{"id":319,"date":"2006-06-04T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-11-26T07:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T07:52:46","slug":"i-dont-think-they-qualify-for-a-home-depot-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t think they qualify for a Home Depot account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really glad I take my camera with me nearly everywhere I go. One of the more opportune moments was this weekend at Home Depot. The garden section, which is sheltered but outdoors, is home to lots of little brown birdies. I found one of these little guys checking out a shiny new home\/feeder:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/home_depot_birdies1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s carrying $24.99 plus tax, though! That&#8217;s okay, he and his little friends have a pretty nice place staked out for themselves even without a fancy cedar feeder (say that three times fast!).<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/home_depot_birdies2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>These little birdies make their nests in the bottom of the pallets on which much of the merchandise is shipped and stored. At one point I saw three little fledgelings poking their heads out of one of the pallets&#8230; unfortunately I didn&#8217;t have the camera ready at that point.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/home_depot_birdies3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>This flock also has some readily available chow if they&#8217;re willing to put up with the nuisance of customers, one of them with a camera. I don&#8217;t think they pick the bags at all; they don&#8217;t have to with the loose seed that falls on the floor near the shelves where the bags of seed are stored.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the employees in this area if the constant tweeting got on their nerves, and they said that it didn&#8217;t. In fact, they get used to the ambient tweets and don&#8217;t even hear them now. That&#8217;s just how it is around my house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really glad I take my camera with me nearly everywhere I go. One of the more opportune moments was this weekend at Home Depot. The garden section, which is sheltered but outdoors, is home to lots of little brown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}