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Post by rin68nyr on Oct 26, 2012 18:44:08 GMT -6
Yep! Lots of Christmas Tree Shops around here! It's not just Christmas stuff. It's mostly home decor and knick-knacks. Good prices, but not high quality. But for party decorations and things you WANT cheap, they are great! Some of their stuff really is nice.
Erin
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Post by fangsfan1 on Oct 26, 2012 19:22:38 GMT -6
Yeah, I loooove Christmas Tree Shop. My sister got me an owl figurine with a black cat for my birthday, so cute. We love both at my house!
I have never eaten at Cracker Barrel but have always wanted to. THere's one about an hour from where I live but whenever I go it's always a really long wait to get in-very popular.
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Post by misscharlotte on Oct 28, 2012 10:44:12 GMT -6
Sometimes it's a long wait.. but most of the time I guess we show up just after the rush has gone through.
That's it. I'm going to go look online to see if we might have a Christmas Tree shop in our area. For us, it might be something like our Halloween stores (I went to one yesterday.) but these only show up during the season. If we might have a Christmas Tree shop it might be in Little Rock at a place I've never been to before. You know they would have them listed someplace online with addresses of their locations. I think it would be fun to see one.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Dec 9, 2012 12:50:13 GMT -6
Yesterday during our outting, we stopped at the gift store. We gave our son a choice of stuffed animals that he wanted. We held up an owl and a skunk... guess what he chose? THE SKUNK!  ;D He held onto it all night long. I just came across this when I popped in here and had to say-I had a stuffed skunk when I was little that I played with all the time-I think I still have him upstairs somewhere.  I have posted before how I like to keep changing my desktop wallpaper-this time of year it's always Christmas scenes. I put up one of a Christmas village from one of my favorite artists, Americana painter Charles Wysocki. I was looking at all the details and I spotted a little owl perched in a branch looking down at everything! |
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Post by fangsfan1 on Dec 11, 2012 19:29:40 GMT -6
I found out today one of the best ways to see lots and lots of owls. Just watch Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone!!
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Post by misscharlotte on Dec 12, 2012 7:28:35 GMT -6
I found out today one of the best ways to see lots and lots of owls. Just watch Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone!! Yeah. That is where I saw Duddahs for the first time. Isn't it cool to have a movie star in our midst?  |
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Post by fangsfan1 on Dec 29, 2012 19:20:41 GMT -6
I got owl stuff for Christmas! An owl pen, little owl candles, an owl bank and a sparkly owl bracelet. Very cool. I"m thinking about going out and getting it anyway.
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Post by misscharlotte on Jan 3, 2013 16:41:33 GMT -6
I got owl stuff for Christmas! An owl pen, little owl candles, an owl bank and a sparkly owl bracelet. Very cool.  Oh I'm so jealous! I came close to getting a brand new wall calendar of owls this year. I chose to purchase the Harry Potter one of magical creatures instead. |
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Post by Duddahs on Jan 10, 2013 12:11:50 GMT -6
 When the family comes for dinner! |
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Post by rin68nyr on Feb 25, 2013 15:38:09 GMT -6
Saw a really cool owl up close today! Our 5th grade is studying adaptations in nature so they had a bird lady come in, and part of her presentation had a couple of live birds. One was a beautiful owl! She keeps wild animals that have an injury or some other condition that won't allow it to survive in the wild. This owl had gotten hit by a car, and her vision isn't good enough for hunting in the wild. She was beautiful! We were in a classroom, and while we couldn't touch the birds, she did bring them really close!
Erin
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Post by Duddahs on Mar 4, 2013 10:05:24 GMT -6
It is still cold out here and we still have some snow on the ground from our record breaking snow fall of several weeks ago.
Last night, as I was outside saying good night to where the dudespup has been sleeping, I heard the soft hooting of an Owl off at the park... It made a small bit of a tear come to my eyes and a big lump in my tummy but it made me feel so comforted. Then it began to flurry so very gently... I went to bed wistful and yet feeling very full of love.
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Post by misscharlotte on Mar 12, 2013 19:00:16 GMT -6
 I saw an Owl cake today.
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Post by nz101nz on Apr 1, 2013 14:51:26 GMT -6
 Here is a smiley I've found of Hedwig and Pig. Enjoy! |
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Post by Duddahs on Apr 5, 2013 10:38:28 GMT -6
It was a little cool last evening but I was sitting in the living room with all of the front windows open and just relaxing after dinner...
A soft hooting from the park was sounding out even though it was not fully dark out. It must be mating time for our park Owls....
I love that during the morning, I have the cooing of the Morning Doves that come to meet in one of my Holly Tree's just outside my breakfast nook window.. They must just love the Holly buds... I know that all of the other birds do, especially the Cardinals.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Apr 6, 2013 7:46:26 GMT -6
How I would love to see those owls Duddahs. I've still never seen one in person other than at the Wildlife Park. We have lots of morning doves here too, I've always loved them and I think they have such sweet faces.
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Post by misscharlotte on Apr 6, 2013 12:45:01 GMT -6
Are they actually called "Morning Doves?"
Before we moved into town, about four years ago, my hubby handmade Bluebird houses to nail to several of the fence posts around the property. Oh they loved them. That last year we had about a dozen or so little Bluebirds flying around our home. We miss them now that we live in town. Still, we took with us one of the houses just in case some are living around here. He kept it as a template to make more. Turned out that after he took out the little Finch nest which was nesting inside the overhead porch light box, he nailed this little Bluebird house directly above our huge front window. One moved in. I could pretty much use this Finch to set my clock. It leaves each morning, at about 6:20am, chirping loudly as it jumps from the house to our porch trellis's, then on with it's day. Again in the evening, when the sun is going down, it lands on a branch of our Crepe Myrtle just before jumping into the house.
SO.... we do have brownish gray colored doves we see here every day. Are those what you guys call Morning Doves? I sometimes hear them cooing.
And here I miss the owls we had living near our old home.
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Post by fangsfan1 on Apr 6, 2013 20:01:10 GMT -6
Yes we call them morning doves here-I've also seen them called mourning doves, I think because some people think their cry sounds mournful-but I've always loved it and never thought it sounded sad.
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Post by Duddahs on Apr 9, 2013 12:20:32 GMT -6
Yes, the Mourning Dove is called that as you suggest because the cooing of the dove sounds so mournful..... I happen to love and am soothed by the sound...
I have a nesting pair for years in one of my Hollies and love the whistling sound that their wings make when they a spooked and fly off..
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Post by misscharlotte on Apr 14, 2013 12:16:58 GMT -6
You would not believe this. Over this past week we have been screening in our back porch. Oh how the cats love it. Early this morning, when I opened up the door to let the cats out. I heard a LOUD hooting. I knew it was too sunny for any owls to be out that late. Then there was two of those Doves hooting at each other from trees on opposite sides of the yard. It was so cool. And I thought it was funny that they have been what we have been talking about here lately.
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Post by Duddahs on May 3, 2013 9:25:50 GMT -6
We have been having beautiful weather for the past week and each night I can hear the soft hooting of several of our park owls. One who we know is nesting in the Cupola of Field House by the newly refurbished sports fields.
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;D He held onto it all night long. 
Oh I'm so jealous!
