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Damn it.
After I finally make a decision and order our new living room furniture? This pops up.
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Now that’s a chair!
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Cross out son, insert wife…
This is my future.
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When someone doesn’t want his feet touched.
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Worst. Coffee. Mug. Ever.
The sequel…
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Our backyard herd.
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😊
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We have snow, then rain and ice and more rain.
Our lawn is white, our lawn is green.
The poor deer never know what they’re waking up to these days.
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So we put out a few bowls of grain for our resident herd.
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Placement is key.
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Put the bowls too close together like my husband did and the buck will kick you out of the way.
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Before he settles in for a nosh.
❤️
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The long awaited solar eclipse was a low key event as Casa River. Yes, we could have driven up north and seen the totality… but the traffic was nuts and the crowds were insane so we settled for 95% on the barn porch.
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I went out half an hour early with a book and a beer.
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I was ready.
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The man cave/Barn Mahal porch proved an excellent viewing platform.
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Though my attempts at photographing the event were less so.
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But it was an awesome sight and we enjoyed the experience.
And while we didn’t have totality darkness, the change in light and temperature was enough to flip out our resident woodchucks who were scurrying all over the place.
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When they see or hear us, they usually hide.
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But not during the eclipse.
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They were looking for shelter and didn’t give us a second thought.
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So how about you?
Did your eclipse viewing include befuddled wildlife….
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We haven’t seen much of our resident deer this winter because… well, we didn’t have much of a winter in Maine this year.
But with the late season snow storm came our backyard buddies.
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I sure have missed them.
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Love to watch the young ones kick up their heels and scamper around.
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That big guy in the foreground is a buck.
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He has a nice little harem.
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Oh what a difference a day makes.
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The beginning of green grass and our first chuck sighting of the season.
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The next day?
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It’s back to winter.
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And one very limber local cat.
In other news…
She’s baaaaack.
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It’s the sci fi franchise that just won’t die.
And finally, a little help if you’re planning a vacation.
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😉
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Useless and chuckle worthy is my goal.
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I must be part Labrador… because all this extra weight I’m carrying can’t be my fault.
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What a deal.
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I can’t say I’ve ever had any great desires to visit Detroit… but now I kind of do.
Singing pork products are hard to find.
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And so it begins…
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Someone probably did, but I’m guessing it wasn’t this guy.
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It’s not every day you see a sleeping opossum hugging a crocheted opossum while wearing Crocs, but here you are.
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I remember having Barbie Dolls when I was a child. I never really liked them but people always gifted them to me because, ya know.. girl toy.
Back in my day there weren’t many varieties of Barbie, maybe Malibu… and that seemed exotic at the time. Now? There are hundreds.
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Damn. That sure beats a suntan.
And lest you think these versions are cheap, Barbie with psychotic birds will set you back $399…. which I thought was outrageous until I saw this –
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Yikes!
The title of this next photograph I took when we went out to lunch the other day should be Are we doing this now?
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How about you just pay your kitchen staff a decent wage and not expect the customers to pay extra to keep them happy?
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His Lordship joined me on the couch the other day when I was reading.
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Being a hedonistic creature of comfort, he assumed the position.
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And I took a few pictures. But when I put the phone down beside me and it flipped the photo’s orientation upside down?
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I had a good laugh at my demented looking cat.
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Spring is here … though to be honest I’m still waiting for winter. March in Maine used to mean cold and snow but temps have been near 50 most of the month and up until last week’s snow storm we had green grass in places.
Sigh.
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It’s been damp and too warm all winter.
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Though I admit the morning fog is soothing.
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His Lordship?
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Never misses his morning coffee.
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And now that his scratchy post has been returned to its normal living room site…
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All is right with his world.
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I just hope the furniture stores don’t mind a little cat hair on their fabric samples.
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Here are a few crazy things I’ve seen recently. They’re too good not to share….
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Cow!
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.
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I’ve received some odd things in the mail but not that odd. It made me wonder what the hell Orka actually was.
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Huh?
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Water that has glycerol esters of wood rosin? I think I’ll pass.
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So long cute swirly heart, there’s a new cat kid in town.
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This is brilliant. I wonder if it works for short husbands as well…?
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That’s a serious lack of quality control right there.
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The Irish are such a thoughtful people…
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