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No commentary, I’m just going to post these photos taken from our front porch the other night.
Enjoy the sunset.
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A colorful way to end the day.
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Random bits.
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I’ve always loved bugs and insects, the bigger and weirder the better. My father used to swear he found a new variety in the garden every year and I believe it’s true. Their diversity is amazing.
That being said, you know I was thrilled when I found this little beauty in my flower bed the other day.
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Now that’s a spider!
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Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this product’s Amazon pricing?
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I think we’re down to four woodchucks now.
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I haven’t seen six together for quite a while so I’m guessing momma finally booted some of their big butts out of the burrow.
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Damn.
I wish they’d had these when I was young and in love with dinosaurs.
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Up close and personal.
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The other day my husband went to the woodshed to pull out his garden cart and came back in the house shortly after.
“I think one of your woodchucks is hurt” he said.
That made me drop what I was doing and rush out back to find this:
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Junior, momma chuck’s full grown offspring from last year.. the one who never left the nest, was wedged in between the cart, some wood and a few landscaping bricks.
Or was he?
I knelt down, spoke softly and determined he wasn’t stuck… just scared.
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We backed off, hid around the corner and waited for 10 minutes but he wouldn’t move.
Wanting to get on with his chores the husband slowly pulled the cart out of the shed and bam!
Junior was off like a shot to hide under the deck.
Not hurt, just antisocial.
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Pink sky at night…
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There’s always something beautiful to see when you live in the country.
Last night?
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It was a gloriously pink sky.
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A sailor’s delight for sure.
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But I liked it too.
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Hummingbird wars.
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We have two hummingbird nectar feeders on our back deck. (Sugar and water only please. Don’t buy that packet with the awful red dye. Use red glass feeders instead.)
2023 has been a banner year for hummers and I don’t think we’ve ever seen this many at one time. But with high numbers come battles, because while they’re beautiful … they’re also quite territorial.
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The minute one sits down to feed, another arrives to chase it off.
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Please appreciate the fact I had to take 20 photos to get these two of the little jewels in flight. Those little suckers are quick.
Here’s a short video of a male and a female. They drank together for a short while.
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And if that wasn’t amazing enough?
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Three hummers. Happily feeding together…
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That’s never happened before.
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Things seen while shopping.
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I went out thrifting with a friend the other day. We both love a bargain and had a ball at Goodwill and Salvation Army. You never know what treasure awaits.
Banana Republic linen blazer for $3? Yes please. Talbot weekender chinos for $2? I was all over that.
And as we stepped into the parking lot at Goodwill?
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A car that’s definitely easy to find.
After a morning of thrifting, we had lunch and hit TJ Maxx… which I think of as new merchandise thrift.
I had to laugh at this dress on the clearance rack. It was a size extra large with strategically placed cutouts.
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Being a woman of a certain size I can assure you that is not where extra large women want less fabric.
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A can of water.
People will buy anything I swear.
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Good morning!
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Mother Nature is a beautiful thing and sometimes she rewards my insomnia with an early morning show.
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When the dawn sky looks like this in our backyard, I don’t mind being awake at 4:30am.
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Well, actually I do…. and curse that demonic body altering thing called menopause on a regular basis.
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But at least there’s an occasional benefit.
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Not that it makes up for weight gain, fatigue and hot flashes…
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But it sure is pretty.
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Finito! Well… almosto.
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The contractor is gone, for now… and the back deck work is finished.
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Well, almost finished.
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And while we now have steps and pretty white skirting….
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You have to be a little careful where you walk.
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Because our builder was slightly off on his calculations….
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And we’re still waiting for the three more boards that had to be special ordered.
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He’s promised not to charge for picking them up or installing them so it’s fine.
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Just be careful when you step out the back door.
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A man and his ditch.
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My husband is not happy.
Not in any way, shape, or form.
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Every time he goes outside he gravitates to the hideous Grand Canyon we now have at the edge of our property.
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Talk about an eyesore. People are literally walking by with their mouths open. A few have even stopped in to ask… why?
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What a mess. And aside from the fact they took a good two feet of our lawn? They couldn’t even be bothered to do it uniformly, and that rankles.
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Let’s forget that it looks like a giant gaping maw…the whole purpose of the project was to stop the caving in and erosion.
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See the stripes? That’s what happened after the first rain. All the seed and hay flowed to the bottom…
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And we had intermittent washouts. Which is exactly what we had before.
It’s maddening.
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In case you’re wondering, it’s three feet in that spot. In some places it’s three and a half. Won’t that be fun to mow…
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Assuming we can ever get grass to grow there again.
Sigh…
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The one where His Lordship investigates the deck project…
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Work has been progressing on the deck and the other day it was finally time for Lord Dudley Mountcatten to check things out.
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He approached warily, and then took a detour.
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To the stack of unused boards
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And then to the stack of extra wood, which he promptly climbed on and knocked over scaring himself to death.
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I laughed, so he jumped back on the deck boards and gave me the evil eye.
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When he finally ascended to the half finished deck, he explored a bit…
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And plopped.
We tend to do more sitting than walking on our outdoor excursions. His Lordship does not like to waste energy unnecessarily.
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But when he’d had enough fresh air?
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He paced back and forth in front of the door….
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Not understanding why I wouldn’t jump across the divide to open it.
So instead…
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He plopped, and seemed to approve of the new decking materials.
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