Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for May 04, 2024

We’ve got mostly hooded, Bullock’s, and orchard orioles in my neighborhood, and they do like sugary fruit treats. There were more orioles decades ago when The Valley of Heart’s Delight was mostly wild land and orchards.

My guess is Wiley.

…my house is being guest to ants…

…and last night on the wall…

…by the Seth-Thomas clock and a standing lamp…

…a lethargic wasp…

…though the birdseed is out…

…and my house guest robyn up and about…

…I was visited by a centipede…

…which I picked up with toilet paper…

…only to only get about a dozen still moving legs…

…but no pede…

…the blue Jay does make itself known…

…the cardinals sin like they created it…

…still not deciding on a house…

…[just pick one fellows]…

…the buzzards circle…

…but…

…ah, yes, my little chickadee…

…you’re so square…

…but I don’t care…

…Willy Miller?…

My guess is Nancy Beiman, who does the FurBabies comic strip.

If I guess correctly do I get Ruben Bolling’s GoCreator pin?

I’m changing my guess to Dave Whamond.

No, Amanda El-Dweek. How many guesses do we get?

I’ve been stocking up on Smuckers. In the next few weeks, there will come a time when the shelves are bare at the store.

You can track the movements of the orioles as they make their way north, online.

Web Search: Journey North UW-Madison Arboretum

Orioles and hummingbirds love sugar. You can have a feeder that accommodates both with sugar water, which is mixed at a ratio of 4:1, one cup of water for a quarter cup of sugar. These feeders have to be cleaned regularly. Some oriole feeders have cups for jelly. With those, you can just remove the cup and replace it with a cleaned and filled cup. Much more convenient. Park Seed has a nice Major Wheeler honeysuckle that seems to be doing well here so far, in spite of harsh weather. That will attract the hummingbirds.

Last time I saw Orioles was in Utah in around 1983. Two beautiful ones, with red and yellow coloring, cavorting in an Austrian copper Rose Bush behind my house. I wish I had had a camera available at the time, they are so beautiful.

The Baltimore Oriole is one of my favourite birds from when I was growing up in the suburbs of New York City. Now that I live in Germany I get to enjoy the Eichelhäher (Garrulus glandarius) on the rare occasions when it shows up in my garden.

eric scott

We feed Rufous and Anna’s hummingbirds here

willingly

while our new, tender plants are munched by deer

willy-nilly.

The lush orange and green flashes of throats

glitteringly

help rid us of primal urges to build deer moats

sweatingly.

Only… imagine having such a high metabolism

- unwillingly? -

Boldly… one must hibernate, without miss, every o’night

- unfailingly! -

to survive ’til next morning,

for another go at more sipping

from red-hued feeders and flowers,

the water-sugars of more living hours.

— from “Lipsticked Pigs Can’t Fly but Feathered Bears Do,” in the upcoming “Nominally Nature Notes” series on Maypo cereal boxes and ten-pound bags of Boy Howdy! cane sugar

Cal Ripken

HA! Now you just told me how to catch ‘em… bwaaa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

… I tried the salt-on-their-tails-thing, but that didn’t work.

How does this happen?

When napping?

HA! That would be me. Thanks for the nod, T.

The Orioles I’ve seen around here fly at the top of the American League East!

My cartoonist guess: Bill Watterson

charles9156 ’s guess, though, was my favorite …!

Aw heck, it wasn’t Al Capp or Peter Arno.

Grape Jelly at restaurant where toast may be ordered.

It tis the day of pkag for enough on one slice.

Is grape jelly a magical elixir, or will any jelly do? What about raspberry jelly or marmalade? I, myself, am partial to apricot jelly, but I have yet to learn how to fly; outside of metaphorically.

Re: Blog

The dog smell/time video is fascinating to me. I’ve known for some time that a dogs sense of smell is their primary sensory input, and they use it to map/navigate/ make sense of their world, and this is a wonderful new wrinkle to learn about.

It’s a fascinating area of study and makes me wonder what other modes of perception we have yet to uncover, and that could lead to technological breakthroughs.

So, THAT’s what it takes to get a reply from Sister Teresa?

I am SO jelly.

Is there going to be a new Frog Applause for May 5? I was waiting so I could wish you a happy birthday on that comic’s date. Until then, I guess——————HAPPY BIRHTDAY, SISTER!!!!

I’ll check back later for a new Frog Applause.

Now here is something that I found interesting. My oriole feeder is like a rectangular box, open on the two long sides, with a curved top and a bottom that has two places for jelly cups. I place it so that the open sides are facing east and west. Once upon a time, I repositioned it, so that the open sides faced north and south. The orioles had trouble landing when I did that, being used to the east-west sides being open. I put it pack the other way, and they went back to their usual adept aerobatics.

Happy Bird Day 2U!

… the richest man in the world grumbled that his employees were greedy and wanted too much money…

…as he watched his rocket explode as it attempted to land…

…Howard decided that Micky D’s cost too much…

…and grumbled that the loaf of white bread and the jar of off brand grape jelly from the Dollar Tree now cost $1.25 a piece…

…get over it slammed his brother…

…it’s his company…

…he has a right to pay whatever he wants…

…could he pay a living wage?…

…pay his taxes so we could all have health care?…

…yes…

…if Jesus told him to sell all that he had would he still be sad?…

…no…

…because he wouldn’t do it…

…these rockets don’t explode on themselves…

…now…

…strawberry or grape?…

…Dear, Mz. Burritt…

…both HaPpY birthday…

…and HaPpY Carroonist Day!…

…and many many more! …

Happy day to you, Teresa!

Apparently, a double celebration: …/foxtrot/2024/05/05

Bump a bump-bump-bump, TA-KILL-YA …‼️

( Ahora es el día después del 4 de mayo )