Humming Birds, Who Can Resist?

Lately I have been reading about hummingbirds and their likes. I have bought stuff from the store, you know the pre-made stuff but still yet my hummingbirds do not frequent my feeders. My parents on the other hand have so many flying about they can not keep up. I had to ask my mom what she does. 

1 part sugar 

2 parts water

and a touch of red food coloring (I have read on another site that food coloring does not matter, thats bull. My hummingbirds did not go to their clear food)

Okay this is an update to the above recipe. Seems since posting this I have caught some flack on adding red food coloring. There are NO proven studies that say this is harmful, so I am not hurting my hummers. Yes maybe my sugar to water ratio is a bit much but they do not eat from the feeders unless its this sweet. Next time I will try 1 to 3. But once again this does not harm my hummers. They use this as a source of energy, it is not a dietary supplement or their whole meals. Hummingbirds have a very very high metabolism so this ratio would not harm them anyway. Want to know where I get my sources? Here are the links
SNOPES
Hummingbirds.net
Those are just some, for every post that says its harmful can be met with another one that says there is no scientific proof.

You should clean your feeders regularly. Like for example if the sugar water sits to long it will sour. My parents do not even get a chance to do this. The birds suck this stuff down so quickly she has to fill them almost every single day. 

At my place I have 2 hummingbirds. 2 that frequently visit my feeder. Filling them up is not necessary. One thing though, if their feeders are empty or not there, they do come searching for me. I had one actually come flying to my window and was peeking in for awhile. Then another time I walked out my door and one about pinged me as soon as I walked out. 

Another rule on keeping your hummingbirds happy is keep their feeders and food out there all the time. If not they will hunt you down! 

“If my love could be represented by a blur, it would be the beating of a hummingbird’s wings. Did you know that my love is the only love that can fly backwards?
” 

Jarod Kintz

Accident Waiting To Happen Perhaps?

My son is a dare-devil. That is the only word I can come up with. He absolutely has no fear of anything, except Max the tax guy. Those are seriously creepy commercials. 

I had been reading stories already this summer about children drowning in pools and it was an accident. I of course being a mother did not understand how such a thing could happen. How could a parent not know when their child disappears and gets in the pool. I said this until today. My son got away from me and was up on that ladder quicker than I could get there. He did not fall in. I got there in time but now I see how it can be so easy. I had to remove the ladder from the pool completely. This did not stop him. He was trying his hardest to find a way into it. My mom sent me in the house to get something for her and she was right by my son and she looked the opposite direction and he was back on that ladder again. 

I am sorry to all those parents that their children have had those unfortunate accident. My hear does break for you because it can happen in a second and nothing you can do can stop it. 

I am not so sure if this is part of my sons autism that makes him so presistant, stubborn and fearless or just being a normal two year old. My girls never were this brave. 

If my son could do this I would not worry so much

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this. Some people going as far as considering it child abuse. I, myself think this is amazing and wants me to try to get Logan into swimming classes. This is coming from a mother who does not know how to swim. These are skills everyone should know. I applaud the parents of this child or any parent that teaches their kids so young. Just amazing.  

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Logan enjoying a night of filling up the pool

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Splash Pad

The husband and myself took our little one out to the splash pad today. It was his first time ever going and sadly enough, my first time. I had never even heard of such a place until this summer and I seen it by accident when we were driving around. 

I meant to take all the kids when they were all here but never seemed to get around to doing so. Today I decided it was the day to take sweet little Logan. The husband thought for sure he would not enjoy it. In the bath tub Logan does not like his face to be wet at all. 

I put together a collage of his time there. All I had on me was my camera phone. Yes I did bring my camera but the husband forgot to put the memory card in it. The built in memory just SUCKS! So its his fault I did not get the best of pictures I wanted, but that just leaves an excuse to go back out and redo it all over with the real camera. 

Logan had a wonderful time. It took him a minute to get brave enough to get out there but once he did he had a blast! I will post some individuals that are my favorites. 

After he got all dried off and changed we had to make a trip to wal-mart

He is such a happy sweet little boy

Our evening was filled with the splash park and working on a project my husband is making just for me :-) So he says. It just gives him something to do, so he says its for me so I will let him spend the money to make it. 

Here is a sneak peek

And of course baby boy has to help too

The project is almost finished and I can not wait to post pictures of the final result! Have a great weekend my fellow readers and bloggers!

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Scavenger Hunt Sunday

I am back in the scavenger hunt! I'm pretty excited. I have missed it the last couple of weeks due to chaos or whatever else. So why wait around so here it goes. This weeks prompts are:

Water

Petal

Fresh

Eight

Calm

Water

Petal

Fresh

Eight biscuits in a can

Calm

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Sunday Scavenger Hunt!!

So far this weekend my kids are slacking on the Scavenger hunt findings for themselves. I almost think they might opt out this week. It is pretty tough. I had a hard time myself so I went looking through my old photos to see if I could find my "findings."

The list for this week:

Meet Me At The Corner

Mother Nature Meets Technology

One Step At A Time

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Standing Tall

"Meet Me At The Corner"

I have no idea why but this reminds me of a cemetery. That was the first thing to pop into my

This is the next picture that I found that reminded me of this. Kind of like me standing in the doorway waiting for my husband to meet me somewhere, so why not at the corner?

"Mother Nature Meets Technology"

This is an old water mill that my husband and I happen to run across on our round about road trips. As you can tell it has been beaten down by mother nature. In case you did not know the water mill is technology.

"One Step At A Time"

No explanation needed

"Whats Wrong With This Picture"

Umm well here my daughter is ten years old and she is still sucking her thumb!

 The same kid that is sucking her thumb pointed this out. 

"Standing Tall"

No explanation

If my kids decide to participate I will post their findings later :-)

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