The Crow and the MadMagpie

 

The sun was coming up when I walked out of Wal-Mart pushing my basket of groceries. The sky was full of crows, they were on the cars, parking lot, all the light fixtures and the fence that hold the baskets.

I love crows, no photo, it was too dark, and we were talking. I drew him for you out of my memory shows you how the biggest crow I have ever seen, was watching me as I talked to him in baby talk. (yes, I talk to crows)

He landed about 10 feet from me, and I stopped to see what he had in his mouth. He was fascinated by my talking to him, and he stared down at me much like Beau looks when I tell him a story. 

photos taken while I was telling him a story. he will sit as long as I talk, we get to laughing so hard I can hardly talk.

I asked Crow what he had in his beak, and he dropped it; I told him it looked just like the pigs' ears that dogs like to eat. I told him he is the biggest crow I have ever seen.

I turned to walk towards my car and a man about my age was standing watching me, He laughed and said I think that bird likes you! I laughed and said, I was asking him what he had in his beak. He said what was it? I answered I don't know; it looked like a Taco, but he did not tell me.

 do you talk to critters? birds? lizards? I do.

I always apologize to the lizards when I remove the poop bag AKA Lizard Buffett. The lizards listen to me just like Beau and the Crow.

the map above, the circle is Egmont Key and Islande that is 33 miles by car and 2 miles if I could fly like a bird. Egmont is a bird preserve and every morning when I am walking Beau, from the direct of the island, thousands of crows leave that island and fly to the east over our heads. They and the one I talked to, are fish crows. I came home to look up their name and dove down the internet HOLE for about an hour. 

I had no idea Crows are Corvids; I love that name. or that our local birds are Fish Crow and live on Egmont Key. Now I know why Beau and I see thousands of them in the air every day at daybreak and we see the sky filled from our backyard every evening at about 5;30 which is sundown

The most interesting Fact I found, is this...

In the family of Corvids is a MAGPIE. 

info found HERE

Crows, Magpies, and Ravens Talk! You may be surprised to learn crows, magpies, and ravens can talk. These birds can mimic other birds and human speech so accurately that people believe they are hearing a person.

Are you picking up what I am putting down? Crows and Magpies TALK! 

I may change my name to Mad Magpie. I talk so much that Birder, David G, commented that he hopes I never sit by him on a plane. 😉😉

I learned a lot, if you care at all the info in in the link or just type in Crows vs Magpies or Corvids

The Fence is Standing Part 2, The Barricade

 

The barricade that Sandra Made, I blocked access to it the day after Milton. Beau was afraid of all the junk. I dragged everything you see in all the photos and built this barricade all by myself.

I put it there 2 month ago and I moved it all out and did my Pioneer Woman Thing and can't believe I did it. And I can still walk. ha ha

I feel so much better now that the fence is done and soon, I will show you what I have to do NEXT.

The Fence is Standing!

 this is the way Milton left our back fence, that belongs to our neighbor and is 25 years old, we paid half when they wanted to take down chain link and put up privacy fence. we regret that, but hindsight is 2020 and we had 25 years of privacy.

 Two months after the storm, we went out to remove the barricade I had dragged there to keep Beau contained in our yard. While Bob took apart a 20-foot metal pole the tree people threw on the fence, the blue line you see above, I dragged all the barricade away, including branches, an old swing, and boards.

Bob says, go in their yard and push on the fence; to stand it up so I can brace it. i said there is no way I can get to it without falling and I can't push it up if I do get to it.

Well Go TRY! I can't do it either.

if you enlarge you can see the neighbor's yard has not been touched in many years, it's a jungle over there. I knocked on their door and asked him if I could go in the back yard and push the fence up. He said yes and by the time I got in their back yard, his wife came running out on the porch yelling, no, I don't want you to work in our yard. As she got closer, she said I am afraid you will get hurt. 

SO WAS I.  

She said show me what you want done and I will do it. She is 30 years younger than I am and knows our ages. 

While saying Thank you Lord in my head, I watched her try to dig through the jungle to get to the fence and said I will go on the other side and help Bob.

There was no way we could have done this without her help.

She pushed it up, I held my side and bob wired 3 places together, so it was standing, not steady but UP.

She did the same to the other hole and said she had to go to work. Our neighbors are very nice. He is disabled and can't walk, he needs knees and has no health insurance, she cleans houses to pay the bills. That is why their yard is a jungle.

After I drove to Ace Hardware and paid 12 dollars for Screws because either we had none or he had lost them. I dragged boards that came off the other old fence the tree people removed, held them cross wise and Bob used the power drill to screw it steady. 

It's done and it will never be pretty but 2 hours later we have a safe yard for

The standing sturdy but ugly fence is done and only cost time and $$ for screws. 

these are the after pics from the beginning above. 

the jungle will take care of the ugly part.

to be continued tomorrow