The Porch Corner

I love to sit on the corner of the porch and watch the birds. This is my view from the corner, I've got three bird feeders and a birdbath. You can barely see the bird feeder to the left of the bird bath. I just got a new bird feeder and it's only about 6 feet from where I sit, a little Chickadee just happen to land on it while I had my camera. To the left of the porch above on a tree branch I have a great view of a morning dove sitting on her nest. She hasn't moved for 2-3 weeks so her mate must be bringing her food. See her there in the middle of the photo? The nest above my craft room window is also full of babies and we also have a cardinal nest in between two tarps above one of the dog kennels. When I go in the dog kennel in the morning you can hear the babies. They should be leaving any day now as they only nest for under two weeks, they sure grow up fast! I have not been doing much crafting lately but do have a few items that I've been working on over the past few months. First is a Popsicle shaped card covered in felt, buttons, chipboard and glitter. I created a hanging paper pocket using cardstock as the base and covered it with fabric. I also made some matching butterfly tags to tuck inside, which are also covered in fabric. I used a Fan shaped die on this set of tags and covered them with fabric, vintage doily scrap, paper roses covered in glitter, pearl pins and ribbon. I'm headed to Myrtle Beach, SC next week so I was in the mood for a beach themed card. I used some old Creative Imaginations goodies that I had, also some real seashells and a little starfish. My garden is thriving like crazy! I've been picking fresh raspberries every day for about 2 weeks and also going to make some raspberry jam when I get back from my beach trip. My tomatoes are 2-3 feet tall already and I picked my first yellow squash and zuchinni and cooked them for dinner last night. There is nothing like fresh garden veggies, can't wait for the tomatoes to ripen! (I see Blogger.com has changed their blogging format, I think I like the old version much better! All my paragraphs are running together for some reason, oh well it's free so I shouldn't complain - LOL!!) We also had our first Rattlesnake about 3 weeks ago (Hopefully the last!). It was on the other side of the fence getting ready to head onto our property and the dogs started barking at it so it stopped. We got all the dogs put up and my brave Terry went through the woods with his snake stick that Doug made us and a kitty litter bucket to try and catch it. That darn snake slitered through the fence and came onto our side so I just kept my eye on it while Terry came back over. He finally managed to get it in the bucket and put the lid on top. He drove the snake over to our friend Dougs, who is usually the one catches the snakes for us because most of the time Terry is at work when the snakes show up so I call Doug and he comes over and get's the snakes for me. The rattlesnakes usually don't show up until July but with the warm winter we had they are coming out early, I hope and pray that was the last rattlesnake I'll see this year! Wishing all of you a lovely Summer! Annette :)