Birds and Berries

The kids came in screaming, "There's a bird stuck outside."

"Don't touch it!"

"No, Mommy, come see!"

Unwillingly I go outside to see this bird's head stuck in a hockey net. My first reaction is, survival of the fittest. Apparently this bird is not so bright as to get it's head stuck in a net. However, I didn't really want a dead bird attached to the net...AND I would rather get a live bird out of the net than a dead one.

So back into the house I go to use yet another set of rubber gloves...'cause there is no way I am actually touching this bird! Armed with scissors and gloves, I go outside to free this "not so smart" bird.

I don't know how long it was there, but once freed, it just sat there. Again "not so smart." It was alive, just not moving. I decided that this was not a safe place for this little bird to be (in such close proximity to 4 curious children), so I went to pick it up to move it into the field behind our house. When I went to grab it, it fluttered away (I was greatly relieved I didn't have to touch it again).

Just when I think that my kids are gaining appreciation for wildlife and leaving it alone, three of them come back into the house saying Kd is swinging the plastic golf clubs at a nest of baby bird in the bushes. Great. Back outside I go!

Today I am going to use up some of the fresh produce people have given me. I am no "Little Suzie Homemaker" but I am going to attempt: a blueberry pie (I have only made 1 apple pie in my life), a custard rhubarb pie, and a blueberry pound cake. I was paying over $5/pt for blueberries at the store when a friend of mine said her parents had an abundance at their house if I wanted to pick them. Yesterday I took the kids (who still don't pick very long) and we ended up with buckets of berries. Most of them were eaten right out of the basket, but Kd asked for a pie and they all seemed excited about making a pie from the blueberries that actually made it into the buck.

The blueberry pie is currently in the oven...we'll see how it turns out!