Details: Bird Caught By The Cat & Rescue/Donation

So, with the wam weather that has happened off and on lately, (mostly on though) we have a tendency to leave the blinds in the living room open. This gives us a clear view to the backyard. We also have a dog door that leads into the garage, and we leave the back door to the garage open so the dogs and cats can go in and out as they so choose.

Well, this particular Saturday, Jordan happened to be on the computer and I was playing an Xbox 360 game. I happened to be waiting for my game to load some new information and I glanced out the window. I saw Eddie (the orange tabby cat) out in the middle of the yard just laying there. It also looked like he had something laying in front of him. I wasn't sure just what it is because, let's face it, I'm getting older. I don't see as well anymore. I need corrective lenses. I was wearing them, but still, I don't see as well as I'd like. So I turned to Jordan and said, "What does Eddie have?" He looked, but wasn't sure as well. So, he put on his shoes and went out to investigate (as did the dogs--they like to help dad investigate EVERYTHING). I decided that it was for my own good that I don't go out there and investigate, but I did go to the window and lean a little closer. I could see that Eddie had something brown. And it looked like it was alive at some point. (It was at this time I reassured myself that it was indeed a VERY good thing that I didn't go outside to investigate closer.)

As Jordan got over there and went to pick it up, the brown lump moved. It didn't so much fly, but it did a kind of a little fly-hop thing. (By this time I was about to carve in stone my genius for staying inside...) Well, apparently it was a little bird that Eddie caught and injured, but didn't kill. Luckily. I hate that sort of stuff. I'm an animal lover. -I'm sure you know that by now. Anyways, Eddie injured a wing so the bird couldn't fly away, and we think the bird was 'playing dead' in order to save his/her life, which is probably what happened. Well, Jordan was able to pick it up and it perched on his finger, so he brought it to the window for me to see. It was then that I decided I'd take a picture of the poor little thing.




After my photo op, I called the 24 hour emergency vet clinic and they gave me a phone number to a wild animal care place. It's called the WildCare Foundation. What they do there is accept and treat any native wild animal, and when it's back to full health and can fend for itself again, they release it on protected (no hunting) ground for reintegration in nature. When I got them on the phone they told me that they accept animals from 9:00am-7:00pm, and since it was already almost 8:30pm, they would be happy to take it the next day. So, we (meaning mostly Jordan) made a little bird nest shaped area out of a hand towel, we put some of our birdseed on a little plate, put down a little plate of water, and put it in Miller's kennel for the night to await his new home the next day. We put him in the kennel because we didn't want him to hurt himself by trying to fly around.

Anyhoo, on Sunday we went out to the property and gave them the bird. They told us is was a Morning Dove (I had no idea....it was BROWN was the best description I could give them on the phone....). They said that it had lost some feathers on the wing and it probably would be okay because nothing felt broken. They also said that being that it's spring time, a lot more babies get abandoned by mom getting killed one way or another, so at that moment they had over 600 animals of all kinds that they were taking care of, 300 of which were babies. The facility runs solely off of donations, and they have a vet that donates his time to the facility to help as well. So, if you're wanting to know more about the facility, or how you can donate to this WONDERFUL cause, check out their website by clicking here.

In Case You Want To See...

I added a current photo (that I took today) of the trees in the backyard to my "A Funny and An Update" post. It's kinda crazy--just thought I would let you know that I added the pic. Happy Sunday!!

ABC Tag

ABC's "getting to know you" TAG ABC's of you. Each player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

A- Attached or single: Attached!

B- Best Friend: My Hubby. After him, all my friends are wonderful, so they all come in second place, and all fill a different, essential role in my life.

C-Cake or Pie: I thought the question was “Cake or Death?” (That’s from Eddie Izzard…) Seriously, I LOVE carrot cake. And not that fancy stuff either. The Betty Crocker mix-eggs-and-water-then-bake cake.

D-Day: Any leisure day…probably Saturday though.

E- Essential Item: Contacts??? I gotta see….

F- Favorite Color: I really like blue and purple (bet you couldn’t tell eh?).

G-Gummi Bears or Worms: Orange gummi worms.

H-Home town: Parma, Idaho (also Weiser cuz that’s where I originated from).

I- Indulgences: Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream.

J- January or July?: July-more chance of a ‘vacation’ happening then.

K-Kids: Love em, so long as they aren’t brats. :) he he he… I haven’t given birth to any, but I consider all my pets my kids.

L-Life is incomplete without: Air?

M- Marriage Date: Civil 08/09/03; Temple 04/09/05

N- Number of Siblings: 6 -- Robbie, Cody, Ryan, Lorne, Brandon, Jamie.

O- Oranges or Apples: To eat, apples. To drink, oranges.

P- Phobias or Fears: Um, I fear the Dentist…

Q- Quote: Well, something I say a lot (to my computer) is: “Come on you hunk of junk!!” Sorry, but that’s all I can think of right now!!

R- Reason To Smile: Babies. AND, knowing that somebody loves me.

S- Season: Spring

T- Tag five: Melissa Despain, Ruby Weideman, Linsey Ethington, Tifani Wallace and Melissa Boggs.

U- Unknown Fact About Me: My left fallopian tube is blocked. There ain't nothing gettin in OR out!!

V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I eat the meat!

W- Worst Habit: Lots of stuff….

X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds.

Y-Your favorite food: The Good kind.

Z: Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Wednesday, April 23rd

Happy Me Day Today!!

(in other words, Happy Secretary's Day Today!!)

Cute Alien Video

I love this little video, so I thought I would share it with all of you. Make sure to have your sound on so you can get the full effect of it! Enjoy!

A Funny and An Update...

The Funny: A dear sweet friend of mine brought to my attention that it's been over a month since I posted something on my blog. I know. I'm horrible. BUT, the funny part (at least it was funny to me) was when she said (bless her heart) "Are you on an amazing vacation?!" HA HA HA!

The Update: For those of you who know what I'm up to, you probably laughed too. No, the reason I've been 'hibernating' is because of tax season. (You'll probably notice that I'm posting on 4/16---the day after taxes are due.) I've worked at a CPA firm for the last three tax seasons (the first two seasons in Idaho and this one in Oklahoma). Obviously, we've been busy. So, therefore, that means that I've had no life, I've been TIRED and CRANKY (to put it nicely), I'm greatly appreciating TODAY! No deadline for 6 more months. That means that there won't be too much craziness around work for probably 3-4 months. However, we do prepare payroll and payroll reports for several clients (I think we do around 45 or so) so that means when the end of June comes around we'll be preparing 2nd quarter reports (due in July) and so it won't be completely boring around here. -It actually hasn't been for quite some time for me now. Each week I "man" the front desk and phones and do all the little stuff that goes along with that, but I also prepare 3 weekly payrolls (2 of them are salary employees, so it's pretty much a click and print type of deal) and then the other one is for a company that has around 60 employees (give or take depending on the week). Yeah, they do payroll WEEKLY. It might sound horrible, but actually, I've come to enjoy it. Especially my 'contact' person at the company, whom is one of my new best friends, even though she's old enough to be my mother (this doesn't matter to me one way or the other, I'm just painting a picture for you), lives at least an hour away, and whom I've NEVER met in person. I've only talked to her on the phone, but it's really nice. Even when she's having a crummy day, she still makes me laugh and I enjoy talking to her.

Anyhoo...... a couple weekends ago Jordan and I planted some plants (some flower bulbs, tomato plats, a red pepper and a green pepper plant, some squash and some zuccini. I'm not too optomistic about the squash and zuccini because of where we had to plan them, but I am being optomistic about the tomatoes. -Hopefully we'll get enough that we can make (and possibly can) some salsa this summer. I'm hoping the weather will STAY nice for a little while though so everything can have a good strong start.

Here in Oklahoma, tornado season has started, and apparently lasts through the summer. Luckily (I've learned) we live in an area that isn't really hit by the tornados. We live on the East side of Norman, south of Main Street. And, apparently a lot of the really bad weather (SEVERE thunderstorms and tornados) usually hits a little town called Moore that's north of us. We have gotten some serious thunderstorms, but nothing to really do damage. We did have one storm last week that we got about 3 inches of rain from. Jordan was at home and he called me up to tell me that the garage was about to flood (the back porch/cement area is pretty well level with the garage door). Well, it didn't flood. A little water got in, but it wasn't anything really bad, and only came in about a foot into the garage. So, we lucked out there.

Back in December we had an ice storm hit the area which caused serious damage to trees, etc. around here. A lot of people's power was out for quite a while, trees fell on houses causing serious damage etc. We were lucky enough not to lose power. That was good because Chase & Meghan were literally days away from having their little Kate and their power went out. Meghan's mom was in town for the birth, so they all stayed with us 3 or 4 nights. They went into the hospital to have the baby on Friday (she came around 10:00-10:30 that night), and they ended up having their power come back on that day too, so they were able to bring their new baby home to a warm, LIT house. Anyways, we had some damage to some trees in our back yard. Here's what they looked like back in December right after it all happened.


Here's what the trees looked like on 4/27/08. I made sure Jordan was in the pic (mowing the lawn) so you could see just how big the trees are.

I know what you're thinking, why is it still out there like that??? Well, it's still out there because our LAZY landlord still hasn't taken care of it even though he said he would back in December.

Anyways, just thought I'd let you know that we're still alive and kicking out here. Hope all is well with all of you, and KEEP posting! Even though you haven't heard from me, I DO check most all of your blogs DAILY to see what's going on with you and your families!!!