Frustration

I’ve been trying to get some things in the house organized and get my children to do their regular chores without me having to yell or tell them anything and it’s just not ever working to make that happen without me getting very, very frustrated.

Mostly of all it’s this house that is too small, not enough places for organization, and a husband who just doesn’t get things completed that need to be to ‘move on’ either with this house or to another one sooner than later.

My boys have too many Bionicles. They don’t think so, hubby doesn’t think so really, I thought so years ago and any sort of curb on them that I’ve instituted has gone totally by the wayside. We don’t have enough rooms for the children really, no room to store all those silly lego creatures. I try and get them motivated to do schooling and it’s more than I can manage and time crunch is coming up soon that they HAVE to buckle down and do it with September right around the corner.

I wanted to ‘get ahead’ with the house and education and it’s just not working at all. I’m so sick of it and I have no idea how to get anyone motivated any more, and even my computer makes me crazy, as I type sometimes it’s trying to catch up like right there the words just don’t print as I type and delete and backup are slow, and I have no idea if why, it’s actually done this forever, since I’ve had it and maybe I should just throw this stupid HP Pavilion tx2500 out the door since it’s just a nice touch screen computer that is a hassle to type on, fine for browsing, but most typing????? ACKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

About My New Hummer Feeders

I was able to get a new bird feeder yesterday, a lovely copper and glass Hummingbird feeder. It’s where I used to put one when I had a deck, the hanger I installed won’t come off, so it’s permanent in a way now. I have to use a ladder to access the spot.

I can view it where I am now, typing, it’s through the kitchen out the window, a far distance but I can see it. Also there is another one I got some months ago and finally installed out front off of the porch, and I can see it from where I stand as well. So far I’ve seen only 1 bird, either a female or juvenile. It seems to really like the newer one the best. The one out front has 3 copper chains that come down to a “basket” that holds the clear plastic dish w/ clear glass top. It’s a beautiful glass top with formed flowers of red glass around the feeding holes. The new one out back is a vertical cylinder glass tube with a copper top and copper base. The base has a perch extended from it that circles the entire bottom. The feeding holes have red painted metal flowers around them.

Frank says he’s seen the hummer out front a lot, since he’s out there on the phone for work often. I haven’t seen it there much, just did in fact, and just the other day for the first time since putting the feeder out some days before that, though others in the house say they’d seen it. There it is again now.

I’ve uploaded a photo of my new feeder on Flickr and also made a Photo post of it here.