Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Attract birds to your yard using these tips.
Some migratory birds come back to the same area and even the same nest or nesting site each year. While most birds do not require permanent housing, some choose to repair and improve the same nest season after season. Many people choose where to raise a family based on things as safety, schools and property values. Things are not so different for our feathered friends. They look for a place that is secure, where their progeny can safely develop, hatch and grow and fledge, thereby ensuring a bloodline is successfully passed on. This has little to do with anything other than primal instinct. While birds can be very caring and nurturing parents, what drives them to reproduce and successfully rear young has much more to do with instinct than…
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Before there was geocaching, there was letterboxing.
If geocaching is a modern day, tech-savvy, treasure hunt, then letterboxing is its older, low-tech cousin, or maybe its parent or even grandparent. Letterboxing certainly came first, and some believe it was the foundation for geocaching. Letterboxing finds its origins in Devon, England, at Dartmoor. It is generally accepted that James Perrott, a Dartmoor guide, placed a bottle in which visitors could place their cards at Cranmere Pool on the northern moor. The bottle, first placed in 1854, was soon replaced with a letterbox, in which hikers on the moors could leave a letter or postcard. They sometimes addressed the letters to themselves, and when another hiker came along, the letters would be collected and posted. On this side of the …
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Despite all that today’s children have, I cannot help but to feel sorry for them in at least one regard.
As I think back and recall my childhood: the hours spent exploring local parks, turning over rocks to look for frogs, salamanders and other creatures. Catching crayfish in the creek or simply lying in the tall grass and watching the clouds go by as we dreamed, imagining shapes in the clouds and the stories we invented to go with them. I remember summer mornings that found me out on my bicycle bright and early for a full day of adventure. Sometimes I would stop for lunch, most times I did not, turning up for dinner and staying only long enough to check in, eat and then head back out to play hide-n-seek with the neighborhood kids as the sun began to set. Only when it was dark would I answer the calls of my parents, take the bath my …
Lillian
5:13 pm on Wednesday, February 16, 2011
I loved growing up we had trees to climb went swimming in the local water holes, had fun with mulberry fights and came home all stained and got a spanking!!!. We loved going to the water hole to catch yabbies and take them home for mum to cook up. We always went fishing and exploring in the bush and made up games . Played cowboys n indian's and just had so much fun and having mud fights and water… more ›