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Does anyone have a good recipe for making birdseed or suet?  I don't know why I bother typing "bird"....it really should read "squirrel" food!  He sits up on our feeder like it's a buffet!

I don't have any recipes, but my daughter and I made toast, and cut them out in hearts and other shapes with the cookie cutters, spread peanut butter then dipped into bird seed . We tied them to the trees in pretty ribbons.  One day, we noticed all the ribbons in the trees with out our toast!  It was so cool!

We are SO doing that today.  That's a great idea!

OK..I need to ask.You didn't bring that critter over from your apartment, did you?  

Pam, SHUT UP!  I was just thinking about him this morning. Funny you should bring him up. You know, right before we moved, that chipmunk somehow got INTO our place (under the kitchen sink) and one night I heard him scratching at the trash can.  OMG.  I practically pee'd in my pants.  I open the door and there he is.  Thank God we moved a few days later.  I felt bad for him and I totally wanted to bring him here.  But then....no.  The apartment people, I'm sure have "dealt with him."  I hate to even think about it.

Aaaaawwww. Poor widdle guy.

This is a fun, but messy one for kids.  Spread peanut butter on a pinecone then roll it in birdseed.

Ohhh, I remember making those!  They're fun and the birdies love them!I'd be afraid if I made the toast with peanut butter on it, I'd eat it before it ever got to the birdseed!!

Haha Flap!  Save one toast for you! haha!

Mmmm.....peanut butter on toast.  THAT may be the very thing that gets me off of this computer!

Peanut butter is like crack to me.

Except crack isn't fattening.

Sadly, all my "crack" is.Peanut butter, cheese doodles, CHEESE, chips...........

I told Matt the other day....When I'm on my deathbed, bring me corndogs, Pringles and chip dip, and funnel cakes.  Not only will it taste heavenly, but it'll speed me along.

Don't forget to sterilized your bird seed so it won't germinate in your grass when the birds drop it.

So, How did it go? 

Amy you can take a pine cones also and slather it with peanut butter and roll  heavily in birdseed.  Our squirrels love that. Here is another one if you want to take the time to make it. This recipe yields quite a bit.  Take a pound of Lard, you can buy it at most grocery stores, a jar of peanut butter, about a cup each of raisins and mixed birdseed, about 6 cups of cornmeal and 5 cups flour.  Melt the lard in a large pot and add all the other ingrediets mixing them well. Let it cool some and then put it all in one of those disposable metal cake pans and pat it down evenly.  Cut it into pieces and place them in a suet cage.  Freeze the rest in baggies for storage.

This is our project tomorrow because I am out of birdseed. How do you hang a pinecone?

wrap the ribbon on the top ...kinda like the first section of those seeds..Once you start, you will know what i mean...