Merry Christmas....

On tractor joe's side of the family, they do a name exchange. He drew his sister-in-law. She wanted a squirrel proof bird feeder like the one tractor joe has. He had bought it in Tennessee. 

Even though he had been back to Tennessee several times, he was never in the able to find that bird feeder again. 

So....

On our "Saturday before Christmas" shopping trip he found a squirrel proof feeder in the clearance section. 

WOW, what a deal!!

And he bought it...

Tractor joe spends a lot of time reading reviews on products before he buys anything.

He didn't read any on this feeder until we had it here at home.

One review had the information needed to make it a REALLY and TRULY squirrel proof.

Some were reassuring that this was a good feeder.

And some just cracked me up. 

That is when I decided to make a little book to go with the feeder. 

I dug out an old Bird and Bloom magazine, stickers, and used the actual packaging material from the bird feeder.

It was ripped and falling apart.

Those headless birds were really in my stash. Years ago my nephew had been making strange animals by mixing and matching heads with bodies. A normal person would have thrown headless birds away....but no, there they were, ready to use in this project!

Tractor joe thinks she will enjoy the bird feeder, even if it is nothing like his, and the book!