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Oh the mighty little egg. Are you good for me or bad for me? I don't know and I don't care. You're delicious and versatile. You will always be welcome in my home. Our egg week consisted of omelettes, Portuguese eggs, deviled eggs with mushrooms and of course poached eggs with hollandaise on toast. I am of course sorry to say, I completely forgot to take pictures but in my defense, we didn't get to sit down to lunch. We had several plates of goodness eating as dishes were prepared.  I think the favorite dish we made was the Portuguese eggs. Onions and red peppers (or orange and yellow whatever color you have on had) are sauted in some oil for about 20 minutes until fairly soft. Next, you add some spices. We used oregano, basil, paprika and garlic and 2 diced tomatoes with some tomato paste and you can add some jalapeno or chili flakes for heat. You can always use canned tomatoes too. Then we spread the mixture into a glass baking dish and made wells in the pe...

I noticed the male bluebird getting more aggressive towards other birds over the course of a few days. There's a small bird feeder right behind the bird house in another yard that sparrows and other's visit. The male bluebird has been dive bombing the birds at the feeder trying to make them go away. On Friday, April 14, when I was putting out more worms, I noticed the female was watching me from the birdhouse. When I got close, she of course flew away and I decided to check out the nest. I got my little point and shoot camera out and tried to get it into the bird house since it's above my head. I took a few pictures and discovered there are 3 little blue eggs in the nest. I took a picture of the nest each morning when I put more worms in their feeder and I was happy to see 4 eggs then finally 5 eggs by April 17. Unfortunately, on the morning of April 18, their were zero eggs in the nest. I found evidence of 3 eggs broken on the ground under the nest box. There w...