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Backyard Birds

February 14, 2008 by Lauren 9 Comments

Y’all are going to count birds this weekend, right? You’re supposed to count ’em and send the info to www.birdcount.org so we can find out just where someone put all the birds. My students are going to look for birds at school (frozen, popsicle-like birdies) through ‘binoculars’ that we shall make from toilet paper tubes. Ah, imagination. Also, we’re going to attempt to reproduce these sickeningly cute birds that I saw at Pottery Barn Kids. I hate Pottery Barn Kids. Everything in there is so dang cute and expensive, and I’m so dang old and cheap. This, though, I like. Its construction should be exceedingly simple.

Birdie, birdie, in the tree.  Birdie, birdie, let me be.

Brad, if we had more money and if you were ten, we would have bought you these:

SuperBrad!

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  1. Deanne says

    February 15, 2008 at 3:53 am

    Doesn’t he have a guest bedroom where they could go? They’re on sale…

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  2. Brad says

    February 15, 2008 at 5:32 am

    Couldn’t you make me sheets like that out of toilet paper tubes or something?

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    • Annette says

      February 15, 2008 at 8:10 am

      And you shall know they’re Lutherans by their craft supplies…..

      Reply
  3. Peggy says

    February 15, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Are you gonna make the tree too? I like the tree. Awesome activity!!! I want to do it too! I’ll make my binoculars today.

    And Brad—you don’t have Superman sheets?!?! What the …

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  4. Curt says

    February 15, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    My comment has nothing to do with this post. I am soooo bored at work today, that I have been reliving your lives. Some good, some bad, some weird, alot funny. My favorites so far have been of your cats although I keep going back to the bacon mats. (in a Homer Simpson voice) Mmmmm..bacon. Don’t be suprised to see comments from old posts.

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  5. Stephannie says

    February 15, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    EWWW – creepy “easter egg”!

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    • Lauren says

      February 15, 2008 at 7:13 pm

      Thank you for finding it, Steph! Didn’t anyone watch Nightmare Before Christmas??

      Reply
      • Deanne says

        February 16, 2008 at 5:51 am

        I don’t remember that guy… guess it’s time to watch it again. (Good movie! Did I tell you that the Haunted Mansion at Disney was made into Nightmare Before Christmas for Christmas–cool, except we couldn’t really understand the story. That just means we’ll have to go back again at Christmas sometime!)

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