Birds and burgers anyone?

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

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INDIGO BUNTINGS
at our backyard feeder

WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE

[Joyce has these questions for us this week. If you'd like to participate, see meme links on my right sidebar]

1. This week's Hodgepodge is Volume 123. What's something you've done recently that was as easy as 1-2-3? Does eating count as 'doing something'? I'm pretty good at that and it's such an easy task; I excel in fact.

2. The Wednesday Hodgepodge also happens to fall on the first day of May ...what is something you may do this month? It's not a 'may do' but 'a given'. Bud and I will celebrate 45 years of marriage on May 11th.

3. The Englishman Horace Walpole is credited as saying, "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think" How do you see it? When it comes to the world as a whole and my personal vision of it all, most definitely I do not look through rose colored glasses!! The world [politically mostly, and greed] is a tragedy. Therefore, I don't think. Hence, no comedy.

4. May is National Hamburger Month...how often do you eat a burger? What are your must-haves when it comes to burgers? I assume you vegetarians won't be celebrating so tell us what you'd like instead? I love burgers. In fact most often when asked what my favorite food is I reply "Cheeseburger"!! Smashburger in Houston. But we don't have that franchise here, so Five Guys Burgers [and their fried in peanut oil, french fries!]----I like mine fixed so many different ways tho. The most common choice is with Cheese, extra pickle, mustard and chopped onion. But there are two other 'favorite ways' --Mexican Buger -which I posted about long ago; here [cheddar cheese, chopped lettuce, diced tomatoes, hot sauce (it must be Clint's HOT), guacamole, and a dollop of sour cream, and sliced jalapeno peppers]. In the photo I posted with the older version, shared again today... yes, there is a burger under all that topping, trust me. In my opinion, it's a meal all by its lonesome! And then, another favorite way is the Stroganoff Burger [topped with melted swiss cheese, sauteed mushrooms and onion, mushroom gravy, and sour cream]. See? Eating...Easy as one-two-three.

5. Pansies, petunias, geraniums, impatiens...of the four mentioned, which is your favorite in a patio pot? Will there be pots on your patio this spring? (Or whenever spring comes to your part of the globe?) Who does the gardening at your house? I love 'em all. But if having to choose of the four mentioned, I would have to go with impatiens. In this climate, pansies, petunias and geraniums do not do well in extreme heat and full sun. Our patio is NOT covered by choice so I can star-gaze. And our yard is flowers grass and flowering bushes, so the patio is decorated with rock and wood benches. ONE patio pot has a rose bush [in the photo posted], and a circular decorative stone and rock --with central birdbath that has small pots of cactus that bloom a beautiful hot pink---they're there all year long. Who does the gardening? It's a 50/50 job of work here in the Garden of Anni. I do the edging while Bud does the tree trimming and bush trimming with ladder and electric trimmer, I use the hand clippers to cut off the withered blossoms on bushes... we both get down on our hands and knees to pull weeds, and mowing lawn?---Bud does the front, I do the back yard.

6. When did you last (literally or figuratively) shout "Mayday, Mayday!" I don't think I've ever said this phrase unless I'm quoting a movie line. My preferred wording would be "If you want dinner tonight, HELP"!!!

7. Say farewell to your April in ten words or less. Birding every day, migration is nearly over --Come what "MAY"!!

8. Insert your own random thought here. I loved it!! We had a rainstorm. Yes, a storm!! Thunder, heavy rain for a while before sunset [around 7 pm] --and it lulled me to sleep. What a delight. It rained off and on all night and into the wee hours of the morning. I know darned well, the drought isn't even close to being over, but at least a storm system found its way this far south. Too bad I wasn't out on the freeway tho, I coulda had the car go through the 'power wash'...LOL Oh, and another thought came to my mind...I'm still working on my newest watercolor painting. Coming along nicely tho.