A group of House Sparrows went splishing and splashing together at our birdbath. Along with my hostess story, I’ll share some new nature photos from this week.
We had guests come to town from Palm Springs that we’ve been friends with for more than 30 years. I invited them for dinner and worked all day, shopping, cleaning, prepping, cooking — I even baked a cherry pie!
I worked hard to make sure everything was perfect. They were 30 minutes late when they finally called. They said they were on a certain street looking for our house.
“No, we aren’t near that street,” I said.
“Maybe we typed in the address incorrectly.”
I double checked the text I had sent them. Oooops. It was me!
“I’m so sorry!” I said. “I made a typo on our address.” They’ve never been to our house in Arizona before and I could feel their aggravation. Of course, they told me not to worry, but they had been driving in circles for 30 minutes — and they were in a neighborhood 30 minutes away from our home!
Everything was perfect — except for giving them the correct address….
I captured a closeup of one of our three squirrels. I caught them on our fountain yesterday, while I was waiting for our guests. I don’t want them messing with it, so I flipped the switch to on. The water shot up ten feet in the air. Boy, were they surprised! They scattered before the fountain started. I bet they can hear it before the action starts.
We had three to seven sparrows at the birdbath. I like this photo because of the guy on the right making a landing.
I think I’ll rest after PT and all my socializing this week. I’ll tell you about the ladies’ night out to biker bars in Cave Creek on another day.
What are your plans for this weekend?
That’s a very popular bird bath!
Hope the cherry pie made up for the hour long oopsie delay for your guests.
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It is getting popular. First time we had a crowd!
What a kerfuffle, E.A! I’m sure your friends forgave you immediately. 🤭 Adorable photos!
I felt so bad to cause them an extra hour of driving.
Sooo cute! What an adorable bird bath party! Can I ask you what brand this is? I need to replace my old clay type baths, they are looking rough at 11 years old. We all make mistakes, forgive you and move on. Mr. Squirrel is so sweet too, they always remind me of the Chipmunks back in Michigan.
I ordered the birdbath on Amazon: “Visit the OUISJYER Store 13″ Metal Bird Bath for Outside 3″ Deep Removable Bowl with Stake.”
The squirrel looks like the chipmunks we had in Washington state too. I got corrected by a local when I called it a chipmunk.
Thanks Elizabeth, I’ll have a look!
I like it because the bowl can be removed to clean and fill with the hose.
I see, I use a five gallon bucket to haul water to both baths. Easier than dragging the retractable hose around.
👍🏼 Our first birdbath had the bath basin connected to the stand. I like this much better. It give you more options on how to clean and fill it.
Thanks!
Oh no, the bad directions sounds like something I would do. I hope everything went smoothly once they arrived.
Yes. We had a great time. So nice to see people from “back home.” We saw them on our drive home from Santa Barbara in September. I still feel badly about giving them the wrong address.
It was good after they finally made it to our house. They told me I’m much better at baking pie than giving directions!
On the bright side, your friends got a tour of a part of Arizona they’ll probably never see again.
Can I come over for pie? And please give me the correct address.
I guess you look at the one-hour tour that way. Sure. I’ll let you know next time I bake a pie.
Ive screwed up addresses before …😉. my husband is in a business trip then he’s flying to see his mom in Florida. I have two movies planned a pedicure, and a date with some memories boxes and a few trips to salvation army…
It’s embarrassing to not catch my typo on our street address. I double checked our gate code five times because I use a clicker and had to look up what the code was. Sounds like a fun weekend.
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Ha, I read that and thought that was funny. Visiting a friend recently, I messed up the address and it had us going to Brooksville, no, same street but Weeki Wachi! We got there! Going to a vendor event to meet an local author I follow.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one to do that with addresses. I felt sorry for our friends because they drove four and a half hours from Palm Springs and then I had them drive an extra hour! Sounds like a fun event to meet a local author.
Yeah, I am obsessive with the heavy traffic about getting the directions right, so I knew before we left as it was about an hour or so away. Pleasant drive as it was Veteran’s Day and not as heavy traffic.
Good for you. I’m with you on traffic.
Oh my goodness – the turning on the fountain story. Hilarious! Sorry about the typo. It happens. And a biker bar? Wow, you really have had a week!
It was a week for the history books!
What a week Elizabeth! The birds, the bikers, the typo! I’m so sorry about that. It happens to all of us and what can you do? They eventually arrived and I imagine you had a fabulous time. Hugs, C
Thank you. It was a stellar week. A neighbor rented a stretch limo for 10 of us who used to volunteer helping sex-trafficked victims. After that organization went defunct, we get together once a month for fun. I will ask the ladies if I can post some photos of us dressed up for the biker bar!
We had a wonderful time with our Palm Springs friends that we met before kids. So nice to spend time together, but I still feel guilt about wasting their time.
Spectacular bird bath photo! Love it!
I had almost not noticed that the weekend is upon us. D’oh! I’ll be doing some painting on Sunday 🙂
J
So glad you liked it!
Oh my! How embarrassing to send your friends on a wild goose chase.😳 I’m sure they forgave you, especially after a bite of that pie.
They had to drive four and a half hours from Palm Springs before my extra hour! They did make the comment about my pie baking ability being better than my texting typos and directions! I’m so grateful my husband asked me to bake a pie and I agreed. I was going to skip it!