Ah! The Smell of Spring. Love Is In The Air! Hm! Propaganda Too!

You do have a reason to smile every day when just going to your back deck and watching the antics of your resident birds, squirrels and deer. Any others like possums or racoons in the evenings? Looks like it would be a great place. Isn't nature great! Thanks for sharing these pictures of your Springtime from your backyard. Lovely!!! Up and beautiful.

Voted up and funny and useful - it made me smile, I guess the bill for squirrel food will be costing more soon :) Keep up the good work those 'critters' need someone to look out for them. :)

Beautiful Hub, brotherman! Love it. Down here the weather is turning cooler by the day. Had lots of rain yesterday which hastened the cooling process. Fitful sun today. In a little while we'll be frucking feezing! But we don't get snow like you do, for which I'm grateful.

I am rather envious of those deer coming to your place. Would love to have some like that!

Thanks for sharing and I wish you lots of birds, squirrels and sunshine! Not to mention a favourable wind at your back while you ride.

Love and peace

Tony

Hi Micky....you gave me smiles....thanks. :)

...well I am glad to say that over the past year I have sent a lot of people to see your hall of fame/world class hubs of fun and enlightenment - and the 4 best words that anyone has ever said to me here at the Hub is from you (naturally) "God bless you brother"

Micky, I loved this so much, I had to come back. Just looking at the pics give me a smile, cause then I remember the words DO you see the disrespect! and I chuckle all over again. hahahaha

Tina

micky, did I tell you I have been going over to nomoretrucks? Thank you for turning him on to me . I love his hubs also

Thanks

Tina

By the way, did my favorite Hub finally gone inside your save box too?

Hello, King Micky. I love the part when the Squirrel showed you his back. There where we are different: you angry for getting butt show, but I really happy when my baby cat turned her back at me and showed her butt, where her 'seems never stop wagging' tail attached, because that is mean I can start playing caught and run with her tail. Caused her bit her own tail in her effort of biting my hands! LOL

You do always 'angry', King Micky! Unless in the sight of those who stand across your way of life. They not able to appreciating your sarcasm mostly when they think it is had been directed to them. Made they think you are angry. I won't called it as angry, but fiery seem more fitted with it.

Everything come from God: Angel and Demon, good or bad, life and death, heaven and hell, luck and bad luck, etc and etc. If we blaming God for the problem or the disaster we get inside our life, we will miss the real meaning of the event, because I believe God created light and dark simply to make us grow and mature while have to face the colliding fate between two side.

Micky, fantastic fun hub. Loved every bit. How do you get the woodpeckers to come right to you? When I go out they will not come. Then as soon as I go in they are back. Do they get used to you being there if you are out there all the time? It has been too cold to sit out for a long time.

I wish my camera could take good shots like yours. What kind do you have?

Sorry too much coffee! LOL

Tina

Mic' a great article of fun uplifting pictures and good words from you making my morning coffee with a smile. I see Nephew Pras, jumping the divide, he seems to have a giant curved sewing needle with cable for thread constantly sewing trying to pull the divide closed, with Ms.Ruby planting flowers of smiles close behind hiding the scars.

It is fantastic to get you three in one place! God Bless you Brother man, I love you, Dusty

I was wanting to make a spring comment to always exploring and to any others doing the same.

I am not a tree hugging hippy but I love nature. Please stop your use of humming bird feeders, plant natural flowers instead. Not only will the flowers attract more humming birds and other beautiful creatures, they also will not play a huge role in the destruction of this species we all love so much.

there is an ongoing study that will soon outlaw the use of hummingbird feeders and rightfully so. It is proven fact that numbers have dropped drastically in the years as use of these feeders become more and more widely used. It takes away their drive to migrate to follow the flower bloom's, not only does this cause them to stay in weather that is too cold for them, it also prevents them from mating and the pollination of not just flowers but fruit trees and many other things we all love so much. If you see a hummingbird in your area when there is no flowers around, that bird is going to die, not only that but it is not breeding. They can not survive cold weather, no matter how much sugar water you give them. Yes they are beautiful to look at, but not worth killing so you can see them when they should not be in the area. PLEASE STOP USING THEM. Plant flowers, then you have 2 beautiful things to look at with out killing one of them.

Spring is such a beautiful time of year. Your photos are wonderful and you write in such an amusing way, you always make me smile. Thanks Micky, voting up and pressing those tabs as always.

O Micky. That was wonderful. (I´m sure God does not think of you as an obedient moron) You have a huge heart . No wonder so many of us love you. Thank you for the poem, the pics AND the videos. Beautiful. Take care.x

Gret Hub, great photos. It's nice to watch little critters at work and play. I'm sure you enjoyed it more than you say.

What a lovely place you live in, Micky, with all that free entertainment from the respective wildlife. No respect, perhaps, but lots of friends/company. Till the sunflower seeds run out, that is. Thanks for the great photos. :)

Spring is always beautiful. And I liked your presentation. My uncle, you made this hub so special as usual. I also enjoy stunning pictures here. Vote....vote....vote...vote up! My pray always for you. Cheers....

Love and peace,

prasetio

just a vote of support brother. be well!

Mickey...You have the soul and wit of Yossarian...Voted up, way up and funny, as in hilarious...Larry

From reading your hubs I would say you are someone who believes in God. Which hub did the so called Christians not like?

My experience of people who judge others in how they believe in God, are not believers themselves. They just want to look good in front of others and the only way they know to make themselves look good is to criticize others.

So ignore them and carry on as you are.

You are lucky to have so many animals coming to see you. The thank you is implied. If they could talk you would hear them talking about Micky all day long.

I loved the pictures and you must live in a beautiful area as I love the animals too. What a wonderful day you had! I loved this hub. Rated up

Oh Micky, I am bookmarking this one as one of my favourite hubs. Your talent is so unique and of course everyone else thinks so too. We only have to look at all the followers to see that.

Thank you so much for sharing this gem Micky and take care.

Eiddwen.

Micky,

This was such an EXTREMELY ENJOYABLE read! Thank you for this today!

Micky you made me laugh this morning and i needed that. I'm putting out my Humming bird feeders today. I took a spin on my bike yesterday. I'm going to plant flowers today. I am happy. It's warm. What more could we want? You got your grove back, woopie.

Love and Peace

yeah well buddy, the pine pollen down here in South Carolina is killing us this time of year. LMAO

Good job and you got my up vote!

The Frog

Micky- Thanks for the laugh, great photos! I am a bit behind in reading all my favorite hubs, and am heading over to the hub you are referring to right now. God Bless

"Don't Blame God or Christ"

What a statement, when Christ Blamed God in his great time of need, as in fact did every other prophet of God. The Bible the Torah and the Qur'an are full of examples of even the greatest and most blessed men "blamed" God, I don't know of any examples of any one blaming Jesus in any of these works but yes they did "blame" God on many occasions. In fact I think to an extent God expects and even may in some cases want us to blame or question Him, so that he may show us the "light". Hey maybe that is the goal of the KKK as well, to just simply show some light.

But as you know God is sometimes to blame. Look at the story of Jonah and the Whale, it certainly was not Jonah's idea to live in a whale for a couple of days. Though, God was to blame for this certainly horrible experience, he was also to blame for the rewards in Jonah's life. Not saying all bad is from God, just simply laying out the facts as I see them from my very short years in this life interpreting them.

You know how I feel about the other stuff you covered on religion and to be honest, it is a lovely spring day here also and i would prefer not ruining it by stoking the fires in my belly for these people.

As for the animals thanks for the awesome laugh. The squirrels were great, and what a beautiful speckled woodpecker, I have one here that always eats out of the bird feeder i made, he loves it cause i cut down a cedar tree to mount it on and he is able to not only eat my sunflower seeds but also the termites from the log, as i left branches for the animals. We don't have many squirrels here where I live. But I use a nature mix for the local wild life that is like trail mix, i mean it looks good enough to eat it has peanuts, sunflower cracked and in shell, millet, grain sorghum, oats, raisins, and corn. Kind of pricey but it attracts all kinds of wildlife.

As always I have enjoyed this hub, thanks Micky you know how to make me smile, and I do enjoy that in a friend.

Micky I hear you loud in clear, one day is great then ops something comes along a pull that old rug from under your feet, I am here if as always to say, you are awesome and a great friend. Not to mention a fantastic writer and poet, love this hub, rate you up up love &peace darski

up up and up all the way. all things to all people. and animal friends also. yes, still hanging in there, Have a wonderful spring Luv. hugz

Please excuse me for misspelling your name, my brain does not connect to my fingers some times and even when I think I know what I've typed it comes out wrong.

Mickey, if you ever do decide to ride RAGBRAI. give me a shout and I'll be there with some cool water and a handshake. I would ride along with you for awhile, well I would if I could ... really. But cheering you on would be my honor in any forum or bike ride for that matter. Iowa is my place of residence and I will say the riders are treated very well and most welcome.

Just a couple of things ab't that other hub: KKK claim to "light" the cross, a positive thing in their eyes,not burn or destroy. Just saying.

You really don't know for sure who is who. Maybe that person who tried to hit you WAS a Muslim, we really don't know the truth about where people's hearts really are. Major problem w/ Christianity is that even they don't know what true Christlike living is or what they are supposed to do to know God. We have so many diversions in daily life and divisions in the churchs, it takes time to find the truth and most won't give it any effort. That's why you've been taunted by Christians because they really aren't labeled correctly. Even Satan himself once was an angel and therefore knows how to make himself appear as an angel of God. We shall know them by their fruits. Actions speak louder than words, huh? Great hubs, Michael. There is one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ. Everyone has their path and their time to know. It can be different from the next person.

I love your sense of humor, always have. I have a problem with people taking me so seriously all the time, makes it hard to joke when you have to tell someone it's a joke! I'm serious about most things, as you are, most things folks like to ignore. But taking it all in stride, because we read the ending of the book. Now I need to go back and read that post that upset the Christians! Then I'll comment again.

Humoring nature is as close to a blessing as one can get,thanks Micky.;)

Those little Dickens! Really! But ya gotta love creatures without one care in the world. They do reward us with their antics which shows God has a sense of humor when we see those playful creatures entertaining us. Great spring hub. BTW, NY is supposed to get 5 inches of snow tomorrow, so much for spring right now.

great hub Micky, you had me laughing at those little buggers.That's all they ever want from us, food, food, food from us.

God Bless

Micky, you rock! This was so funny, but lay off the espresso a little bit...squirrels are cool, but that woodpecker, that's a different story.

voted up/funny

God has blessed you with such a hugee sense of humor.. I'm sure even He will be laughing reading this article from the heavens above.. A message well delivered as always.. Personally I would like to meet the person who said you are angry all the time.. Don't listen to the Bullshit of others, they're plain jealous...

Take care