Bird Boy

Encouraged by his previous success, Aaron went out twice this week to see if he could any birds to land on his hand.  This one flitted from tree to tree getting up his nerves.

Finally he got up the nerve and landed.

 It's a little hard to see, but I caught this one hovering right above his hands.

 Finally he landed as well.

 A blurry close up.

 Aaron has really enjoyed getting the chickadees to land on his hands.   He's even touched one of them on the  back.   Now his next goal is to get a nuthatch to eat out of his hands.

Pasta!

This Sunday, Joe made us another pasta feast.   I told him that I like the trend our Sundays have been taking lately.

This week it was Zite Sangiovanniello (on the left) and Shells with Gorgonzola and Pistachios (on the right).   Both were delicious.   The Zite was light and tasty and the Shells were cheesy and wonderful.

Birds and Snow

Aaron, our bird lover, went outside to fill up the bird feeders.   He stood very still for a long time and was finally successful.

 If you look very closely, you'll see a bird eating out of his hand.   It was a brave and hungry chickadee.

 Our chickens really love the ground under the birdfeeders.   But they don't like walking in the snow.   So Aaron shoveled a path from our coop to the bird feeders.

 The chickens appreciated the path very much.

 But it was a narrow "one chicken wide" path.   Whenever two chickens going opposite directions met, neither one wanted to give way and step into the deeper snow on either side of the path.   It made for entertaining viewing from the window.

Finally - Sledding Snow!

We FINALLY got enough snow to go sledding.

 So we did school faithfully until lunchtime...

 and then hit the big sledding hill in town.

 If the pictures look blurry, it's because it was still snowing while we were sledding.

 Thus the blur by our friend's face!   It looks like one of those crime pictures where they try to hide the face of the innocent person.

 Stephen and his friend relaxing on the slopes.   Stephen took it easy on the sledding hill due to a previous injury.  Nathan and Stephen were trying to run and see how far they could "ski" down the   "generator" ramp sidewalk this morning.   Eventually gravity caught up with them and Stephen came down hard on his hip.   He's mostly disappointed that there isn't a great bruise there.