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Gramma Krackers
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I love when flowers
go to seed
and chickadees
come to feed
and there’s no need
to deadhead,
nor to weed.
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© 2012, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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(re-post… a Gramma Krackers poem)
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I love this little ditty 🌹🌹
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Thanks Willow! 🍁😁🍁
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Me too…a perfect rhyme for autumn! (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe. 🍁🏵️
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I can tell Gramma Krackers has personality plus! Like your Fall poem.
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Thanks Renee, she’s my alter ego. 😉 Has her own blog (grammakrackers.wordpress.com) but hasn’t been active there in awhile. Pure silliness. 😍
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Silliness is good once in awhile. I need to be that way more often. 😉
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I agree my sister! Hugs and blessings!
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Many thanks, Wendell!
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Thank you!
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Short & sweet. Love it.
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Thank you very much!
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Fall does have its advantages. 🙂
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Yep, we have a good excuse to stay inside and write more poetry. 😉
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Glad to see you around again, Ms K. 🙂
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She says thank you, Ben. 😘 (I was on her site last night. Really want to get it going again … just need a little more time in the day!)
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If I had some to spare you know I’d gladly … That way all three of us would surely benefit. 🙂
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Me ears are burnin’!
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That’s likely the red hair.
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Nahh, Uncle Yoda mistook them for waffles and tried to toast ’em.
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I imagine that must have been a hair-braising experience.
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Yep, gotta watch yer back around here! And yer ears.
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Yaaay, doing a happy clappy dance with this rhyme, ditto Gramma Crackers! 🙂
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So glad you enjoyed! (I’m hoping to get Gramma Krackers’ blog active again soon. 🙂 )
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Is there a link to it off Seasonings?
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Yes, on my “about” page. Or try this:
http://grammakrackers.wordpress.com. Thanks for your interest! 🙂
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What a delightful ditty. In Britain we call birds from this family ‘tits’, would you believe. Many people leave out food for them in their gardens which I believe is a habit more common here than elsewhere. But letting nature do it for free is best of all, of course. It’s such fun to watch them dangling to get the seeds.
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So glad you liked this! We do have a small bird here called a “bush tit” but didn’t know it was in the same family as the chickadee. Interesting! We too put out bird feeders (raised high from the ground) in the winter. Summertime they do well foraging in nature, which is best, as you said. I too love watching them feed every which way to reach the seeds. 🙂
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In the days when milk was delivered to the door, blue tits learned to strip the metal foil of the bottle lids to get at the cream on top!
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Smart birds!! They’re more intelligent than we give them credit for. (Have you seen the documentaries on crows?)
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I seen plenty of footage of corvids on YouTube. Intelligent creatures have always interested me. I read once that when Ravens are captured and kept as pets, they very quickly adapt to their new environment and start to explore it in fascination. Not that I would ever advocate taking creatures from the wild on principle. But it does indicate that, like us, they enjoy novelty and stimulation and probably even intuit that they are being ‘looked after’ and that their life expectancy has increased.
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Intelligence in birds and animals has always fascinated me too. And I agree on all counts. A friend of mine had a dozen parrots (and other birds) – all rescued from bad situations – and she told me the most interesting stories about their different personalities, interactions, and their very intelligent behavior. They formed a little community and demonstrated love and affection for her and her husband.
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Yes, parrots are amazing. I remember footage on TV of a parrot that had learned to sew! On YouTube, under Alex the Parrot, the first thing that comes up is a woman on stage interviewing Alex. It has to be seen to be believed.
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Amazing! I’ll definitely look for that on YouTube.
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This is a great Welcome to Autumn poem! Every good reason for enjoying fall in a few astute lines. Love the little troll giggling away in the basket.
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Thank you again, Sharon. Glad you liked Gramma Krackers. (She’s my goofy alter ego. 😉 )
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I like it and the rhymes are so beautiful!
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Thank you very much, D!
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enjoyed this fun piece ❤
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Thank you! 😊 (Sorry to be slow replying – I missed this comment somehow.)
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No problem 🙂
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What a cute little flower commentary. :D. Yes, by this time of the year, I’m a bit tired of babying them also.
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Thank you, Lana, glad you could relate! 🙂
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Love this. HA!! We have no ‘off-season’ here, however I do remember 34 falls and winters on the east coast … ❤
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Hard to imagine living in a place with no seasons. But the older I get the more I’d like for summer to last forever. (Well, maybe just a few weeks of fall/winter now and then – I do love snow! 😉)
Thank you, Bela. 🥀💕
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Yes, I still love the *idea* of snow, but my bones say differently 😉
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I hear you! 😆
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Must be fall!
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Indeed!
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cute poem. I like leaving the seed pods too, for the birds.
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Thank you! And yes, nature needs all the help we can give it these days. 🙂
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