I like the cardinals and blue jays. I LOVE hummingbirds.

Oh! Yes to all three! Though, I know bluejays are kinda asshats to other birds. But they're so pretty!

We get ruby throated hummingbirds and that's it here. But they're super cute and we have a little feeder for them so I see them zooming about all spring and summer.

Oh cardinals are amazing. I only really see them here when we've a big snow storm at the feeder. Then they're there all day long.

I liked when in the mountain in NM (not santa fe), there are so many hummingbirds. All sorts of colors and really, so many in one spot. They're so beautiful! I really am a hummingbird fan. >.>

I used to have a book on hummingbirds when I was a little girly. So I was always jealous that we didn't have more than the one. It made me able to recognize all the different ones I saw when I was out in California though.

I haven't read up on anything like that. Must be cool.

I read lots of odd books as a kid. They ranged from like....nature books to mythology. I could tell you the range of various birds or who Zeus was shacking up with.

how do you remember that stuff though? I also read all sorts of things when I was young, but I can't remember that far back.

I don't know. Mind like a steel trap about somethings. I recall poems I had to memorize in 1st and 2nd grade.

I remember the poems and speeches I had to memorized in junior high and high school a lot of the time. But poetry doesn't count. It has rhythm that makes it stick around in the head more than other things.

Some bits and pieces of poems are stuck in my head...
But I have to make up parts of them.
lol...

it's so fun to make up parts! I do that a lot with The Raven. I tend to mix together different verses into one when I can't remember stuff.

Lol. I won't make up lines cause otherwise I'd believe them to be the real lines. I'd rather go...."something la dee da da" till I remember lines afterward. lol

We didn't have to memorize much in middle school. Mostly before from first-fifth....then random moment in high school and college. But the stuff for plays, I don't remember any of my lines. Probably because that was memorized under pressure or something. XD

Well...I no longer know what's right and what's not anymore. I don't mess up on purpose but sometimes my way sounds better.

I memorized a lot of stuff in the end. I only know of one poem/saying I learned in elementary school.

Like. I've got MOST of 'The Night Before Christmas' from 3rd or 4th grade...but I forget a bit in the middle.....

Yah. I've been teased for mishearing song lyrics and thinking that's how they are......for most of my life.

What poem?

I know the first two lines of it. >.>

Me too!!!

I'm not sure anymore.

We're misheard lyric twins! lol

I can quote up to when the reindeer fly to the roof and land on it. Then things get fuzzy for a while, and I pick it up again.

How does it go?

Do they make kids memorize stuff anymore?

I dunno woody

and jean too. Seems education is changing a lot and I don't think for the better.

Well, one change is stuff like history.
I don't think they make you memorize dates and stuff anymore, which is good.

I mean, who CARES what year the American Revolution was.
Just google it if you need to know!

they make you memorize dates all the time. That's what history class was for me in high school. It's why I didn't do good at it. I think date memorization is pretty much the only thing that history class is.

That's too bad.

I like history stuff now. But the old history books make everything so BORING.
There are some GREAT historical stories out there.

I only like history outside of school. Kinda...my dad is soooo into history though that I'm sick and bored of it.

I guess the older you get, the more interested in history you are, because you've been more a part of it!

I just read a story about how we baby boomers have changed the world...

everyone has changed the world somehow. Every generation. It ain't just the baby boomers. Of course the world was changed; I think I also know how. A teacher talked about it once.

I've always loved history! Well. I taught myself things cause it was boring the way they present it in school till you're a bit older truth be told.

And the Revolution started in 1775 I think. That's an easy year. Granted things were rolling before that in the 60s with taxation issues and then two or three years before any official fighting was the Boston Tea party.


But my thing isn't really American history.