Some time ago, I had a Kitchen Gardeners International “Eat the View” campaign widget in my sidebar. In my rearranging and changing formats, it did not return. “Eat the View” is a campaign designed to encourage the White House to convert a portion of presidential lawn into an edible landscape. Roger Doiron, founder of KGI, recently uploaded this YouTube video of digging a new garden on his “white house” lawn.

I enjoyed the video so much, I wanted to share.

This is part one of the new video over at Path to Freedom Urban Homesteaders. It gives a QUICK look at garden before an interview with Farmer D.
I have more to say, but we are running out the door to catch a movie with DD as a belated birthday celebration. Oh, and I want to say that My Hero came home with a small cake to celebrate last night.

In the past, Blue Jays have not been in my good favor. In every location I have lived, prior to here, the Blue Jays were aggressive, threatening, and pretty much a nuisance. This year is different. Not too long ago, we rescued a baby Jay from one of our window wells. All day, I would go out and check on it and talk to his momma sitting on a nearby branch. I shaded the well from the afternoon sun. The little darling had to sit in the well all day until DH could get home because I am not agile enough to do the climb down into our deep wells, and…well, I was somewhat afraid.

Here is the video of the rescue…..

And a few photos of the little darling……

The last photo is of mom sitting on the roof of the house next door, where we were trying to get baby into the shrubs.

After a bit, DH tried to get the baby bird to go into some shrubbery and it began causing quite a commotion. Quick as as lick, the momma was right there, and was within inches of swipin’ the top of DH’s head. (See that is why I am afraid of them.) I don’t have photos or videos of that part because I was too busy cowering.

Early this morning DH tippy toed (haha) into the dining room to say come quickly…but quietly…momma was feeding her baby from my tea cup feeder. So many times, I have tried to catch the mom eating from my feeder, but she has been quite elusive. Today, I was actually able to covertly slip onto the back porch to snap a few photos of mom’s and kid’s antics. I wish I knew if this was the li’l darlin’ we rescued or not. Momma rewards me for placing food in her feeder by immediately coming for the dinner call. Sometimes she will dart right in even if I am still puttering in the yard.

The photos are not as clear as I would have liked, but under the circumstances they aren’t too bad.

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Brought to us by Peak Moment

Lately, I have been a bit afraid to travel. It seems that we cannot go anywhere without having to dodge storms…some that include tornadoes. Sunday, we traveled to Kansas City and then returned in the same day. I saw some of the most unique clouds I have ever seen while on this trip.  This video shows a storm in the Greensburg area.

You can view some sky photos at my new photo blog Kansas Weather.