I spent about $3.50 last week to buy all I would need to help our little Sunday school class make birdfeeders. I had extra leftover so we made four for our own little tree. Oh, you know, I've never told you about our only tree.

It's an Elm and is about three years old. Right now its leaves are dry with brown specks. (I hope its not sick.) We have no tree around our home except for our little Elm. Its near a big field behind our house. I have always wanted to plant some trees around and watch them grow as my children do but never did it.

Our tree is not around any other trees. I always tell people God was kind and planted it for us. Its in direct view of my bedroom window that I look out alot. Its near a fence post so I figure some bird ate an Elm seed and then decided to perch on the fencepost. Needless to say, it got fertilized and then planted in some soft soil and some rain came to nurture it. I've looked at it probably every other day since it looked like a tall weed.

Everyone hung their own on the tree. There was a small competition to see who could get theirs the highest. Impromptu, as I hung a homemade birdfeeder, Ginny sang, "The leaves are the hair . . . the leaves are the hair" to some nursery rhyme sounding tune. A little later she needed to express her excitement a little more and told the birds, "Come on birdies, come get your food!" We used a big concrete brick to stand on. Benjamin didn't like his being so low so he moved it to a higher branch.

Here's the really simple recipe for our bagel birdfeeders.

1 bagel
peanut butter
birdfeed
1 yarn string

Smooth the peanut butter on the sliced side of a bagel. Then pour the birdfeed all over it and press it into the peanut butter. Shake off the excess. Tie a string of yarn through the hole of the bagel and then go hang it on a tree.