Of Birds and Stomach Bugs

Today is the first day of Christmas break. It is also day 3 of a nasty stomach bug that has invaded our house.

First Timmy, then me, now Layla.

NOT fun.

3 nights of no sleep. 3 days of cleaning up after people and living on the couch.I think we have watched each of the Toy Story movies about 46 times. It’s Timmy’s new obsession.

I have a lot of Christmas baking to do. These germs need to move on out so I can get it done. It may turn into after Christmas/New Years baking. We’ll see.

Before the germs hit…

It snowed again today. Just enough to cover the ground.

I don’t think it will stick around long but if it could just hang out for a couple days…some white on Christmas would be nice.

You know what would make snow 100 times better?

BRIGHT RED CARDINALS.

I miss Alabama birds.

There is a website I used in AL all the time while bird ‘hunting’ called Whatbird.com. Very helpful in figuring out all of the birds I was able to snap pictures of in the yard. I haven’t found anything comparable to use here…not that I’ve looked very hard.

For the most part I can tell you my yard is full of ugly brown birds aka finches. Or sparrows. Whatever. I had a ton in Alabama and I didn’t like them. They ate all of my bird seed that I put out for the prettier birds.

Anywho, I think I mentioned some chickadee looking birds. And now that Ive said I couldnt find a bird resource I found a site with a list of a million birds in Korea. The Chickadee/Titmouse section doesnt have one that looks like mine though. Who knows.

I also found this black/yellow/white/brown thing.

I need to get out more. There are some neat birds here just obviously not at my house.

3.5 days until Christmas.

And then only one more in Korea.

I’m working on my 2012 in Photos post. I’ll have it up next week.