Squirrel’s Rainy Retreats

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Squirrel’s Rainy Retreats

By Carol on Friday, July 8th, 2011 | No Comments

It was raining hard today… as usual in July in Florida. I’ve seen a squirrel hide out in the little nook in my big laurel oak before: Today, there was an extra visitor trying to stay on the dry side of the tree. His spot doesn’t look nearly as comfortable as the one higher up. [...]

Thunder and Arthur

By Carol on Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Thunder the dolphin and Arthur the cat are just too cute. [big sigh] For some reason, the owner of this video decided to make it private – you can’t even watch it on youtube now without an invitation.

Halloween Creepy-ness

By Carol on Friday, October 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Caution: this is icky and gets no picture to go with it! Since it’s so close to Halloween, I thought I’d share what just happened in my backyard. A good gross-out story seems to go well with the Halloween theme… While digging up some weeds in my side yard just now, I caught a whiff [...]

Bald Is Beautiful?

By Carol on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Not sure if bald is always so beautiful… actually a blue jay without his head feathers is kinda spooky looking. Quite a few of the blue jays have lost their head feathers all at the same time. Not sure why but it does make them look so funny. Seems to happen almost every summer. The [...]

Baby Bunnies Are FAST

By Carol on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Early this morning I saw something zoom around the deck then more slowly come towards it. It was too big for the rat and too small for a squirrel. By the time it stopped darting every which-a-way, I saw it was the baby bunny Crystal said she saw over the weekend. What a cute little [...]

Bunnies Are At It Again

By Carol on Thursday, September 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Yesterday I plugged up, yet again, a rabbit hole under the corner of my fence in the backyard. The neighborhood rabbits are asserting their rights to live anywhere they want .. like it was written into their constitution or something. I stuck a couple of leftover pavers into the new hole yesterday morning (and it’s [...]

Winter in Clearwater

By Carol on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 | No Comments

No, it’s not winter in Clearwater yet … just the Labor Day weekend. But there’s always a Winter at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and she’s going to be a star in her own movie which is being filmed now. I was there earlier this year with Crystal and her family. That little dolphin who should [...]

This Is a Smart Bird

By Carol on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | 1 Comment

I’m not sure who’s trained in this video. It’s a young ibis tapping on Crystal’s window. She throws bread out of it several times a day to feed the flock of ibises that show up daily. She has named this one “Knocky-pants“. Turn up your speakers and you can hear it. So is the ibis [...]

Oh Great – It’s a Brown Widow

By Carol on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Lucky me…. not only do I keep finding black widow spiders, but now I found a brown widow. And writing about spiders really, really isn’t that interesting to me. But in the spirit of being sure everyone knows what these things look like, here’s the brown dude(ette) munching in a wasp. It took me quite [...]

Lizard’s New Clothes

By Carol on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 | No Comments

The little anole lizards you can see everywhere around here are cute. They also are good at eating bugs – roaches included. This guy is shedding off his old skin and getting a new outfit… he must have heard about the big sale at Dillards this weekend!

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