Hello Dahawk. Don't think we met before. I am the one who opened this nuthouse.
Hey, have I ever claimed to sugar coat things?
So, Dahawk, you will find me to be a straight forward woman who seldom hesatates to say what is on my mind. That sort of puts some people off a bit, but they seem to love me around this place anyway.
There is at least one robin here that regularly flies into the picture window in front of my house. Two or three times a day it (they?) knock themselves silly, lay in the front yard for a few and then head for the nearest tree. I find myself regularly looking just to make sure they didn't land in the pond and drown.
Birds abound in the barn, most notably the grain room. We have tried putting up screening etc to keep em out but so far no luck. The little feathered freaks worked together to pull a spot down. I found it easier (and safer) to make friends. They stay out as i fill dinner buckets, and in return i leave a heafty handfull of grain on a shelf for them. Call it the cost of doing business.
My daughter never felt the last quake we had here, but did text me and ask why her jeep was doing the jitterbug while parked. Quakes happen so seldom in NJ the possibility never crossed her mind.