Mom and I dug out our birdhouses on Saturday. They’re of a much more rustic quality than the modern birdhouses featured recently. Although they’re not ultra modern, sleek and shiny, they are environmentally friendly! With the exception of one birdhouse, they were all made with reclaimed barnboard.
One was built by [...]

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Birds have been the theme lately here at 2greenthumbsup. As I write this post, I can hear all kinds of tweets and twitters, calls and bird songs. Coincidentally, my mom received an email yesterday that she forwarded to me. It contained these photographs of Abigail Alfano, also known as The Hummingbird Lady), [...]

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While some birds prefer to go the diy birdhouse route - tweaking their nests till they’re just right, most birds are more than happy to take advantage of the bird feeders or feeding stations we humans supply and set up for them.
In keeping with the modern theme started in an earlier post on modern [...]

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Spring is here and that means spring cleaning!
We have all become accustomed to using a variety of cleaners for numerous cleaning tasks around the house. They get the job done, but we know they may not be environmentally friendly. Why not try some “home-made” products that have been proven to work just as well as [...]

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Have you ever considered that maybe birds get tired of the same old barn board trend and would like to set up house in a more clean, contemporary space? I’ve come across a number of modern birdhouses that would be sure to satisfy the tastes of even the most discriminating of birds.
For [...]

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Gonna catch a big one!
I’ve got rocks on the brain. No, not rocks for brains, although I’m sure there are people out there who think that’s a distinct possibility, I’ve been thinking about rocks. More specifically, I’ve been researching and thinking about the rocks and stones I’ll need to carryout my landscape design [...]

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