Its been cloudy and rainy and drizzly and humid here the past couple days. I love it. Its makes me miss this...

Birdies

I have a bird problem. Or more accurately, my strawberries have a bird problem. The issue is that every day for the past couple days I go outside looking forward to picking a fresh warm red strawberry that I've been patiently waiting for... and there are triangular shaped bites out of it courtesy of my neighborhood robins. I want to fix it.

Now, how shall i do it... Could I rig a shotgun with bird pellets to aim at these feathered bandits? probably not. Could I post my bird-hunting puppy outside? Probably, but she'd take a nap and they'd all flock in. I could also use chicken wire to surround my precious patch. But I think the best option may just be to distract them with some suet or something equally delicious. Sometimes I'm a peacemaker.

Phooey.

Eta Aquariid

(This looks like time lapse... it won't be quite this spectacular.)

For those of you interested, the Eta Aquariid meteor shower of May is rapidly approaching! The shower should peak at about 4 am on Friday May 7th. So if any of you are interested in the third/fourth most fantastic meteor shower in the year, have at it! I haven't decided yet if its worth coming to school on friday armed with only a half nights sleep, but it would be oh so lovely...