I set about to have the Rubbermaid™ shed moved before fly-season started. I spent most of the winter tearing down the old, wooden duck-pen, & I spent most of March rebuilding the platform for the shed to sit on. The last week of March, I declared it to be time - we had exactly 1 day to get the plastic shed torn down & re-assembled in its final ( Read more... )

Crummy-Toes has recovered as well as he's probably ever going to - he's getting around, feeding himself, getting his own water, & I think he's even taken a sort-of bath by himself. I've been putting him in a secure Kritter Keeper during the daytime, & setting him out next to Orchid (one of the other rescued pigeons). That give them a chance to ( Read more... )

Crummy-Toes is standing up & starting to preen.  He's still not quite up to the task of bathing, but the parts that need washing get rinsed regularly.  Soon, he should be able to graduate to a little bigger cage, now that he's getting his strength back.  I have a parakeet cage that has recently gone into disuse.  I think it would be just right to ( Read more... )

The pigeon is recovering so fast! As I made the rounds this morning, Crummy Toes managed to sound-off with a "hvoo!" I never thought I'd be so happy to have noise coming from one of the birds - LOL.

Last year, the rooster that got his throat slashed by that owl, never did fully recover his voice. What sounds he did manage, were little more than ( Read more... )

The pigeon has recovered enough strength to eat & drink on his own! With a fair amount of struggle, he's re-learning to maneuver his head around the correct direction. After a few unsuccessful attempts to pick at the food, as usual, he quickly learned that he could simply open his mouth & bury his face down into the granules. Close the mouth ( Read more... )

One of my pigeons has been in a rabbit-hutch for a little while, until I get a better coop built.  Unfortunately, there is enough of a gap between the wires, that an owl was able to get some talons into it.  3 days ago, the pigeon - I call him Crummy Toes, because he has some old injuries to one foot - got cut up really bad during the night.  
A ( Read more... )

Happy Yule!

I've been diligently attending the workouts as scheduled by the "My Fitness Coach" (for the Nintendo Wii), for about 1 year, now. For 5 days a week, I'm up to logging in 60 minutes per session. When I first started, I was doing good to put in 15 minutes. Most of that was the difficulty of learning the moves. I have the coordination of seaweed ( Read more... )

About 5 days ago, we got our first snow of the year. It went from 40°F (4°C) to 25°F (-3°C) in a matter of hours. The freeze came on so suddenly that I didn't have time to drain the garden hoses. I am prepared to accept the fact that I may have to replace many of the new fittings.

Fortunately, we had just finished wrapping the pipes in the ( Read more... )

GeoCities is closed. I guess I didn't lose much - my website was seriously outdated. I was busy being the change that I wanted to see, instead of making preachy-sounding webpages about it. Oh, it would be grand to have the lyrical competancy to write compelling articles - stories that get folks inspired to get off their lazy bums & make a ( Read more... )