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At 11:11 AM 10/17/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Marjorie-- sorry about the fall, but the story was delightful! >We have taken down our hummingbird feeder, and put up a regular bird feeder >( hmmm--are hummers (regular??) but so far no takers. As we are new and >there hasn't been a house or feeder in this spot it may take them a while >to find it. >The friend who gave it to us says she hates blue jays because they eat the >babies of other birds---don't know about baby squirrels---- but keep an eye >on them! Thanks Camilla, Now, thanks to Joan Hartman, I have ordered a Squirrel Snack Box and some special Squirrel food from a place in Texas. I have always just fed them peanuts because the wild bird seed we feed has sunflower seeds and all kinds of other seeds in it already. The problem I'm having now, is buying it and getting it into the house. I'm known as the Bird Seed Lady at our local grocery store. I buy thirty pounds of bird seed at a time, and I can't pick it up of course. There is always someone to help though, and I pay the neighbor boy a small tip to carry it into the house for me, so it all works out. I have always had a problem with those plastic produce bags, I can't get them open. Today when I went to the store the woman at the Customer Service Desk stopped me when I came in and gave me a package from the produce manager. He started his vacation this week and he had found out from another customer that those thumb stalls work opening those bags. He had bought two of them for me, and wanted to make certain I received them while he was gone, so he gave them to the lady at Customer Service. Now, how is THAT for customer service??? Maryse, I guess you'd say it was the survival of the fittest? Guess what? All the birds in the air, all the critters on the ground are all more fit than I am unfortunately, but I'm working on it!!! just me, Marjorie