Hummingbird Pandemonium 2009

This is just a sample of the hummingbirds this year. Each year we get more and more because they come back to the place where they were born. I have 13 feeders out this year and I refill 3-4 of them each day. They refuse to share!

I want to find a big feeder with like 10 feeding ports on it.

Very cool - 100 years later

I'm putting together our collection of Vintage Strathmere postcards for a display that will be in the Schiavo Library in Strathmere. Our house in Strathmere was part of the West Jersey Cottages, a hotel that was very popular with fishermen in the early 1900s. The postcard above will appear in the display. It was taken on the front porch of the West Jersey Cottage. Gus Wittkamp is the 2nd man from the right, he owned the cottages and we bought our house from his daughter.
Anyway, I looked at the back of the postcard and it is postmarked 'Aug 10 1909' - exactly 100 years ago today! I just thought that was too cool. To think that someone sent the postcard from our house 100 years ago, and now I have it, and I'm putting it in a display in the Strathmere Library. Very cool.

Everybody's doing it!

It took me awhile to get it to save, but it was fun Mad Men-ning myself -

I wish I looked this pulled together! I don't smoke or drink, but I wanted something in my hand, so I went with the cig, since Mad Men is so full of smoking.

Mad Men yourself here -
http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/