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Mockingbird needs grease

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2/7/10 at 7:44am
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 DH and I kept hearing a squeaking wheel and each of us spent some time checking to see what was making the noise.  We finally tracked it down to a mockingbird. It sounded just like my DSis ornamental windmill...until DH greased it.
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2/7/10 at 9:36am
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  Did you grease the bird, Linda?
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2/7/10 at 11:57am
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Originally Posted by Blue Belle View Post

  Did you grease the bird, Linda?

What kind of grease did you use Emu Oil

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

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2/7/10 at 3:52pm
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lol That's funny.  I've never heard them do a squeak noise.  Maybe he was mocking the windmill.
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2/7/10 at 6:31pm
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It was funny. The first time I heard him I checked my windmills and they were fine. Later I walked next door to visit my sis and heard hers squeaking. DH put some grease on it and we thought that was it. Then I heard it again and tracked it down to the bird.....but thought I had to be mistaken. Finally asked DH if he had heard it and he laughed and said he had, but not before he checked the windmill again.
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2/7/10 at 10:43pm
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@ mla
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

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2/7/10 at 10:56pm
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I like that
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2/8/10 at 11:25am
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 Great story!
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2/8/10 at 1:49pm
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  How cute! 
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

Natalie - Zone 5

 
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#10
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2/9/10 at 8:22am
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  Hee hee hee!  Great story!
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2/11/10 at 6:29am
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reminds me of recently watching the movie "Failure to Launch" , where the one girl was kept constantly awake by a noisy mockingbird just outside her window, which she wanted to kill, and upon having a new beau had him shoot it with an air rifle or whatever, feels guilty and makes him resuscitate it!

"A Rose by any other name...is still a "thorny" issue".

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