May 2005 Archives

Revenge

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Saw Revenge of the Sith last night/this morning at midnight.

In short, it's very very good.

If you have the slightest bit of interest in the Star Wars films you will be satisfied with this movie. It definitely earns the PG-13 - my kids won't be seeing it anytime soon.

Ok, gotta get to work.

Wild Kingdom

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Spring is here and birds are building nests all over our backyard.

First off, we had a wood dove build a "nest" on the platform of the kid's swingset. I put nest in quotes because it looked like the bird equivalent of spilling a container of Tinkertoys. There was no structure to speak of, just a bunch of twigs surrounding two eggs. They both hatched out but only one made it. The survivor learned to fly a week or two ago and the "nest" cleaned itself up on a recent windy day. Unfortunately cleaning up the non-survivor required some bleach and a scrub brush.

Now we've got two house wrens that have built nests - one on the front porch and one under the canopy in the back yard. I can hardly wait for the eggs - six in all - to hatch so the little chicks can get on with the whole Learning To Fly business. Then I can walk around my house without getting swooped by nervous mother birds who think I'm going to Get Them.

I gotta buy some rubber snakes for next spring.