another great title for today's post

It's Wednesday and today will be in the 60's. Yesterday was gray, cold, and damp and today the sun is out, the birds are busier than ever and it's warming up. I truly enjoy watching the birds at our feeder, in fact I would watch all day long if I had nothing else to do. I do wish the squirrels would just go away forever. They have been getting into the bird feeder and throwing food all over the ground and hoarding it so that it goes fast. We've done a few different things to keep them away and so far for the past day and a half they've not been in the feeder. I've been watching. I would really like to get rid of the big feeder and get one that is squirrel proof but Jim likes the big feeder (it has sentimental value). If worst comes to worst I'll get a new baffle.

Ridiculous item of the week: Remember in the Friends episode when Joey did that poster for the STD? No, well he did and then he got all nervous that people would really think he had one. At the end of the episode he saw the poster and tried to tear the bottom half (with the disease) off. Unfortunately, being NYC, there were other ads from other posters under his; touting such things as drugs, abuse, etc....and his picture topped them all. Well in NYC (imagine) four male models are suing because an ad campaign for domestic violence went longer than it should have. The four men all signed up to be part of an ad campaign for domestic violence. Their pictures behind bars on a poster with the captions, "successful executive, devoted churchgoer, abusive husband." The posters were to only be up for 5 weeks in NYC subways and buses. However, the posters also ended up in police stations and charities and were up far longer than the five weeks. Friends of the models began to actually think they actually beat their wives. But tell me, was this before or after the five weeks were up? One signs up for something like this and people see the posters, what difference does it make how long they are up? Hundreds (maybe more) of people ride the NYC buses and subways each day. Isn't it possible that after the first 2 weeks people were wondering, "hmmm, I wonder if he's really a wife beater?" Now they are each suing $1 million each. Why don't they just go out and get a real job?

That's all for now. Enjoy your spring day and pray for each other.

paul