Woodpecker Would Not Give It Up
Woodpecker Wouldn't Give Up
Yesterday morning a woodpecker woke me up pecking on the big cedar tree right outside my condo. It had been a long time since I’ve heard a woodpecker—not many are interested in the palm trees in South Texas. I remember when I was a kid, when we would have a woodpecker in our yard, and we had a lot in the piney woods of East Texas, my dad would say, “the woodpecker pecked on daddy’s leg because daddy had a wooden leg.” Who knows where he got that? Of course, my daddy didn’t have a wooden leg, but he had a lot of funny lines that I fondly remember.
This one woodpecker just wouldn’t give it up, so I finally drug myself out of bed, although I was cold and not really ready to crawl out from under the warm covers. When I looked at the thermometer, I knew why—it was 16 degrees. What is a woodpecker doing out in this weather?? Where is Al Gore these days? I turned on the news, and it is cold everywhere, even in the Deep South. Surprisingly, in South Texas, the forecasters are predicting near freezing temperatures. Crazy. Just think what it would be like if we were not in global warming!!!
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Goes to prove that you can’t believe all you hear from the news media. Did you see that idiot last night that attacked Sarah Palin? Read her book and you will know he was just retaliating because he was one of the idiots that mishandled her. Send that woodpecker after him!!
Back in 1952 when I was in Lon Morris College in Jacksonville, attempts to save a large oak were being attempted by nailing a piece of roofing tin over a split in the large tree’s trunk. There were some holes left over from previous nailings, and a woodpecker kept trying to drill his way into the tin, thinking it had been drilled before by another bird. Try concentrating on History with that going on outside your window.
Lots of weird stuff happened in the last century.
Well, the woodpeckers on the lake just peck on the transformers on the telephone poles. Now that is loud. Besides Cindy it was probably time to arise and you needed to be out of bed.
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