The Trouble with Tribbles

In May I had just two birds. I’m glad that only half of the eggs hatched. I was hoping one of the chicks would be yellow like the mother. Well, there you go.

The grey is the father. The yellow bird in the lower left is the mother. The other four are the shiny new birds.

There were two clutches of eggs. Only one hatched from the first. Then three more hatched. Last month, the chicks from group 2 looked like this:

The mother bird is laying eggs again, but I don’t need any more birds. It will be sad to toss the eggs out.

Texas Master Gardener’s Collin County

Half way through the courses. (http://www.ccmgatx.org/)

  • Botany/Horticulture
  • Entomology
  • Plant Pathology
  • Earth Kind Environmental Stewardship
  • Soil and Water (September 27, 2011)
  • Plant Propagation & Composting(October 4, 2011)
  • Arboriculture
  • Landscape Design
  • Lawn Management (October 25, 2011)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (November 1, 2011)
    • My turn to bring snacks!!
  • Plant Selection (November 8, 2011)
  • Plant Selection (November 15, 2011)
  • Final Exam (November 29, 2011)

Quote

“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

John 3:8

Knowledge without the Spirit Falls Short of Wisdom

Ecclesiastes 3

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Corinthians 13:8…

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.