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.
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…