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Why eat standing up…
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When lying down works just as well.
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Why eat standing up…
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When lying down works just as well.
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Working with our contractor has ended for now but will resume in a week or two. And God forbid my retired husband should enjoy himself and do something fun. No…
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He’s decided to lay perforated drainage pipe.
You know, the one I told him to lay last year when he installed that drainage box.
Ever since we had the driveway redone last year water has been funneling down to our kitchen landing/porch and in heavy rain we step outside to a river.
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The catch basin was a good idea, but the husband poo poo’d the extra effort involved in laying pipe saying it wasn’t necessary.
Guess what?
It was.
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So today…
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Trench work began.
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With some help from his cousin.
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Rock and clay don’t make it easy.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is an interactive television watcher.
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Especially when it’s a Nature documentary on birds of prey.
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Summer is coming.
You’re welcome.
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It’s been a weird, cold and wet spring. We still have temperatures dropping to 40 so while the grass is a stunning vibrant green…
Most of the trees haven’t leafed out yet.
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Not that His Lordship cares, there are still mice to hunt.
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The Orioles are still here and eating jars of grape jelly faster than I can buy them. They’re beautiful and hungry.
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A bluebird, just because.
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Our resident fox is a beauty.
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Healthy, bright eyed and judging from this photo?
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Possibly a momma.
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Who likes to lie down while eating.
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One.
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Two.
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Three.
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Four.
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Five.
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Six.
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Six Baltimore Orioles stopping by for a brief time on their way to northern breeding grounds.
Put out oranges and grape jelly the first time you see one… then sit back and enjoy the bright orange show.
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Our beautiful fox shows up every day at dusk.
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We think she has a den in our back woods.
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And though I put special food out for her, every once in a while she steals the bread I put out for the birds.
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Because everyone needs to carb load now and then.
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While out grocery shopping the other day I passed this truck.
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Thinking I saw what I thought I saw, I had to do a little research.
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It’s not every day you see a top hatted turd smoking a cigar.
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My town’s Facebook page is usually good for a smile or two and I check in occasionally to see what the locals are up to.
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Hmm.
That can’t be good.
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That’s definitely not good… and another reason I don’t mind looking like a weirdo walking Dudley around our property on a leash.
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It is indeed. I had to stop on the side of the road just yesterday and help a big fellow across before he was squashed.
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A few weeks ago we had two young woodchucks fighting over food
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Now?
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Momma chuck is back and the fighting is over.
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Matter of fact, since she’s arrived there’s no one to left to fight.
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The teenagers have left the building…
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And momma reigns supreme.
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Excuse the noise of my dryer tumbling in the background.
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It isn’t often we see a Pileated woodpecker at Casa River…
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But this big guy flew in the other day and had a nosh on the suet nugget cage.
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Pileateds usually stay in the woods and rarely venture into our wide open back yard.
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Good thing I had my phone camera handy.
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