Little Bits

Granddaughter Katelyn, who is just

four years old had her first experience

with an ice cream truck.

The following day, she wanted Mama

to make a call and demand that the 

ice cream truck come back.

This is at their temporary neighborhood

which is a subdivision with enough

kids to make an ice cream truck owner happy.

Their own house is in an area where the

ice cream truck doesn't visit.

Their six month lease 

on their temporary home is up at the end of

this month.  They plan to camp out on their

property until their own house is finished,

and who knows when that will be.

Their home burned just before Thanksgiving.

The rebuild is taking way too long, I think.

Yes it's been way too hot.

I found a humming bird that seemed

to be resting a bit too long near the ground.

After awhile I went back to check on him,

and he was still hanging out in the same area.

I picked him up and it was obvious that he

had some sort of injury.  I thought it was

perhaps exhaustion, dehydration or something

 and it just needed to eat. 

 So I tried to place this very

light creature to perch on the hummingbird feeder.

It wouldn't grab on, so I tried putting it's beak

into the syrup to see if it would take some.

I don't think it worked.  I tried setting it upon

the feeder yet again and it fell to the ground.

I left it in a shaded spot under the feeder hoping

it would recover.  Other hummingbirds 

came to attack the little one and wouldn't leave

it alone.  So Rick took it to another location

and sheltered it so that the other birds 

would leave it alone.

The following morning it was dead as we 

expected it to be.  

We think it's wing was broken.

   

I planted a bed full of zinnias from seeds

earlier this spring.  This is the first one to bloom.

There's an orange/peach colored one out there

as well.

This is dinner

when it's way too hot to cook.

Take care and have a terrific weekend.