Steve`s Country
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Muffin’s Christmas, A Fun Poem.
Muffin’s Christmas
Christmas time, just the day before,
Shopping is done, do we need more?
Our socks are hung, over the chair,
Hope they have dried, once Santa gets there.
Muffin is expecting, toys piled high,
Her toys are so many, I just sigh.
But though she has toys galore,
Knowing her, she always wants more.
Evening comes, we light up the tree,
A simple time, for her and me.
Night is here, and we’re off to bed,
Not before 5, is what I said.
I’m sure she heard, as down we lay,
But it matters not, what I say.
2 am, she bounces around,
Not yet, I said, and hold my ground.
She looks at me, lies down again,
She likely thinks, I’m hard to train.
It’s 4 am, now what to do?
Muffin jumps, like a kangaroo.
Up we get, I light up the tree,
Muffin runs around, quite happily.
Our socks are first, filled to the top,
Muffin just runs, not wanting to stop.
Gifts are next, we open them fast,
The paper she wants, it is the best.
Time to eat, and to settle down,
I am sure I saw, Muffin frown.
I reach to give Muffin her food,
And hit my head hard, that’s not good.
So as I sit, and go tweet tweet,
Muffin helps me, my food she eats.
Now it is over, once more done,
But Merry Christmas, everyone!
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Merry Christmas Everyone!😀😺🎄
Good morning everyone! It is a beautiful, chilly morning here at Steve’s Country! The temp is -8F (-22C), the birds are busy at the feeders as usual. Jasper is hauling away peanuts and no one is challenging his territory this morning. Now that is unusual. The birds are feeding nicely together as well. Usually the evening and pine grosbeaks do not get along, but there has been little “arguing” among them this morning. It is a little cooler than it has been so the birds are more interested in eating, rather than “arguing”.
There were seeds left over from yesterday so I was not so concerned about getting out there too early to feed them. But when I looked I discovered they could not pull the seeds off the feeders, the seeds were frozen to the feeder. I should have realized that, it did get up to 32F (0C) yesterday, then freezing as it did was not good. So I went out and gave them fresh seeds. I will scrape the other seeds free a little later. There is not much wind out there which is nice, so hopefully I can spend some time outside trying to attract the pine grosbeaks to my hand again.
I had 2 of them land on me yesterday, one female was just on and off again, but then a male came and actually stayed there for a bit. Right now I am just trying to get them used to me, then I can try for a picture. At the beginning birds are always afraid of the camera, so I don’t try for pictures right away, it will just scare the grosbeaks away and make it harder for them to come back again. I hope you all have a most wonderful Christmas today!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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