Monday and Millie is Blue

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Happy Monday everyone! I was planning a great idea to make a paw print ornament, but it didn’t work out. I was too lazy to deal with the dough kind, but now I am going to try that for next week. I bought a bunch of plastic ornaments and planned to have each kitty’s paw print on one with non-toxic paint. I tried with Millie and all I got was a big glob of paint. I forgot their fur would be in the way. And poor Millie has a blue paw now ( it is a pretty color).

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So for fun and games this week, we have bird TV. When I got back from the mall on Saturday, the porch was filled with bags of bird seed. I figured my hubby got tired of me calling him a cheapo, but it was a cardinal chirping at him while he was outside that got him to put up the bird feeders.

009I scared the birds when I opened the window ( I left the screen down though so no cats would jump out).

The cats love watching the blue jays, cardinals, woodpeckers, nuthatches, juncos, goldfinches and grossbeaks. Even if you can’t afford to put a variety out, you could throw out some bread or popcorn.

I also found a cheap idea at: http://thinkcrafts.com/blog/2014/04/14/easy-bird-treat/ . You just take an empty toilet paper roll and coat it with peanut butter then you roll it in bird seed.

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  3. Sorry to hear about Millie’s blue paw, but we are glad it was non-toxic paint. 🙂

    Hooray for Bird TV! We love your clever ideas for feeding/attracting those feathered friends.

  9. At least you tried to make the ornaments! At best, all I could get was Angel chewing on the corner of a couple of Christmas cards, but that’s it for ‘arts and crafts’ around our house.

  10. Hey! Our brother Quint knows that paw color thing well. Very well! MOL! Yippee for bird seed (and for bird TV)! Thanks for that bird seed tip. Our mom is always looking for ways to help fill those bird bellies! Purrs….

  12. Paw prints always *seem* like a good idea. 🙂
    I have bird tv, but there aren’t many channels. We get Western scrub jays (like blue jays), hummingbirds, and Black Phoebe. Mom’s calls the phoebe “crazy bird” because it has a crazy flight pattern as it catches bugs. Very rarely we get a few quail walking through the yard.

    1. I would love to see the Black Phoebe bird. I miss our hummingbirds, they left quite a while ago for the winter.

  13. You guys get a way better variety of birds for Bird TV than we do. We have sparrows, some blue jays and lots of squirrels.

    1. I hope we don’t get squirrels, but we usually do. They can be very destructive to the feeders.

    1. Thank you, I wish the toilet paper was my idea, but I found it on the link I posted.

  16. We hope our Mom does not get any ideas about our paws!
    Mom always puts out seed and likes the TP roll idea 🙂
    We bet the squirrels will too. heehee
    Purrs Georgia and Julie,
    Treasure and JJ

  17. I used to save all the rendered fat from bacon, ect, warm it up and blend in bird seed for home-made suet. I would use tupperware sandwich keepers for the molds and chill ’em. It only works in cold weather but the birds LOVED it.

    1. That was a good idea. I used to mix peanut butter and store bought lard, but it is pricey.

  18. I’ve seen that peanut butter bird thing. I’ve also seen recipes for DIY cat/dog rint ornaments. I made Charlie Rascal have a pink paw when I axed for his pawtograph.

  19. You can also do the peanut butter and bird seed with pinecones as well. They hold up better in the rain and snow. We go through about 5 pounds of bird seed a week trying to keep bird TV up and running. It does make us so happy to be able to watch the birdies efurryday! Ho, ho, ho, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

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