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Shared on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 13:28All my hummingbirds have headed south for the winter, except for one. She left and was gone for five days just to return. I don’t think she was ready to head out and came back home. I watched her grow from a tiny baby into a juvenile humbird. She stayed for another three weeks, and then left again. I made sure she had fresh sugar water every day to fatten her up for the trip south. She got so use to seeing me (not having to fight with other humbirds for the feeder) that she would chirp to me every morning. I’ll miss seeing her. I always leave the feeders up till Nov for the hummers that are passing through from the north. It’s weird, but I can tell my humbirds apart from each other.
My lemon tree is doing great. I had to bring it into the house for the winter. The little lemon dropped off a few days ago. I took a few pics, then cut it open to use it. It had a sweeter taste over reg lemons. It was about half the size of a reg lemon. I almost felt evil eating it.
I’m caught up on all my work and the rest of the day is mine. I’m having a cooking, bake fest. I’m making beef stew, homemade biscuits (never made them before, or the beef stew) with honey butter and something sweet. I made the mac & cheese for the party on Sat and boy is it good. Recipe is at 2O2cook, look for Durty’s recipe. I saw this mean looking pear salad on Michael Chiarellos show, so I'm making that if I still have energy left. I love days like this. Put on some music, open the windows and the house smells wonderful.
On a gaming note. I've been busy with LBP, Socom, and I've been playing some old titles (part of that retro mood I've been in). Just finished ICO and DMC. Still need to finish up Okami. I don't want to rush thur this game. It's far to beautiful to not give it my full attention.
Juvenile H-bird all by herself. In this pic she was still a bit too small to head south, but I fattened her up!
The little lemon that came of my lemon tree. The dish it's in is a very small condiment dish about 2 inches wide.
Now, if you'll excuse me, off to cover my kitchen in flour. . .
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