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@AnnetteTRemain @QueenOfEverything
Go to any garden store and you can usually pick one up separate from the big planter it's meant to go under.
You're welcome! I would love to have one of those Bird Buddy setups, but it's not in the budget. But the animals don't seem to mind. We get cardinals, sparrows, titmice, an occasional Jay. And mischievous squirrels. 🐿
Here's Sadie today. The rains left the feeder looking a little messy, but she doesn't seem to care. I drilled drainage holes into the pan, but the pounding rain overwhelmed it
Hi! I'm sorry if it seemed I was ignoring this question- I just saw it while looking for something else.
It's really very simple. The feeder is the drainage pan from a largish planter. I put various small dishes in it depending on what I'm feeding them. The camera is a Blink (usually on sale on Prime Day) and it's all sitting on shelf of a small wire rack out of reach of the dogs.
We get birds and squirrels.
Well, I dunno. It all looks much different from the outside and more complex on the inside. Catholicism is not just a religion in some places, it's a culture with rich tradition.
You left it. I left it. But a lot of genuinely good people stay.
They can't help the urges. I have genuine sympathy for that. but they must be required to get whatever help they need to not act on them or be confined for life. And the traffickers who profit off them should be one and done and jailed.
The answer most would come to is "not MY priest. He's not one of the bad ones"
Those priests should be in jail, not church. And charges should be filed against church officials who knew what they had done and hadn't reported it.
I was talking about the congregation.
The thing is people are taught good/bad when we're very young. The lessons come from people we instinctively trust and we aren't yet mature enough to evaluate them.
By the time a person is grown, that sense of right/wrong is baked in and the best likelihood of healthy acceptance of some of it and rejection of others is if a tendency for independent thought has also been baked in. Nobody consciously decides to be hypocritical. Inconsistencies are brushed off as "God's will'
@MidnightRider @Idissent @OldDude71
I was raised Catholic in a big Catholic family ensconced in a big Catholic neighborhood of a big city that was loaded with Catholics.
I left the Church long ago, but my firm conviction is that Catholics are *not* bad people, but they are led by a Church hierarchy that is.
@Idissent @MidnightRider @OldDude71
Catholics were a large reliably Democratic crowd for many years. But they and some others were vehemently anti-abortion and when Roe was decided, it gave the GOP something to campaign on
They're not pro-life. That's just a campaign buzz word. They're pro-power (for themselves).
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Your buddies are right about the difficulty in quitting an addiction, but mistaken about the result. After decades as a smoker, I quit 18 years ago. I don't miss it. My husband quit, too, as did some friends.
OK then, Wonder Woman. 😃
Dang, woman, when you take a fall, you take a hard one!
1-2 years? Yikes!
Ah. OK.
I use them because they did me a solid when times were rough and they didn't have to.
I hope you find it somewhere. 👍
Was it me?
I tried to write you a note about something you posted.
If it was me, never mind- I was half asleep.
If it wasn't, good! 🤪😂