miscellaneous

raining today.  i like rainy days, especially if i can be in the comfort of home.  tea is very grander than it already is on a rainy day!

i do not participate in many holiday activities.  one i do is the annual cookie exchange.  this year's was on saturday last and such a wonderful time.  now i get to package the cookies as gifts for others; which i enjoy doing very much.

there are even more birds at the feeders now that the temperature has dropped lower.  one of my twitter followers said she was feeding hummingbirds.  where, this time of year, are hummingbirds?  california! she has hummers all year.  that would be lovely.  although i do look forward to their return each spring as that has a special magic as well.

get ready.....

birds occupy much of my attention during the winter so this whimsical wednesday let's make a homemade bird treat.   remember when we made them by spreading peanut butter on pinecones then rolling the cones in birdseed?  do this.  or, if you don't have a pinecone, use fruit.  cut an orange in half, loosen the pulp and mix seed into the pulp.  the orange itself is the container.  an apple can be used as well.  create holes in the apple by cutting out small circular sections of apple intermittently around the apple.  be sure not to poke all the way through the apple.  after making all the holes, fill the holes with peanut butter and birdseed that was premixed.
you'll have fun with this activity and, if you have children, they will enjoy doing this with you.