Lookit ...yeah, it's another bird.

A mockingbird!
Usually we hear them and only occaisionally get a peek of that long tail flit, flit, flitting in quick-time to the calls. This time he/she was bathing in the bird bath. Haven't witnessed that before.

Some years they are many and noisy!
Sometimes they sound like robins,
sometimes crows,
sometimes blue jays or even budgie birds (someone has a huge aviary across the school field).

Mockingbirds are great entertainers!
It's fun to wake up to the antics.
T once counted 32 variations in one long song.















Years ago, before our current, wonderful neighbors moved in (W.N.), our weirdo neighbor shot a mockingbird that was waking us all up veeeeeeeery early (3:30 a.m.) during mating season. Broke my heart and made me mad.

Obviously he
(the bird, not the guy with the gun)
was one of the top males
and would have bred a
smart, strong, noisy brood.

That's what they say about noisy birds,
they are the top birds.
Too bad the top gun got the top bird.

That neighbor also installed electric fencing.
His horse cribbed, a term meaning: press your horse teeth on the wooden fence like you're biting it and suck air in and out perhaps causing colic which in horses can be life threatening...i.e. you are a BORED to DEATH horse who never gets ridden, ever, even though your owner bought an old horse trailer and restored it to absolute perfection and took you out exactly ONCE to go riding.

Anyway, I liked that horse and would feed him grass, cuz my side of the fence was greener cuz the horse ate his grass on his side of the fence down to the root . He let me pat him a bit as he chewed. But then came the electric fence that zapped him when the grass I offered was damp with dew and he never came close again...I had to toss the grass over onto the ground and he was still shy.

Phooey!

They said I could ride him around the pasture, but I was too scared.
Horses are so big and so tall.
Took me 20 years to get around to riding.
Too bad.

The gun nut did build an excellent fence, as it still stands today, many years later, but is probably is doomed to eventually fall, cuz we planted too many tiny, baby trees too close and they're gonna grow big trunks and...well you can picture the old rotten fence falling down and who's got money and talent to do the thing right after that?

Who's got the money to do much except go to a matinee at the movies and maybe get popcorn, or to be a little chincy, to order the kids snack, a tiny bit of popcorn, a tiny bit of coke and some overly sweet candy.

So we will.
Go to the matinee.
About a girl and beekeepers.