THOSE DAMN BLUE JAYS

It was sunny this morning, but then it clouded up and we had some rain. Warm, however, around 80.

I don't particularly like birds, as a matter of fact they sort of give me the creeps sometimes. I like to watch them from a distance. The brown Cardinal is the female and the bright red one is the male. The morning doves fly together in pairs and I like their coos, etc. However the one bird I really really hate is the blue jay. It is very mean to the other birds Especially when trying to get food out of a feeder. We don't feed the birds in the summer but my neighbor does and the blue jays are constantly scaring the little birds away and hogging the feed.

This morning there were two blue jays having some sort of a fit in our back yard at about 6:30 am. And when I talked to my neighbor today she said that they woke her up too. Flying around the yard, both of them together squawking, landing on the garage roof, squawking, swooping down on the grass, squawking. I really could not tell what there problem was, but they did wake me up much too early for a Saturday.

So awake I was, jumped in the shower and dressed. My husband was already up and Adam. He is such an early riser. I think it's from years of living and working on a farm. So we started our errands early and as the morning wore on we realized we were probably too early because we had to wait in some instances for some places to open.

We stopped by Panera for a bagel and a cup of coffee, then the Pet store wasn't opened yet and neither was UPS where I had to go to mail something. So we went to have the car washed and then stopped by Walmart. That is the time to go to Walmart, very quiet. I bought my MIL a couple of things she needed like bras and socks. Picked up a container of cream cheese and some Ritz crackers. My husband bought some cheap towels to have to dry the car after the car wash and I bought a couple of towels for the bathroom for after showers. Then we went to the pet store for cat food and liter. By this time it the jewelry store where I had left my watch to get a new crystal put on, the other one cracked, was open so I could pick that up. Then we decided to go the Eddie Bauer outlet store. By this time it is 9;30, not opened. So we took a ride passed the construction project my husband is working. He took me down the new road, it look good. Then to Starbucks for a frappuccino and headed for home after getting gas. We got home and decided to run back to the Eddie Bauer store to pick husband up some new polo shirts, that was a success, they had many different colors to choose from in his size. I also picked up a couple of tops. Then we stopped at the Italian deli we love and got a sandwich to split for lunch.

The rest of the day was spent sitting on the porch, visiting with my brother who stopped by and my neighbor who stopped in and then her granddaughter and of course the granddaughter's baby.