{"id":1686,"date":"2009-02-08T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2009-02-08T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T20:18:59","slug":"a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"A festival at the bird bath; Izzy gets fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is really a festival of birds going on outside my office window at the bird bath.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can&#8217;t identify what everyone is, but there is a pair of cardinals, who are regular visitors, and a big red topped woodpecker.\u00a0 There are two little finchy looking birds and one darkish brown with an orange underbelly bird that I wondered if he was a robin.\u00a0 They take turns having baths, each watching out for the other.\u00a0 Lke <em>Rev. Michael Beckwith<\/em> says, &#8220;taking care of each other&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I walked through the Mt. Dora Art Festival yesterday, I love being outside when the air is cool and the sun is shining.\u00a0 I like to especially look at the paintings and am always seeking new cover art.<\/p>\n<p>It feels weird to work on a Sunday.\u00a0 I mean, being self employed, I work some every day but very seldom all day long on a Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 My family likes to have the house to themselves all day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1687\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/izzy-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1687\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1687\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/izzy-cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now fired: IZZY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But on a Sunday I can sneak outside every few hours and bask in the sunlight and sweep off the driveway and water the plants and rake up the bamboo leaf deadfall.\u00a0 I can go hunt the kitties down and see where they are hanging out this bright sunny day.\u00a0 I surprised Izzy by walking right up on him as he lay basking in a sunny spot on one of the trails.\u00a0 He jumped up startled with his fur all rumpled and his sleepy face on.\u00a0 I thought cats were supposed to hear us coming from a long ways away?\u00a0 Sheesh, Izzy is fired from neighborhood watch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=A festival at the bird bath; Izzy gets fired&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=A%20festival%20at%20the%20bird%20bath;%20Izzy%20gets%20fired&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-festival-at-the-bird-bath-izzy-gets-fired\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is really a festival of birds going on outside my office window at the bird bath.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can&#8217;t identify what everyone is, but there is a pair of cardinals, who are regular visitors, and a big red topped woodpecker.\u00a0 There are two little finchy looking birds and one darkish brown with an orange underbelly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}