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Stayed home today, and got some cleaning done. I was out in the garage where I can smoke...talking to my friend on the phone, when one of the feral cats came out from the lean to...and a dang Mocking bird was chasing him. I shooed the Mocking Bird away, but he came back and was on the ground right in front of me..raising his wings at me and had kind of a growl going on. I growled back at him..He came closer to me with his wings out and growling. The cat went and sat under my van. I was sitting on my walker and stood up growling back at the bird, and he flew up to the power lines, and we did this arguing back and forth for a while. The cat, Patch, finally left and the bird followed him. Later Blackie showed up and that stupid bird was chasing HIM. I kept arguing with him..fed Blackie under my van, and got my fly swatter. The bird kept coming back, but once I slapped that fly swatter on the ground, he left. He came back, but kind of pretended to be finding food..no growling, but a chirp that sounded like he was still mad. Anyway, Blackie finally got up, got him some water under the lean to and left. The bird shut up and left...No idea why the birds around here especially the Mocking birds and the BlueJays are always chasing the squirrels and the cats. None of them are bothering the birds that I have seen. Most of the cats are kind of lazy and a little older. The Mocking birds seem to be real Drama Queens. I thought Blue Jays were bullies...NOPE..Mocking birds have them beat in that area. Tom's B-day is tomorrow, and we had steak, backed potato and corn on the cob tonight to celebrate.