My Mind's Eye

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Birthday update and Easy Sunday

BRYAN THANKS YOU ALL FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY GREETINGS A FINE DAY WAS HAD BY DA BDAY BOY!!!!!

We had lunch at Seaboard Cafe

This was Saturday Special Menu

Birthday Boy ordered the Spicy Pork BBQ Sandwich special

IT was twice as good as it looks loaded with Pork BBQ and slaw

Rick, Seaboard's owner gave Bryan a Chocolate Chip Cookie

Here in NC we had a wet winter and spring.

Our grass, shurbs and trees have thrived.

Saturday, April 27, 2024

HAPPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY

Friday, April 26, 2024

Final Friday Feature, Nature and Feline Friday

First of all I'd like to wish our hostess YAM-Aunty a very happy birthday...

Please click HERE

and to visit YAM's blog

On March 1, 2024 I posted about our new and improved landscaping around our mail box

Beloiw is what happened sometime after 2pm on a Tuesday March 12th

someone played havoc with our mailbox

No clue who they didnot stop. We have a cul de sac text group we all suspect the city trash truck. Tuesday is trash day they turn the corner like their tails on fire. Big and noisy all

Didn’t knock the post over (it is in cement)or run up on the curb

To say we were MAD would be an understatement but since this is a famiy show I'll JUST SAY M A D X 1,000,000

We used a bungee cord and tape to secure it.

It was an ordeal to get the wooden brace off below. We really did use every tool in Bryan's tool box to get that brace off. We are pretty sure the wooden brace was STEEL disguised in wood.

It was secured into post from inside with screws and nails.

Thankfully the post was not damaged. It was set in cement ten years ago. No way we could have gotten it out of the ground.

Bryan ordered a new mail box and steel brace for the post. They arrived the end of March.

He repainted post We spent most of the first weekend in April taking it apart the old brack and getting new brace secured.

There is still some touch up painting to do.

WE SINCERELY HOPE THIS IS THE 3rd AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF MAIL BOX MAYHEM

After the post was up and painted....dag blasted birds (I think the Trout Talking Tabbies will like this) decided to use the gold dome as their loo seat. Their poooop ran all down the side. They now know I am the smartest bird on the block.

We live on the corner and have a nice breeze. I bought a whirlygig. Attached it low enough that it whirls in their face and it is shiny birds don't like shiny. No a trace of poooop since I installed my mailbox whirlygig.