{"id":95,"date":"2008-01-02T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T20:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/chickadees-reminder-of-patience-virtue\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:13:17","slug":"chickadees-reminder-of-patience-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/chickadees-reminder-of-patience-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickadees Reminder of Patience Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/02\/chickadees-reminder-of-patience-virtue\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F01%2F02%2Fchickadees-reminder-of-patience-virtue%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/chickadee-feeder-crop.jpg\" title=\"chickadee\" alt=\"chickadee\" align=\"right\" height=\"273\" width=\"401\" \/>I just had a visit from a pair of chickadees outside my office window (they&#8217;re fast, but we managed to capture proof to the right).<\/p>\n<p>We hung a bird feeder a few weeks back, just after I had seen a little bird hopping around the balcony beside my desk.  But it seemed like we weren&#8217;t going to be getting any bird visitors this season, because it just hung there with no action at all.<\/p>\n<p>Finally this morning they came, chirping and taking turns flying up to get a beakfull of seeds, then flitting away again.<\/p>\n<p>So it turns out that, once again, I learn that patience is a virtue.  It was definitely worth it to see the happy little birds.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re my mom&#8217;s favorite bird, too&#8230; her name is Dee, and when she was little she discovered that they call her name: &#8220;Chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee&#8221;!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just like when we&#8217;re manifesting something &#8212; we can&#8217;t expect it to show up right away.<\/p>\n<p>Everything has a gestation period, and comes when the circumstances are right, not when you THINK you want it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the gestation period for chickadees is a few weeks! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping the Mysteries of Life!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/heather_sig.jpg\" title=\"Heather Vale\" alt=\"Heather Vale\" height=\"31\" width=\"185\" \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had a visit from a pair of chickadees outside my office window (they&#8217;re fast, but we managed to capture proof to the right). 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