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"Probably a couple months I would notice when I was looking at Avery in a light I would see something in the back of his eye," says Julie Fitzgerald, Avery's mother.


Julie started to wonder what it could be and went online and read an article about a woman who saw a white eye in photos of relatives instead of the normal red eye and it turned out to be cancer. Julie told the story to her husband Patrick. He says he told her it was nothing. But Julie couldn't shake the feeling something was wrong.

"I took a picture and I did not want to take the picture because I had this dreaded feeling in the pit of my stomach and I took the picture and boom. His whole pupil was just white and that's when I knew," Julie says.

That was three weeks ago. Julie took Avery to a specialist who gave them the news.

"He took one look and said there are multiple, multiple tumors," Julie says.

It was retinoblastoma, 75 percent of Avery's eye was covered in tumors and it had to be removed. The doctors told them had they waited much longer it could have spread to his brain and blood.
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Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Pictures, or it never happened
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NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Now that's a nice story. I knew there was something positive to read here somewhere.

 
NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Awesome project to spend some quality time with your son and also get your kid into woodworking and then maybe birding and down the line nature photography. Interesting to see how those hobby/career avenues can open up at an early age.

 
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NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Pictures, or it never happened
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Ha ha! I'm the worst at taking pics and getting them posted. But I'll try.
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icedavis said:
NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Awesome project to spend some quality time with your son and also get your kid into woodworking and then maybe birding and down the line nature photography. Interesting to see how those hobby/career avenues can open up at an early age.
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Are you a birder? I'm not, but I did a little birding a couple weeks ago. I saw an odd looking chickadee drinking out of our fish pond. Black and white, with two white, sort of jagged, stripes running front to back on its head. I looked it up and I think it was a mountain chickadee. Since I live in Illinois, that would be fairly unusual.

 
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Pro Tip: Paint a tiny sign and hang it on the birdhouse: "For Wrent"
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I have that on one of my bird houses.

I have a couple of different bird houses around my yard and not one damn bird will use them. I do have squirrels that use one though and they had some babies last year. It was kind of neat.

I made a squirrel feeder last year that holds an ear of corn and when the squirrel walks out to eat on it, the platform spins and they fall off. It is funny watching new squirrels give it a try. The ones that have been around awhile will hang from a branch above the ear and eat it that way.

 
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icedavis said:
NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Awesome project to spend some quality time with your son and also get your kid into woodworking and then maybe birding and down the line nature photography. Interesting to see how those hobby/career avenues can open up at an early age.
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Are you a birder? I'm not, but I did a little birding a couple weeks ago. I saw an odd looking chickadee drinking out of our fish pond. Black and white, with two white, sort of jagged, stripes running front to back on its head. I looked it up and I think it was a mountain chickadee. Since I live in Illinois, that would be fairly unusual.
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I am not but ever since I got into photography I have met a ton of people who do photography and birding and shoot photos of birds. I dont really get it (birding) but I get how it can be more than just a hobby for people.

 
icedavis said:
NUance said:
icedavis said:
NUance said:
Three weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon I built a little wren house with my five year old kid. I did the sawing since he doesn't like the loud sound of my compound miter saw. (He generally takes off when I'm cutting something and watches from the next room.) I had him trace around a quarter so we'd get the size of the door hole right. The side walls taper slightly outward, and I used a 1/4" dowel for the peg. We even went to Home Depot and bought some bright red paint. I let my son paint it while I mowed the lawn. We hung it up across the yard from the house, so we could see it from our deck. It turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, a few days ago a pair of wrens showed up. They've been busy building a nest in our new wren hose. For some reason it gives me great pleasure to watch those wrens go in and out of that little door hole carrying sticks to build their nest. Next up: a purple martin house.
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Awesome project to spend some quality time with your son and also get your kid into woodworking and then maybe birding and down the line nature photography. Interesting to see how those hobby/career avenues can open up at an early age.
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Are you a birder? I'm not, but I did a little birding a couple weeks ago. I saw an odd looking chickadee drinking out of our fish pond. Black and white, with two white, sort of jagged, stripes running front to back on its head. I looked it up and I think it was a mountain chickadee. Since I live in Illinois, that would be fairly unusual.
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I am not but ever since I got into photography I have met a ton of people who do photography and birding and shoot photos of birds. I dont really get it (birding) but I get how it can be more than just a hobby for people.
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Yeah. Birders get crazy over it. A few months ago birders flocked to my town from hundreds of miles away to see an ivory gull, above, apparently very rare in the Midwest. I could've driven one mile from my office, but didn't have the time.

 
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