The Sandwich Generation

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• Birds Beware

  Friday, March 5th, 2010

   
  Maybe my youngest son took to heart my love of birds when he started his window-washing business, naming it Birds Beware. Or perhaps it was just a catchy phrase. 
  In any event, there are some birds, even in Colorado, that need to beware, not of crashes into mirror-like windows, but of my wrath.  The most notable are starlings.  The males [...]

• More Feathers

  Friday, February 26th, 2010

  Remembering Pretty Boy and Printer reminded me of Chloe.  He (funny name for a “he”) was a White-eyed Conure, a pet of John Denver’s.  Yes, the John Denver.  A good friend of mine worked for John and noticed he was getting a little stressed about Chloe, who was a handful.  So Roben offered to empty his hands [...]

• An Homage to Feathers

  Friday, February 5th, 2010

  I suppose my love-affair with the flying creatures on our planet can be attributed to my Mom’s Mom, Nana, as all her grandchildren called her, as mine do me.  In Nana’s later years, she had “her” chair by the window.  Her knitting was nearby, always with the pink or blue yarn casted on and taking shape for [...]

• Feathers That Delight

  Saturday, January 30th, 2010

  In my original post on “The Sandwich Generation” I mentioned that one of the things Kip and I provided for Mom’s amusement were birdfeeders attached to the windows near her recliner.  There are also other types of feeders near those to attract as many varieties of birds as possible.  I learned from a friend that [...]