Speaking of boredom...
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A bit of beauty to keep the kids occupied for a few moments... River Birds[^]
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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A bit of beauty to keep the kids occupied for a few moments... River Birds[^]
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
Here's an app idea for anyone who's bored: Shazam for bird songs. I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise, I only know it by its Latin name of tweetius illegitemun
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Here's an app idea for anyone who's bored: Shazam for bird songs. I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise, I only know it by its Latin name of tweetius illegitemun
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
PeejayAdams wrote:
I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise,
His name's Ralph. He hates you, and takes great pleasure in waking you up. Oh, the type of bird...that, I don't know. For years now, I've had a woodpecker pecking on the 40-foot antenna just outside my window anywhere between 4:30 and 6:00am almost daily, from spring to roughly mid-summer. Being made of aluminum, the loud clang-clang-clang wakes up the whole neighborhood.
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PeejayAdams wrote:
I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise,
His name's Ralph. He hates you, and takes great pleasure in waking you up. Oh, the type of bird...that, I don't know. For years now, I've had a woodpecker pecking on the 40-foot antenna just outside my window anywhere between 4:30 and 6:00am almost daily, from spring to roughly mid-summer. Being made of aluminum, the loud clang-clang-clang wakes up the whole neighborhood.
Ralph - I knew it! I used to have a bird that pecked at my window, which was as bad as it was inexplicable, but a metal pole? You have my deepest sympathies. To think that people complain about cats eating the wildlife ... :)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote:
I'd love to know the name of the bird that keeps waking me up a good hour before sunrise,
His name's Ralph. He hates you, and takes great pleasure in waking you up. Oh, the type of bird...that, I don't know. For years now, I've had a woodpecker pecking on the 40-foot antenna just outside my window anywhere between 4:30 and 6:00am almost daily, from spring to roughly mid-summer. Being made of aluminum, the loud clang-clang-clang wakes up the whole neighborhood.
Makes me think of the first chapter of the novel "And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game[^]. If you get hold of a copy, read it! It is hillarious! (But it helps to be old enough to have some memory of the cold war.)
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A bit of beauty to keep the kids occupied for a few moments... River Birds[^]
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ralph - I knew it! I used to have a bird that pecked at my window, which was as bad as it was inexplicable, but a metal pole? You have my deepest sympathies. To think that people complain about cats eating the wildlife ... :)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
I'm convinced it's part of some sort of mating call. If it's a contest between woodpeckers as to who can be the loudest...he wins. He's also been making a lot of damage to trees in the area. Some of them look like [this](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-stock-photo-of-woodpecker-holes-in-a-tree-trunk-12906337.html) (not my picture, but you get the idea).
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Makes me think of the first chapter of the novel "And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game[^]. If you get hold of a copy, read it! It is hillarious! (But it helps to be old enough to have some memory of the cold war.)
Hardcover $119, paperback $2507. Well, I won't be getting it from [Amazon](https://www.amazon.ca/Nephew-Albert-Leave-Island-Fatty/dp/0340043237).
