My Favorite Garage Sale Find

Last weekend I went garage sale shopping and found some great stuff for Trade Days next weekend. While I was browsing (ha ha) should say frenzy feeding, I saw this plain looking book on a table for .75 cents.



I flipped it open and this was the first page I saw. It was love at first sight for me. I snatched that book up fast and have already spent hours looking at it. I love birds and the drawings are beautiful. The book was published in 1961 and I consider it one of my new treasures!



These are coastal birds that I see every day and they really are beautiful, if not messy when flying over my boat or over the dock.



Just wanted to show some different pictures. The book is full of beautiful colorful pictures of birds around the world. Oh yea it is pretty interesting reading also.

Our Baby Sperm Whale

This baby sperm whale washed ashore just down from our house. We went down the beach to see it and hoped it would make it's way back to sea. I am sorry to say there was no happy ending. We were all told that it was dead but now we see they had to kill it because it was in pain and distressed. I think it was struggling pretty hard to get back to it's mommy but I guess it was just to sick. I added the local news account and some photos I took.

Beached whale euthanized in Corpus Christi SOURCE:

Corpus Christi Caller-Times Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 8:42 a.m. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS (AP) -- A 30-foot-long sperm whale weighing more than eight tons was euthanized after stranding itself in shallow surf along the Texas coast. The whale washed up about 40 feet from the shore Tuesday on Mustang Island. Onlookers watched it thrash about before a veterinarian gave the whale two doses of tranquilizers, enough to knock out two or three elephants. A necropsy to see why the whale was sick was scheduled for Wednesday, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported. Police say a wrecker service that volunteered to pull the whale from the water likely saved $9,000. Lea Walker, a regional director with the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, says the whale was too massive to transport or hold in a tank to rehabilitate. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)