getting it done ~

I'm still working on my New Years resolution ~ simplify and de-clutter.  I won't bore you though with the details of my accomplishment.  Geesh... how did we accumulate so much stuff !

Then you come across something like this old picture of me and my younger brother at Halloween about 38 years ago and get side tracked ... yeah ... this project is going to take some time.

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I was standing at the sink doing dishes and I hear a pretty good thump on the deck door.  Oh no... another bird hitting the window. I look and see this woodpecker laying on the rug.  I figured I better go and get rid of it quick before the dogs finds it ~ because I know the dogs will eat it in one gulp.  I don't need that happening... the dogs eating a woodpecker, getting his or her gut full of feathers and  puncturing a lung or esophagus from it's beak as it's going down.

I go out to pick up the bird to take it to the garbage ~ and find that it's still alive.  Very much stunned, and I'm sure not feeling the best ~ but it was still alive.

I took it and set it on the grill out of the reach of the dogs ...

Poor little bugger ... it sat there, stunned as could be for 2 whole hours.  Truthfully, I thought it was a goner.  I even checked on it a few times thinking that it was dead or frozen in place ~  but then the last time I checked ... it flew away.

I watched it in a near by tree for about half an hour ...

then it came back to the bird feeder of suet as if nothing ever happened.

~ happy ending for the woodpecker ~

Until next time...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel