Actually, it is 5:00 PM, Monday, February, 13th.  I wanted this to follow Burr-r-r-r it’s cold!!  ~~  I shopped three Thrift Shops today (after my trip to the chiropractor).  Here are the purchases that were quite inexpensive (compared to my previous retail-store purchases).  What a stroke of good fortune to find the wreath of straw.  I anticipate the birds will take straw for a nest.  Several more woven-wood baskets.  A new “top” for one old wrought-iron post.  (You’ll see it in use, in the near future.)  A small butterfly house that may never house a butterfly.  That one was one-tenth the cost of similar houses at bird supply retail stores.  The scarecrow is so cute; I couldn’t resist him!!  ~~  Do you think I’m entitled to say: “If I supply it, they (birds & butterflies) will come”??  Time will tell!!

Postscript, 6:00 PM: The sun is down but there is still some daylight.  There are–without exaggeration–over fifty birds on the feeders and scratching for seed in the grass.  I throw bird seed in the yard early each morning and hope the birds have found  all… before evening.  The squirrels, raccoons and possum search, too, and (frankly) I want to ration the furry critters.