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The Aspects Berry Feeders have been discontinued for a while, and we're down to the last bit of remaining stock.  (I personally took the last quick clean big tube, since that's always been my favorite.) Anyways if you like the color, this is going to be your last shot at them.  

431 Medium QC Mesh Nyjer Feeder - 5 available

442 Small QC Seed Tube - 4 available

447 Large QC Nyjer Tube  - 3 available

444 Large QC Seed Tube - 2 available

446 Medium QC Nyjer Tube - 2 available

445 Smal QC Nyjer Tube - 1 available

443 Medium QC Seed Tube -1 available 

 

-Adam

We had a hiccup with our in store point of sale system last month, and long story short we had to re-sync our in store database with the website, and there was a lot of fun side effects to that, mostly duplicated products that we don't normally sell online.  Anyways, if you see anything that looks or seems a bit weird, let us know.  I'm still re syncing a few things tonight so there are a couple products with no images floating around in the background.

RideAtaxia Chicago was a great success.  Team Eleanor raised over $7,000 for Friedreich's Ataxia Research, and the event total was over $120,000.  We're going to keep riding until we have a cure.  Thanks to everyone who donated, I don't really have the words to tell you how much it means to all of us.  If you missed out and would like to donate to FARA, I'm going to ride 50 Miles on October 15th. 

Last year we started getting concerned that our oldest daughter Eleanor, who's now 8 years old, seemed to be showing signs of neurological problems.  At school her teachers noticed her handwriting wasn't improving and that she seemed to be falling and bumping into things a lot more than the other kids.  She had trouble staying stable on her bicycle, and couldn't stop without falling over.  Our neurologist did an MRI, and there were no signs of cancer, the next step was to go through family history and see if there was anything that stuck out.  My wife Kathleen has cousins in Irleand that have Friedreichs Ataxia, so we had her tested.  

FA is a debilitating, life shortening neuromuscular disease.  It causes progressive damage to the nervous system.  It's a rare disease affecting roughly 1 in 50,000.

On August 19th last year, we received confirmation that Eleanor has FA.  

 

We were crushed...  

 

We were in shock, it was like a death in the family, I was grieving.  Grieving for her "normal" "happy" "uncomplicated" childhood.  The world turned into a swirling soup of medical terms... "frataxin", "hypertrophic cardiomyopathy", "GAA triplet repeat", "dorsal root ganglia"..

 About a week after we received the diagnosis, is when I found out about Kyle Bryant and Sean Baumstark.  I was laying in bed, and I found a trailer for the documentary film The Ataxian.   You can watch it below go ahead, I'll wait.

The Ataxian Trailer from Redwood Creek Entertainment on Vimeo.

 

I must've watched that trailer 3 or 4 times in a row.  

For the first time since she was given the diagnosis, I had....  hope.  

It was a great reminder that the your reaction to the adversities of life is more than half the battle.  

Since the diagnosis, Eleanor received a grant from the Challenged Athletes Foundation that we used to purchase a Catrike Pocket. She rides 3-5 miles on an average of 3 times a week.  We're working hard to keep her strong.  

Next week, on July 23rd we'll be riding with Kyle at RideAtaxia Chicago in Channahon IL.  If you'd like to make a donation to FARA (Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance), and support Team Eleanor you can  Donate Here every little bit helps.  FARA is great organization, and we are so grateful for all of their hard work.

 

Thanks for reading, 

- Adam & Kathleen and the whole Nottawa Wild Bird Supply Family 

 

The Aspects Quick Clean Big Tube is the largest tube feeder made by Aspects, and it's one of our best selling feeders. We always get a lot of questions about them, so I though it might be nice take a look at some of the details that make this such a popular feeder.

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Continuing with our theme of plugs and logs from last week here's a little life hack for you. I know it doesn't take a genius to figure this one out but if you're not afraid to get a little bit messy, you can take a reguar old suet cake and cut it up and pack it into your favorite log feeder. Simple as that.

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