Three

I got a quandary. 

Lee and I went to Lowe's and Lee bought a bird house looks like a wheely house.  It was on the top shelf ~ last one left ~ they got the rolling steps to get it down ~ they shook it. 

We put it in our cart, got a few other things we needed.  Went an checked out.  Stopped at Graeter's Ice Cream. 

Got five miles down the road heard chirping.

Well the bird house has babies.  They sold me an occupied house.  Went back to Lowe's they refused to put it back!  I told them to just keep our money put the bird house back ~ NO LUCK.  Said they do their best to keep birds out of store.   

Three babies! 

Yep I, Sweet William The Scot, have three wards.

Dam Lee tricked me again I thought she said reward and I came running for a treat instead she told me I had wards to watch the babies.  DARN!
Shut your mouths I just fed you all.

We have named them Little, Spikey and Flappy.

I think Spikey would be a great mate for Kismet. Why look at his hair.  It takes talent to make it stand up like that.  Kismet could be a cougar and date a younger guy I date an older woman, Bella.

Kismet I got my eye on you.  Just you wait I'm coming for you!  I can fertilize those eggs.

They are Black-capped chickadee and the bird rescue society here in Nati told us to let nature take its course which meant to let them die but they said if we wanted to try to keep them alive feed them soaked cat food and boiled eggs with the shell ground for calcium.  Right now Nati is going through a Cicada year hundreds of the darn things.  They say to squish the white new ones and feed them those also. 

I've got my eyes on you!

So wish us luck we are on day three and they are doing great eat, poop, sleep and repeat.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Stowe Home

Well it was suppose to be open for tours.  A couple from Alabama, two ladies from Dayton, Ohio and Lee and I were waiting for the Docent but she never came.

In 1832, 21-year old Harriet Beecher,  moved with her family from Litchfield, Connecticut to Ohio. 

Nati City was then an area active in the abolitionist movement.  It was also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation at the time.

See me, Sweet William The Scot, sitting on the porch where Harriet Beecher Stowe walked.

It was in Cincinnati that Harriet Beecher began her writing career.

She published her book The Mayflower while living in Nati.

It was also while living in Cincinnati that Stowe traveled to Maysville, Kentucky in 1833 and witnessed a slave auction.

The distress Beecher felt was one of several experiences that inspired her book Uncle Tom's Cabin years later.

Maysville, Kentucky is hometown to Nick Clooney, George Clooney's father. 

(Lee worked in downtown Cincinnati for years and would see and talk to Nick Clooney who is an American journalist, anchorman, and television host).

Harriet lived here for various periods of time from 1833 until her marriage to professor Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. Her first two children, twins Eliza and Harriet, were born in the house in 1836.

Harriet's brother, Henry Beecher, also resided in the Cincinnati Beecher House.  Rev. Henry Beecher was an early leader in the women's suffrage movement and popular Protestant minister.

 The 5,000 square foot house was completed in 1833 and was constructed specifically to house the president of the Lane Seminary.

The house was provided by the seminary to the Beechers. Harriet and most of her brothers and sisters (11 Beecher children lived to adulthood) lived with their father in this house.

The Beecher Family in moving to Nati City along the way traveled through other eastern cities to raise money for the seminary. 

Lane Theological Seminary was considered the forward outpost of the Presbyterian Church in the western territories of the United States.

Harriet's father was the first President of the Seminary in 1832.

The last remnants of the Cincinnati campus were destroyed in 1956. So other than the Historical Marker sitting on the site there is no evidence of it ever having been here.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

See my large red peony well it stinks BAD!!!!

Lee has to grow the only peony that STINKS!

P. lactiflora cultivar, introduced from Japan, 1893; Japanese form, red, late midseason, approx. 40 - 43" (100 - 110 cm) tall, very floriferous, unpleasant fragrance

Variety was introduced to the U.S.A. by the Japanese exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

Brown Balls

I, Sweet William The Scot, saw them.  Lee came home with big brown balls for me.

Not one brown ball

BUT

Two brown balls.

What the heck Lee buried my brown balls in this big pot and bag of potting soil she came home with.

How am I ever going to reach them.
I want the brown balls.

Lee keeps saying brown BULBS but I hear BALLS.

Lee's Great Grandmother grew the plant in her yard.

Do you know what it is??

Lookie what we saw in our travels.  Lee says maybe that is for us.  Pack a few things that we cherish and hit the open road and let the taxes eat up the house then the city would foreclose and any extra money they got at auction they could mail us or not.  But our home is paid for.  So maybe we should take out a home improvement loan and walk away from that also.  Two people on the street have.  Lee has never walked away from anything her whole life.  But her frustration level is boiling!

A person bought the "I Love You More House".

And she came to our door, which our friend Janet answered, and did an interrogation loudly of us (other neighbors heard).  Accused Lee of sending them information regarding zoning then stated "there were ways around the law".  Now don't you love that.  We were totally out of the loop.  Well the loop is running a commercial business on property zoned residential.

  Well Lee's hair stylist is getting her a sign to hang by our doorbell which reads

"If You Cannot Be a Rainbow

Then

F*** Off"
It is a shame that the F word is the only word some of society understand.

That would have gone lovely with the Love The Neighbor Sign that we had in the front yard that was stolen.

I, Sweet William The Scot, think Puddles' neighbors moved here.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true

And your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

When Lee said she had rode her grandmother's horse over at the Indiana State Park where the BAR was we got called out for not showing Lee and told it was probably a lie.  Well here Lee is on her first pony ~ we have been going through a lot of pictures since doing our Ancestry work.  Lee is four in this picture yep hit the saddle early.

Since Lee's mother had Schizophrenia and always blamed Lee in her fits it is hard for Lee when she is accused of doing things she has not done and now she takes a very defensive attitude.  An even more defensive attitude since being assaulted in December.

See Ya!  Got to dig up some balls.