Book Clubs

For my Good Reads Cozy reads book club we are doing Dick Francis this month. I already read "Banker" and checked out "Shattered" from the library today. I had never heard nor read any by this author and had no idea he wrote a slew of "cozy" mysteries. I really liked "Banker." Was not super suspenseful but written with real eloquence.

For amazon book club I am supposed to be reading " Bruno Chief of Police." by an author with the last name of Walker. This is new author for me also. Unfortunately the Library did not have it. I have had it ordered for a couple weeks and still no show. I was supposed to have read it for discussion by the firsrt. I may not get to do this one. I am disapointed. the posts I have been reading sound interesting concerning said book.

Daily List

I am a home maker at this time in my life, but everyday I make a list to follow daily. I am a list maker and love to cross an item off when i am done doing it. As far as the computer goes Monday-Thursday these are the thing I like to accomplish on my computer: Do the daily poll on swag bucks for a swag buck. Get all the points for the day on Nashville Fish to win prizes with. Got through my 2 email site and read quickly through everything, flag for follow up and delete unessential mails. Go on Twitter and speed read through the posts of my followers. make at least one post. follow 2 or three links of interst I spot. Retweet 3 or so posts. One for a friend with links she has to photos she takes and make a slight amount if someone looks at the site with them showing. I spend about 5-10 minutes on Stumble. I try to do this blog. I try to spend about 15 Mins. on one of my boards or forums to keep up with them all during the week. I like to go on facebook and contact one of my immediate family members which live out of state. I try to go on three other friends walls and peruse photos and see what i may have missed and keep up with them. I follow the news feed for several minutes. Then I answer any Facebook emails I need to follow up on. I try to post at least one update. And if I have time I go back and read emails I have flagged. any time left, I watch sideshows of MSN or read news or other articles I want to learn from.

Update on the Mourning Dove.

My son came home from school and caught the bird on the window sill. He took the poor thing outside and set it under the bird feeder by the seed on the ground. It burst up flying and headed off. It had no back tail feathers left so we could tell it from others of it's kind, but we have not seen it around since. Hope it survived the ordeal. I t was sure excited to be set free. Must have been torturous the 2 or so hours it paced back in front of the window and seeing the outside, but unable to find freedom.

Mourning Dove.

At this moment I am trying to rescue a dove that I found this morning lodged inside my bird feeder. Somehow the birds had knocked it down and the lid came off. this poor bird climbed inside to get at the seed in the bottom and became stuck. I tried to gently pull it out backwards through the hole it got in with, but was too frantic. I could see it's side was red and wounded and was afraid it would lose a wing. All It's tails feathers came out so easily and it was loosing much down.
My dogs were only exacerbating the problem with their curiosity, so I brought the whole feeder with bird inside on the counter. I let the bird calm down for a few minutes then unscrewed the 4 screws holding the feeder plastic inside the cage where the bird was lodged. I did this slowly, stopping as soon as the bird started to frantically slam inside the tubing. and rotating the screws so I could get to them when the bird was calm. I had thought the bird was hurt and would not be able to do what it did, but as soon as I pulled open the top of the feeder and tried to grab the bird so I could either get it in a box until it was well enough to get back outside again or if it seemed well enough let it out the sliding glass door. I tbacked up and flew out so strongly bashing-as I am sure most have observed with a wild bird inside-itself against the walls. I tried to drive it through the open door, but it flew up onto the top of the kitchen cupboard behind an antique sewing machine.
I was concerned about it as it sat there for several hours. I fianlly checked on it as discreetely as possible,hoping it was not dead. It had been so still. I had to climb on the step stool. I was thinking my son might help me with this problem if it could just live out two more hours until he reached home from school. I was very concerned it might be very thirsty by that time. and who could tell how long the stupid thing had been inside the bird feeder. Well this caused the bird to bolt. Back kamikaze into the walls again. Frantically until it landed outside my laundry room. It walked in there. As I followed it rose and dove for the window. It is now pacing back and forth behind the glass staring so longingly outside. If I enter the room it will slam itself in the small area. ! hour till my son gets her and maybe we will be able to help it's survival. I have had birds get in my house before and kill themselves against the window.