Posted on 05/19/2004 4:36:20 AM PDT by Aquamarine
Hi (((Pippin))). Are you enjoying your new computer WITH speakers this time? :)
Actually, they at the moment are providing something interesting.
The other day from the kitchen window, one of the many birds who frequent the birdbath and two smaller water bowls on the ground (for the cats, squirrels and many of the birds!) took a drink and then fell to the ground, unable to get up.
Concerned for the crow, thinking he was crippled, I couldn't think of any way to help him. After about 15 minutes, he began to revive and awkwardly hop a little, and then finally was gone.
Remembering a similar happening at Myrtle Beach when I lived there, with robins flopping all over the yard, I realized the cause must be the ripening holly berries!
The robins had feasted on the pyracantha red berries that had fermented, and they were literally drunk..:))
Happens every year.
Same with Mr. Crow, and another one succumbed just yesterday.
LOL! That's funny, crow's that don't know their limit.
Sorry about the drunk crows, LOL!
Drunken crows are NOT my fault.
Even though they really ARE out to get me.
Crows are evil and must be watched carefully...
/ joke
My mother and I were accompanied by a female reporter from The Jacksonville Journal to send back stories of my participation. We were given several tours of sights in the city, and a bus trip to Mt. Vernon, returning by a steamer on the Potomac River. One day went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Toured Smithsonian, the F.B.I. Buiding, monuments, Art Gallery, Arlington Cemetary, the Capitol Building, etc.
We were schedued to meet President Harry Truman (1947), but he had flown to Missouri to be at his ailing mother's bedside.
We saw only a few parts of The White House, since it was being renovated. The President and Mrs.Truman were temporarily in residence at The Blair House nearby.
It was a wonderful week!
sounds like you had a super time!
And what, pray tell, am I to do if one day I look out and see you sprawled on the lawn, Dark Sheep Shearer??
What is your magic revival method?!!
Snap my fingers, and hand you a cup of caw-fee..:))???
sneering laugh here - hehehehe
Quoth the Raven; Never more!
Well, if I'm on the lawn, I likely blasted myself there with something I was working with.
*chuckle*
Check for smoke or fire first, poke with a broom handle, and then douse any fires on my person that are visible.
Then shoo the crows away, as I seem to attract them, and see if I am capable of imbibing Caw-fee.
;-)
LOL!
It's Bush's fault! LOL!
Darn, can't find it.
Had a rambling e-mail or such from a friend about how my 'personal totem' is a crow, and how I have pale wings or such.
(He swears he wasn't stoned when he wrote it..)
It was good for a laugh, IF I didn't get stupid and delete it like I probably did..
(No, Dark Side - he was not a classmate upon whom I had a crush..:))
Fall of the House of Usher.
Quotes 0f The Day -
Peasant: "What are you doing about the war on poverty ?" King: "Nothing. Its over, and you lost!"
"Try to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo and not want to waste a bullet on you! "
Darks probably would've used it! LOL!
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