Does anyone celebrate May Day in a particular way?

When I was a kid, we'd make paper cones and fill them with my favorite flower, Sweet Peas, that my Mom grew and hang them from the neighbor's door knob, ring the door bell and run.

It morphed into my Dad giving her a basket of flowers every year and me jetting up to their house when he was on one of his cruises and couldn't deliver them himself.

Since he's now gone, I snuck a basket (for some reason it had to be a basket...) of spring flowers into her new apartment last year when she was out for the day. I might make a little paper cone, fill it with flowers from the market, ring the door bell and quickly drive away this year.

I love those kinds of innocent childhood memories.

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"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Calvin & Hobbes

Well, this year May 1 will be my first day of non-work according to my retirement plan - I almost feel compelled to DO something that Monday. But with steely discipline, I will just manage to avoid such unnatural urges.

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Hanasian
Annalist, Physician, & Historian
of The Black Company of the Dúnedain,
The Free Company of Arnor
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Durian: Dúnedain Ranger of the North: Rhudaurian Lineage
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Peanuts are just a universal food. With the shells, squirrels, hedgehogs, crows, magpies, bluejays and some smaller birds carry them away. Without the shells, they are appreciated by almost all of the smaller birds. Watching the sparrows can be quite amusing. The half kernels are still too large for them to swallow, so they snip off a bit at the edges. The rest of the kernel thus gets flicked away a bit. Hophophop the sparrows follow the rest, repeat, repeat, repeat ...

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Hanasian
Annalist, Physician, & Historian
of The Black Company of the Dúnedain,
The Free Company of Arnor
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Durian: Dúnedain Ranger of the North: Rhudaurian Lineage
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Roleplay Repository

What is it about bird watching in old age? My Dad would buy six 30 pound bags of bird seed once a month at Costco and feed his Juncos and Jays and Woodpeckers. The older neighbors on either side of us feed the birds pigeons. Lots and lots of pigeons. But neither of them sit out and enjoy watching them like my Dad did.

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"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Calvin & Hobbes

180 pounds of birdseed a MONTH??? And I thought I bought a lot of bird feed (mostly in the winter and the odd month either way). I don't think I bought 30 pounds the entire last winter. not much snow (but that's the insufficient precipitation subject again), and not any long periods of cold, which are the two conditions during which I do feed, or feed more.

As for birdwatching - well, maybe after having had two years of Zen meditation training. The lawn in front of our apartment building doesn't exactly attract flocks, so a lot of my time would be spent meditating on "where are those birds now?" Well, currently of course breeding and nest-building, which they do kind of out of sight.

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Yeah, my folks lived up in the Santa Cruz mountains for 25 years and Dad LOVED his birdies and squirrels. He must have had five hanging feeders,



several were supposedly "squirrel proof" hahahahahaha,



a couple of hummingbird feeders,



several dishes he filled several times a day and a few auto-filling bird baths. He was a bird and squirrel NUT!.

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"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Calvin & Hobbes

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Hanasian
Annalist, Physician, & Historian
of The Black Company of the Dúnedain,
The Free Company of Arnor
~ ~ ~
Durian: Dúnedain Ranger of the North: Rhudaurian Lineage
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Roleplay Repository

I guess they do that everywhere. We used to have a hummer feeder but one fat guy kept everyone else away. I'd go out and give him a spray with a water bottle but he didn't care.

OUCH on your earlobe! I've had some come right up to my face and say hello, but none would get that close.

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"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Calvin & Hobbes

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Tevildo, Prince of Cats

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Hanasian
Annalist, Physician, & Historian
of The Black Company of the Dúnedain,
The Free Company of Arnor
~ ~ ~
Durian: Dúnedain Ranger of the North: Rhudaurian Lineage
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Roleplay Repository

Our Mockingbird is back! He brought a frog with him this year! It makes me wonder where he goes in winter to pick up such sounds.

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"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Calvin & Hobbes

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Hanasian
Annalist, Physician, & Historian
of The Black Company of the Dúnedain,
The Free Company of Arnor
~ ~ ~
Durian: Dúnedain Ranger of the North: Rhudaurian Lineage
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Roleplay Repository

We're going to my older brother's house for Easter dinner later. He's the only one who has a place big enough to seat our small (15 people) family at one table. We've never had a "kids" table.

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"There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want." Calvin & Hobbes

The mole (family? don't know exactly how sociable they are) has seriously expanded its newest molehill, which may have been become a tad messed up due to toddlers visiting their grandparents here having "improved" it according to their innocent but uncomprehending impulses.

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