Finally Friday

Welcome to the weekend. It was a busy day as is the norm.

After work I headed over to Regency Square to do some shopping. I stopped off first at Lane Bryant - they had bras buy 2 get 2 free. That's a deal that is hard to pass up. I did find one shirt there but that was all. There several other pieces but the looked so much better on the hanger. I tried Sears, not my usual stop, since I was right next door and the stop paid off. I was able to pick up a couple of pair of nice pants and a sundress. But the BIGGEST find was shoes that are fantastically lightweight AND comfortable.

After I got home this evening, I was messing around with a couple of photos and created this neat animation. This is the officer I normally see in the evenings directing traffic on the way home. I took the photos that created this a couple of days ago on my way home. It was just sheer luck that the two photos merged together so well. Nothing like see the county's finest each evening holding up traffic.

Walter's out this evening with Patrick having some fun. We're both scheduled to give blood in the morning.

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Maxine's Marvelous Views
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it is, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table everywhere!

Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the
bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like it used to be.... quiet, serene and no one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now let's see.

Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free
education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.

Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.

Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'Old Glory' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder. If you agree, pass it on; if not, continue cleaning up the poop.