Picture talk

So yesterday on FB, I got a little fed up.  And here's what I told the world (as many of you know)...

You know what, everybody? There are people who will just hate whoever the other guy is in politics. There are people who will never give up on defending a "woman's right " to murder babies. There are people that will believe every motivation of a white is race hatred, every motivation of a man is rape, every motivation of a scam post is to give you free money. How about you all just shut up about that crap for a while and tell me what you did to ENJOY YOUR DAY for a change? Just sayin'.


Not surprisingly, this was one of the most commented things on FB I ever did- at least, that wasn't heartbreaking!  Among the answers I got were: eating ice cream, grilling (and getting a new grill), lazying around with kids or pets, watching baseball, grad parties, church, bed-and-breakfasting and other foodie-related stuff, and playing with little ones- for example, this guy:

And since I'm pretty much still of this same mind, I thought I might show you a couple pics and share a couple stories.

I think they're putting in a church down the road...

Kitty in the ditch...

This whole cardinal thing was kinda funny.  When I first saw them, the male and female were doing like a courtship dance.  When I got closer, the pair went one way- and another male who was apparently "with them" went another.  The pictures here are after I ran into the trio a second time, thus relieving me of the guilt of breaking up "Bachelor: Cardinal".

I believe this was what kitty was waiting for- but mom had them well downstream...

Oh, yeah, did I tell you they tore the old wooden bridge out?  Prolly figured it was the only way to keep me from falling through since I ignored the barricades...

Starlings have a nest in this hole- I wasn't fast enough to get a snap of the in-and-outs...

"Hey, a little privacy?"

Thinking of the many times we sat here, and the many times Scrappy waded here, I cried taking this...

Get the indigo bunting before he takes off...

Scrappy's favorite watering hole has new tenants...

Now that the porch is no longer "doggie restroom", I decided to make it more livable with this nice planter- which was way too heavy for the former "auxiliary bird feeder" post and had to be secured with string.  Afterwards, Laurie and I had a nice au fresco lunch.  Chip the chipmunk joined us, briefly.  The sparrow mafia made plans to rub us out.  And the weirdest thing- see the knothole in the fence, bottom right?  a bee- I'm guessing from out of town- or else one of those flies that try to fake being a bee- was sitting there, with a local bumblebee hovering about 3 inches away- never moving, never looking away.  Prolly about 15 minutes.  Finally, the watcher nudged him in the butt, he tried to take off, and the flier beat the crap out of him!  Took him to the ground, let him up, he got back on the fence.  The other bee kept an eye out, but began to move around a bit more.  Seeing an opening, the other one took off- and it might be the first time I ever saw one fly a straight line, right on outta Dodge!

After that, we concluded the meal by Laurie christening the porch by dropping a china bowl.

The pool's open- just not for humans...

Walking in the rain...

Noobie always shows up right around church time...