DESTRUCTIVE HUMMERS

I usually try to feed the hummingbirds every spring.  This year we were at the cabin early and I put out the bright red sugar water for them.  It's hard to keep the feeders full when we aren't there full time.  I did buy a 2nd, larger feeder thinking it would keep them feed.  About a month ago while we were there, I kept hearing this really loud pecking noise.  We thought maybe it was a woodpecker, but we didn't ever see it.  Later that day we were on the lower back deck looking at the steps that handyman had been building and I looked up at our red, white & blue party lights.  This is what we saw:

Note only did they like the red ones... 

They liked the blue ones.....

 And the clear ones!

For now, the lights are still hanging, but I'm not sure if they will last long with the big holes in almost all of them.

Handyman's New Toy

Handyman recently sold his fishing boat.  It was a nice boat, ran really well, but it would only hold 2 people.  That's not good when we'd like to take others out on our boat.  So we bought a used pontoon instead.  It's rated to hold 10 people.  Last Saturday we did finally got it in the water and took a little boat ride.  The weather wasn't very good that day.  It had been raining and we had some raindrops fall on us while we were out on the water, but it was great to get out on the lake.  I'm looking forward to spending more time out on the lake just being lazy while handyman gets in some fishing.

The life jackets are all in -- 3 different kids sizes and 10 adult vests so we're all ready to go. No one will have to wear one of those uncomfortable, ugly, orange, yoke type floatation devices since we have enough vests for everyone.

Here are a few pictures of handyman's new toy.  Hope we'll have lots more later with family & friends on board!!