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Red dye has long been suspected as being harmful to hummingbirds, but since hummingbirds are wild creatures and don't have regular checkups, it is a hard thing to prove. Most hummingbird experts say red dye is a bad thing to use, most food manufacturers say it's fine. Who do you believe? It is always hard to believe the one making the most money.

One shameless company even sells hummingbird food with the "taste and aroma of strawberry." Hummingbirds have little or no sense of smell, and your Aunt Dodie with her skin-tight leopard pants, has more "taste" than hummingbirds do. All that strawberry is for attracting customers and could be doing hummers more harm than good.

But even if the red dye was fine for birds, it isn't necessary. Plant nectar is colorless. The color that attracts hummers is in the flower or the feeder. And most feeders have plenty of red on them already. Also, the food in hummingbird feeders can become full of insects or become cloudy and gross. Red dye would hide all the grossness and you wouldn't realize that your food had gone bad.

So, keep your food clean and clear and save the red dye for the important things in life, like pistachios, M&M's and those cherries that you put in your Shirley Temple.

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Well we seem to be fighting some kind of Bug! My kids act like they have strep throat,but I feel like I have a lung infection. I will be taking them to the doctor tommorrow and I just went to the doctor to weigh in so I really don't want to have to go back this soon. I guess if I am not better soon,within the next day or two I will have to go back. Right now none of us feel like doing anything. I have new mattresses to buy and so many things I need to do,but I just don't feel like doing it.  I just hope we can get better soon so I can get the things we need. We are also having such a mouse problem that I am going to have to get someone to come in and get rid of the little pest! They keep eating my socks and just anything they can there mouth on. Not to mention that they have the worst odor and I am so tired of trying to kill them myself. We have put traps down and killed around seven,then we put some poison out and they seemed to thin out a little but there are still so many. I don't even know the first person to call but I have seen on TV that Orken is good. I guess we will see. Well my head is getting so much worst right now. I think I need some pain medicine. I hope you all have a great day today!

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I have had such a long day today! For some reason I just did not get any sleep last night and to save my life I don't know why. My body is hurting like I have been in a wreck or somthing! I still have a full sink of durty dishes! I was sapposed to get to them yesterday,but things just did not work out that way. I did spend alot of time on here yesterday. I really miss blogging when I don't do it every day. I want to start  a homebased business on the net of some kind and I just don't know what it would be. There are so many people doing things on the net and making a living at it too! I just wished I knew what I could get into. I have so many homeschool books that I could probably start a used homeschool book business. Who knows, if it is to be, I am sure it will show up.

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Well I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!I have been sick Every since Dec4 due to my Dental surgery. I am feeling better finally and I am making my New Years Resolutions:

I am going to be a better homeschool mom and mother and wife. I am going to try to learn to choose my words more sensably when talking to people. I will spend more time on my blog and here with you friends for sapport and to be sapportive also.

We did have a great Christmas and New Year and I hope you all did too. I need to consentrate more on becomming more organized,and making more time for just me as mommy time, just to vent or just to have that time that everyone needs. If it is no more than five minutes out of every day just to find myself and be with God. I do need to find more time for him and myself and I will train my kids to become more independent, and not think they need Mommy to do everything. I don't really know where to start this task,but maybe some of you all can help me with this.

I was raised in a very Christian home and was adpoted by my GrandMother and more or less came home from the hospital strait to her! My bialogical mother I have always know as my sister! My mother is my mom(My Grand Mother)

My family have always had alot of problems starting with my dad,which was one of the biggest alchoholics in the world. My mother is one of these people that I call Angel's on Earth! My dad used to beat her when he became real drunk and I at six years old one day had to hit my dad in the stomack to keep him from killing my mom with a black cast iron skilet!(I still have this skilit to this day) He would get so drunk he would shoot at us while we where walking in the pasture behind the house. There are just to many times that I can remember and not even enough room to tell you,but my mother still stayed with him for 50 years. They got the news from his drinking so much that he had colon cancer and parkenson disease! He did at 68 in our house with my mom taking care of him. She would feed him,bath him, and clothe him. We all wondered how she kept up with a 10 acre garden and my brother and I. Of course at this time we where in our early 20s. But still we where going through our own problems. My father never got to see either one of my children be born. I do wish he could have!

What I am trying to say is my Mother (81) now and still kicking is my "Angel On Earth"!

This is my hope is to become more like my MOM. Sometimes I think,What are you crying for when my mother would take the same problem and laugh at it and just go on. She always tells me to take one day at a time and as long as God is in my heart,everything will work out. You know what? She has always been right.

God has protected her through out her life and still is. In fact over the New Year she fell once again, right on her forehead and busted it open(not as bad as when she fell and broke her hip or the time she split her liver compleatly in half) got her to the hospital and the doctor said it looked like a scare and not a freshly busted open cut! I have never seen anything like it in my life,but there is God holding her in his hands protecting her once again! I am so thankful for her,My Angel On Earth!

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I have been so busy with Christmas and going to the doctor and trying to get over my Dental Surgery that I have not had time to post anything up here.

Well first I am feeling so much better and finally getting over my Dental surgery. I have never gone through anything like this in my life and I wish I never had to again,but unfortantly the doctor sais I am going to have to have dentures. I truely dread this.

Anyway on to other things. I had to go to my diet doctor today and I was sure I had gained back the 15 pounds I had lost due to not being able to get on the treadmill due to my surgery. Well good news, I had lost one more pound! Thank you Lord! My fat mass was up 2 pounts but my muscle mass was up 3 pounts. How Cool!

I am trying to get all the Christmas Shopping done but that is not to easy when you feel so bad. I think I am getting things done though.

Julian my husband informed me we have to go to a company Christmas party on Friday night and we are also in charge of having to get his boss a Christmas present. WOW! Do you really know what that means? That means I am responsable for this. How fun,its not like I even know his boss or what to get him.

So that is what is going on with me these days and the kids I have already told them we will not homeschool till next year. They seem to be really happy with that,not realizing it is only13 days away. HeHe!

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