I love my house, but sometimes, we have the oddest experiences. Was just walking through the library to the bedroom & distinctly smelled stale cigarette smoke. Neither of us smoke. Walked back through same area & nothing. But it was definitely stale cigarette smoke. Ah, Five Oaks, never change.

No, Mischief, you may not have any of my cake. It has (dark) chocolate, it's not good for you. Drink my milk instead. (She declined.) #cats

10 pendants in to my goal, 30 to go. I'm starting to regret it because I might have been over-ambitious, but why not, one last go. (Birthday is on 24th.)

I know, babies, it's ridiculously hot. (98f, w/heat index of 106f) (We rigged an umbrella over the nestbox so it's got some shade during the hottest part of the day when it would have been in full sun. Getting divebombed by the parents was worth it.) #birds #EasternBluebird ##birdfy-nest-polygon

The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.

M just found out the *entire call center* for his company is being terminated. The *entire call center* is being moved to the Phillipines. Every call center employee in *2 states* will be out of a job, by mid August. I've been telling him he needs to brush up his resume, 'just in case'- he's IT.

They're cutting trees along the property line, using a helicopter with a hanging sawblade system, and needless to say, the birds are Not Happy at the noise. Doesn't matter that it's 300yds or so away, it's Too Loud.

Why are you so stinking cute. #birds #EasternBluebird ##birdfy-nest-polygon

Nah. This will be a pass for us, like the new Steam console is. We'll buy Switch2's long before we consider this. We never bought a PS4 or a PS5 either. Our PS3 still works, so does the PS2 we have in storage. Still got lots of games to replay on those.

M, who is working from home, muttering under his breath- "Socks. Why is it always the fucking socks." Me, snickers.

Dammit, Danny Glover has Alzheimer's. #FuckAlzheimer's

Went out to water the garden, well, the grow bags at least. Everytime we do, the outdoor hydrant (spigot) leaks,& refreshes the water in the accidental pond. There are so many tadpoles. Which is why we're waiting to replace the hydrant. 😆 #gardening

Gotta love people who blame the customers when a company oversells a product & cancels their orders on them. 🙄

Nooo! Stop that! You're growing up too fast!! #birds #EasternBluebird #birdfy-nest-polygon

So, looks like we're going to have to look into doing a charge back on a Kickstarter that keeps not getting fulfilled. The issues this KS is having should have been worked out long before they went to production. Lots of unhappy backers on this one.

It is hilarious that they are all now facing the entrance, watching for food. 😆 #birds ##EasternBluebird ##birdfy-nest-polygon

That is one grumpy nestling.😆 #birds #EasternBluebird

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

They are starting to developed wing feathers. They are growing up so fast. #birds #EasternBluebird

The Murder in residence. #birds #AmericanCrows

Why are siblings so damned aggravating. If I tell you to go to a certain website to see who is on the absentee ballot you got, don't argue w/me abt it. You look like a damned fool when you realize after, when you went to a different website, you were looking at the wrong county entirely. Argh.

One, Two, Three, Four! Yes, papa, those are your nestlings making that racket! #birds #EasternBluebird #birdfy-nest-polygon

Ok, well, the snake baffle definitely works. #birds #nativesnake

When a parent pokes their head in to see if you've fallen asleep yet... #birds ##EasternBluebird ##birdfy-nest-polygon

Yeah, I saw you, Resident Eastern Black Racer. You leave the #EasternBluebird nest alone.

The nestlings are starting to look like actual Eastern Bluebirds. The first hatched one, ie, the largest, decided they wanted to roam the nest box, and plant themselves right by the opening to be sure to be fed immediately. It works. #birds #EasternBluebird #birdfy-nest-polygon

No. Absolutely not. I refuse.

First nestbox notification in almost 24 hours. Yeah, papa, your nestlings are screaming to be fed, all 4 of them(the 5th egg is a dud, it would appear). #birds #EasternBluebird #birdfy-nest-polygon

So, #birdfy still is not working, or only sporadically. (Not at all today unless via live feed & that's hit or miss.) Any recs for other bird cameras that you've used out there, that I can research & switch to in the event these cameras never come back/eventually die? *sigh*

"My camera doesn't gave a rest button!" Yeah it does, it's the hole you stick the reset tool into, not a literal button. "See? No button!" *shares photo where reset hole is blatantly obvious* Like, my dude, did you not even bother to read the user's manual at all? Come on now. 😒

Horrqy, it's bsck! Still glitchy, still not perfect, but it *works*. It looks like the 5th egg may have hatched during the outage as well. #birds #EasternBluebird #birdfy-nest-polygon

Need progress

So, having finished what seasons we can watch (for now) of The Great British Sewing Bee, we are now starting on The Great Canadian Baking Show. Dan Levy and Julia Chan?!? Yes please!

Ugh. Birdfy servers crashed. Can't check on nestbox or see who visited overnight.

Repost from this morning - I have a decent laptop bookmarked, but I need to be able to cover that and July rent. So, on we go. Plenty of pendants in stock!

*dies laughing* #birds #EasternBluebird

Since they're calling for rain later today, decided to go out & spread some Garden-tone fertilizer on everything. Guess what it started doing as soon as I stepped outside. 🤨

Mischief really likes this brand of dried catnip (Meowijuana Purple Passion) #cats

Hooray, the Grey Fox pair are still around! Not sure what the birds and other wildlife left them from the day, but they're finding something. #wildlife #nativegreyfox

Ultima Online was my first foray into MMORPGs, back in the mid 90s. This could be interesting.

Mourning Dove isn't quite sure what to make of that Redbellied Woodpecker. #birds

Maybe this can be my thing. If you buy 40 pendants, I promise I will *not* climb any mountains. I will go no higher than the second floor of the local library. oishiny.etsy.com Buy a pendant and sponsor me staying at sea level.

We are up to 4 hatchlings now. One egg to go. #birds #EasternBluebird

The New York Times's obituary for Jane Yolen (gift link):

Papa says wake up! Hey wake up, it's time to eat this nice spider I got you! #birds EasternBluebird

Why, hello there,Woodrow. #wildlife

happy juneteenth!! i am once again here to plug the only statewide museum dedicated to black history in my state! 🫶 blackiowa.org

3 hatchlings and feeding time is going as expected. 😆 Pretty sure that's a hornworm. My tomatoes thank her. #birds #EasternBluebird

Two hatchlings! And papa making off with and empty eggshell. #birds #EasternBluebird

We have the first hatchling of this new clutch! #birds ##EasternBluebird