Wednesday Was a Day of All Days!

First of all, the hyacinth bulbs.
(I sure hope they bloom, after all this publicity!)

Secondly, a young friend of mine and I went shopping.

He purchased a double shepherd's hook, a thistle seed birdfeeder,
thistle seed, a suet holder and suet cakes.

Enter "Shady" with a drill and drill bit!
"What?" you ask?
Don't forget folks! It's still Winter here in Iowa...
The ground is frozen solid! In order to put anything into the ground,
one must be resourceful... hence, the drill. :-)

That's the best I could do for now. My drill bit wasn't long enough...
but it's standing, and it's holding the bird food!
(albeit crookedly!) ha.

Yes, there's more! Please know that I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself! :-)

Lastly, I picked up a friend and we drove about an hour's drive north to a small town where I'd seen 55 gallon plastic (formerly holders-of-food) barrels for sale. We loaded 6 of them into Mr. Shady's pickup truck, and headed back home. My friend took one, and I gave another to a friend who'd requested one. The other four are in my screened in porch - just waiting for Spring, and the operation Mr. Shady will perform, to turn them into bona fide water collection barrels!

Yes, my friends!

We are one step closer to my long-time desire of owning and operating water-collection barrels. They will collect the water from the downspouts on either side of the back of the house. They will also have an overflow that will take momentary excess back into the current "r-outing" system. I hope to have two of the barrels connected to each other before the overflow operates. No matter what happens... it will be Good!

I pasted Jan's (Thanks for 2Day) theme logo here, because she's hosting a "Mother Earth Give-away." I posted a couple of days ago. My future rainbarrels were a part of that post.

Why don't you give her a visit? Click on her name, above, for all the details!