got done have just been great. It’s like a weight lifted off of your shoulders, because you’ve been wanting to get it done for such a long time.
The before pictures – tile removal, and pre-painting.
Mid Process- Painting Done & flooring in the Works.
Grandma’s Assistant Flooring Complete
The Finish Trim Work
The Finished Product. All done.
The painting technique that I did on the walls was a two-step process. First I rolled on some texture paint, sort of thick, and then got the swirls in the paint with a big 4″ brush. Once that dried for 24 hours I painted over the texturing with a semi-gloss paint. The color is a sea salt blue, and the sheen changes during the day with the light coming into the house. It was a fun process figuring out how I wanted to do the texturing, and I am pleased with how it turned out.
As I told you earlier it’s great to have this project off of our list. Next job we’re tackling is landscaping our front yard. Hopefully we can get this one done before the heat of summer arrives. Happy DIYing to all. What’s the next project on your “around to it” list?
