@ "Tail" - "Piccolo" is very cute and looks like she makes a really good family member for Ya' . . . 
WOW ! ! !
Was "TK" around today . . .
WOW ! ! !
Was "TK" around today . . .
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Rave, you have such a fantastic variety of birds there in your kingdom! I've been meaning to ask--is this just typical for your region? I've lived in FL most of my life, and almost never see colorful birds, except for cardinals (and the pileated woodpecker that digs the carpenter bee larvae out of my deck railings).
So much of my area is a vast sea of farmland. But there's a small oasis of woodland that is unfarmable because the terrain is blessed with steep ravines. That's the only reason that my land was spared the axe for the last few centuries. Because of the oasis factor, I have a lot of bird and animal life that are nowhere else in the region. Now, if you go to the next oasis, you may see the same things there. The same goes for anyplace. Don't build on it, and they will come.
Dunno where you live in Florida, but when I used to do shows there, I got the impression that the whole world had been taken over by birds. Unless you live near habitat that is more suitable for wildlife rather than people, you're just not going to see it all that often.
Hello volties! Happy new year! Just bolted in to let you see some pictures of my new puppy - Piccolo. She is settling in fine and has gained a pound since she has been with me.
Ohmygosh!!! Look at that faaaaace!!!
@ "Tail" - "Piccolo" is very cute and looks like she makes a really good family member for Ya' . . .
WOW ! ! !
Was "TK" around today . . .
No kiddin'. Well, at least I didn't have to do much back-reading.
Hiya Marlou!!!
Hello volties! Happy new year! Just bolted in to let you see some pictures of my new puppy - Piccolo. She is settling in fine and has gained a pound since she has been with me.
So cute and alert. Thanks for the photos, Tail. She is absolutely adorable!!!!
Good morning, Volties.
We spent yesterday doing just about nothing and it felt good!!! Of course, I fed the critters and picked up their pens. Hubby has a cold and isn't going to work today. I will be cleaning a house.
I am hoping that I am immune to the cold since I had one earlier in the fall.
We spent yesterday doing just about nothing and it felt good!!! Of course, I fed the critters and picked up their pens. Hubby has a cold and isn't going to work today. I will be cleaning a house.
I am hoping that I am immune to the cold since I had one earlier in the fall.
Lizzie, I suspect that your version of "doing just about nothing" would be quite a workout for me. Just sayin'. It's good to see that you were about to relax a bit though.
Hope you don't come down with another cold.
Thanks everyone. I had a choice of three of dogs and I picked Piccolo from her picture. She's the runt of the litter. She is starting to learn the whole potty outside thing, but I must be vigilant and get her out often. Thankfully with the warmer dry weather, potty outside hasn't been a huge issue. I hope she continues to gain a pound a month so she'll be able to use the pet door in a couple of months. She doesn't have enough weight or height to push it open without getting snapped.
We have just started on our training. We are trying to learn sit. She picks up fairly well, but gets distracted quickly. I can't expect a lot since she's almost 13 weeks old. Piccolo visits Whispers grave every day. She just does it. I think Whisper is her guardian angel and is guiding her.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
We have just started on our training. We are trying to learn sit. She picks up fairly well, but gets distracted quickly. I can't expect a lot since she's almost 13 weeks old. Piccolo visits Whispers grave every day. She just does it. I think Whisper is her guardian angel and is guiding her.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
AWWW, Tail! Piccolo looks so sweet! I wish i could give her a little belly rub.
I totally agree with you about Whisper being her Guardian
. She sure is a cutie! I can't wait to see more pics as she gets bigger.
I totally agree with you about Whisper being her Guardian
. She sure is a cutie! I can't wait to see more pics as she gets bigger.
Piccolo does look like a little beauty!!!
I have been offline the past few days. I couldn't catch the wifi signal anymore, so I am now hard-wired. I revised two hundred pages, LOL!!!
I have been offline the past few days. I couldn't catch the wifi signal anymore, so I am now hard-wired. I revised two hundred pages, LOL!!!
Lizzie, I suspect that your version of "doing just about nothing" would be quite a workout for me. Just sayin'. It's good to see that you were about to relax a bit though.
Thanks. Me, too, since that last cold was a booger.
I've been wandering around the house today taking care of miscellanea. Little stuff that never seems to get taken care of or put away. All of it (that I noticed) was transported to where it belonged. Things have a way of getting transplanted during the holiday season. They needed to find their ways home.
My bluebirds looked bereft. The berries on the multiflora rose have been consumed, and I figured that they would soon be gone. I'd picked up some berry mixture to attract them, but, in reading the instructions on the bag, found that the best way to draw them in is with a platform feeder. I didn't have one of those. I was talking about it with my son. He asked if a flat slab of log cut in the round direction with an added lip on the top side would work. I thought it might. Then he headed off into the woods with a chain saw. I now have a bluebird feeder on top of a steel rod left over from the railing construction. Sure hope that it isn't too late and that they aren't too chicken to try it out.
Okay - on to tackle more miscellanea ---->
My bluebirds looked bereft. The berries on the multiflora rose have been consumed, and I figured that they would soon be gone. I'd picked up some berry mixture to attract them, but, in reading the instructions on the bag, found that the best way to draw them in is with a platform feeder. I didn't have one of those. I was talking about it with my son. He asked if a flat slab of log cut in the round direction with an added lip on the top side would work. I thought it might. Then he headed off into the woods with a chain saw. I now have a bluebird feeder on top of a steel rod left over from the railing construction. Sure hope that it isn't too late and that they aren't too chicken to try it out.
Okay - on to tackle more miscellanea ---->
Build it, they will come !!!!!I've been wandering around the house today taking care of miscellanea. Little stuff that never seems to get taken care of or put away. All of it (that I noticed) was transported to where it belonged. Things have a way of getting transplanted during the holiday season. They needed to find their ways home.
My bluebirds looked bereft. The berries on the multiflora rose have been consumed, and I figured that they would soon be gone. I'd picked up some berry mixture to attract them, but, in reading the instructions on the bag, found that the best way to draw them in is with a platform feeder. I didn't have one of those. I was talking about it with my son. He asked if a flat slab of log cut in the round direction with an added lip on the top side would work. I thought it might. Then he headed off into the woods with a chain saw. I now have a bluebird feeder on top of a steel rod left over from the railing construction. Sure hope that it isn't too late and that they aren't too chicken to try it out.
Okay - on to tackle more miscellanea ---->
Geez Rave, I bet your place is so pretty! With all the pretty birdies and woods with a lovely creek! I wanna place like that one day. Way out in the middle of nowhere is my ideal haven(Fiance likes this too).
I have lived in the city and I have lived in the country. Both have their positive and negative aspects, but I prefer the country. Unfortunately, where I live has become a suburb, but I have my acre of land on a quiet dead end street, so that will do.
We live way out in the sticks but there are still too many people, plus all the traffic on our road which is kinda the main road for the county. I want to live waaaay back in the woods so we don't hear all the big trucks mainly log trucks (shudders)! I hate hearing the air brakes and the gear changing. I wanna hear birds and see the deer.... We already got like 20 huge rabbits running around and a couple of deer but thats at night. I wanna see em in the daylight in my yard (and not on the road).
Speaking of which, I wish I had my camera the other day. We were taking Fiance's nephew to pick up his Blazer, when we saw a HUGE buck in the middle of the road. This was broad daylight, too. It was like 3 in the afternoon. He was a 10 pointer... yep he just stood there for like 2 minutes and looked at us before he bounded off!
Speaking of which, I wish I had my camera the other day. We were taking Fiance's nephew to pick up his Blazer, when we saw a HUGE buck in the middle of the road. This was broad daylight, too. It was like 3 in the afternoon. He was a 10 pointer... yep he just stood there for like 2 minutes and looked at us before he bounded off!
I tutored the kids today, so here's the report.
First, the boy. He had been reading a book about Abe Lincoln, so lots of discussion came up about the presidents. So I had printed out a list of the presidents with the dates they were president. I had him read off the list, and corrected his pronunciation of the names he didn't know. He was surprised to see Garfield and wondered if he was named after the cartoon cat. I said it might have been the other way around. We had also discussed Lincoln's height, and the boy had asked me if he was the tallest president. I didn't know, nor did I know just how tall he was. So here are some facts for your trivia collection that I found out for the boy:
Heights of presidents.
Abe Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson were the tallest and the same height, 6'4".
Washington was 6'3".
Jefferson was 6'2½".
James Madison was smallest at 5'4".
Barak Obama is 6'1".
Also, it came up somehow that Lincoln was shot. The boy didn't know this and asked me about it. Who shot him? Where? Why? Duh! I was never really good at history. I said I thought it was someone named Booth, and it was at the theater, and I wasn't sure why, but it might have had something to do with the Civil War and Lincoln freeing the slaves. I told the boy that the Southerners weren't happy after the war to lose their workforce. We discussed slavery and how it worked.
I also mentioned that another president, Kennedy, was shot and killed, and that I was alive then and remembered it. We discussed that a little.
Then we moved on to the vocab words from a few lessons ago. I don't know where the latest ones went -- probably in another notebook, and the boy found an older notebook. But it was a good review, since he wasn't sure of some of them.
After that, he chose a story from a book of stories I brought. I warned him that these stories might be more challenging, but I thought he was up to it. He looked through the contents in the front of the book and chose "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen. I think he chose that one because some time ago, I had told the story to the kids. He did a wonderful job of reading this story that was really more difficult than he should be reading, but I supplied the words he didn't know, we discussed their meaning, and some are the vocab words for next time. A few pages before the end, he started flagging, so when he asked me to read the rest, I obliged. He had worked hard!
Then the girl. She also did a great job of reading a book that was challenging: the Little Golden Book of "Little Red Riding Hood." We got some vocab words from that for her, too. She read it through to the end.
Then the boy joined us again for Mad Libs. We had time for 2 of them, so each kid got to choose one. The boy's favorite adjective is "stupid." When he chose it today, I laughed and said, "How did I know you were going to say that?"
First, the boy. He had been reading a book about Abe Lincoln, so lots of discussion came up about the presidents. So I had printed out a list of the presidents with the dates they were president. I had him read off the list, and corrected his pronunciation of the names he didn't know. He was surprised to see Garfield and wondered if he was named after the cartoon cat. I said it might have been the other way around. We had also discussed Lincoln's height, and the boy had asked me if he was the tallest president. I didn't know, nor did I know just how tall he was. So here are some facts for your trivia collection that I found out for the boy:
Heights of presidents.
Abe Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson were the tallest and the same height, 6'4".
Washington was 6'3".
Jefferson was 6'2½".
James Madison was smallest at 5'4".
Barak Obama is 6'1".
Also, it came up somehow that Lincoln was shot. The boy didn't know this and asked me about it. Who shot him? Where? Why? Duh! I was never really good at history. I said I thought it was someone named Booth, and it was at the theater, and I wasn't sure why, but it might have had something to do with the Civil War and Lincoln freeing the slaves. I told the boy that the Southerners weren't happy after the war to lose their workforce. We discussed slavery and how it worked.
I also mentioned that another president, Kennedy, was shot and killed, and that I was alive then and remembered it. We discussed that a little.
Then we moved on to the vocab words from a few lessons ago. I don't know where the latest ones went -- probably in another notebook, and the boy found an older notebook. But it was a good review, since he wasn't sure of some of them.
After that, he chose a story from a book of stories I brought. I warned him that these stories might be more challenging, but I thought he was up to it. He looked through the contents in the front of the book and chose "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen. I think he chose that one because some time ago, I had told the story to the kids. He did a wonderful job of reading this story that was really more difficult than he should be reading, but I supplied the words he didn't know, we discussed their meaning, and some are the vocab words for next time. A few pages before the end, he started flagging, so when he asked me to read the rest, I obliged. He had worked hard!
Then the girl. She also did a great job of reading a book that was challenging: the Little Golden Book of "Little Red Riding Hood." We got some vocab words from that for her, too. She read it through to the end.
Then the boy joined us again for Mad Libs. We had time for 2 of them, so each kid got to choose one. The boy's favorite adjective is "stupid." When he chose it today, I laughed and said, "How did I know you were going to say that?"
Ah, but Celtic, consider the negative side of living that far away from civilization. You have to travel to the nearest town/city for anything that you may need, like food. Also, you would probably have to travel to town, to get your mail, packages, etc.
well we already have to go to the next town or city to buy groceries and "fed up" does deliver out here anyway
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