March 23 2010

Hi blog friends, Yesterday was rainy and cool for a day in Florida in March. We are suppose to have days in the middle 70's and yesterday was 52 degrees!! Today is different, the sun is out and it is warming up. Thank God!!!

The picture is of me and my Grand-daughter when she was about 3 months old!!! My G-daughter lives in Las Vegas. If it were not for the computer I would have no contact with her at all. Thank God for the computer and thank Tom for buying me this old used one!!!

This picture is a of my Whippet that I rescued from Ga. She was in a Greyhound rescue place.

This is a photo of a painting that my Mother painted. My mother was a cat lover!! She feed any and all cats that came her way. Needless to say she had a lot of cats!!!!!!!! There is a organization that will spay and neuter the stray cats that you feed for nothing. She use to have them spay and neuter them for her. I wish I remembered the name of them but I don't right now. You can look it up on Google.

I will try to do better and blog again probably Thursday.

Love you all very much!! I wish I could meet you!!!

Bambi, Happy & Fern

Raccoons

Another pretty day here in Tally town. I have been around raccoons over 30 years. I love them.

Some of the strangers I would watch out for and others I am so close to I can doctor them when they get injured. They get into fights with each other and with things that want to eat them.

They are fierce fighters.

They are also very friendly and when they know you very well they can be loving. The old ones dance when I go out to feed them. In the beginning I use to think they didn't live more then 3 years. I never had one around more then that. As time went by I had them around longer and longer. Now I have one that will 8 years old this coming May.

During winter they only come out at dark thirty. In the summer when it starts getting hot, they come out before noon. It gets too hot to sleep during the day.

All pictures I have of them are taken in the summer time. A well feed coon will have 3 or 4 babies each year. The babies will stay with their mother almost a year. Some mothers allow their daughters to stay longer, but she will definitely run off her sons during the end of winter.

If the winter is a mild one they run them off at the middle of winter. Some mothers run off their daughters too , other do not. So last month the only coons that I feed were females. By the middle of march the strange males started showing up. It is mating time. It is a very violent time. But if a son comes back all females will fight them to run them off . That is there way of keeping from inbreeding.........

I have wanted to talk about the coons for awhile now and since it is breeding time it is a good time.

Have a good week end!!!

Love you all, Bambi, Happy, coons & Fern

Coons, Camellia, and Bambi

Hi blog friends, it is a beautiful day here in Tally town. We are suppose to get to 74 degrees today!!!!! We are so happy to have the warmer weather.

The first picture is of my wonderful rescue dog Bambi. The picture was taken just a few days ago. We were on our way out the back door to go walk.

The other picture is of my clematis vine taken last summer. They are starting to leaf out. They die back in the cold and in spring they leaf out and flower. The one God gave me on my birthday was not suppose to happen. It was my birthday miracle.

I had a photo of the coons that did not load. I don't know why it didn't. Can I load a photo in the middle of blogging ? Like now?? Could I load that pic right now? Would it load right here?

If you know I am asking.

Love you all lots, Bambi, Happy & Fern

NO Power

They are going to turn my power off and replace 2 or 3 power poles today. So I will be off the computer today and hope to be back on tonight!! I will miss you!!!!!!!!!! Had a good visit at the dentist yesterday. See you later tonight I hope.
Fern

Bambi and plants

Hey friends, there is my sweet girl. She is almost 12 and a half now. She is in pretty good shape for her age.

This is our Japanese Magnolia tree in full bloom.
And another picture of it.

The picture below is one of our early bloomer. The first Azaleas to bloom!!
I heard on TV that the north east is going to have another snow storm. Some will be happy and so will NOT.

I hope you have about what you want, because we hardly ever get just what we want.

Have a good day. I am going to the dentist tomorrow for a cleaning and to have blood work done. So I will not be on the computer much tomorrow.

Love you all lots, Bambi & Fern

Bambi Happy and Parsley

Hi there friends, We had rain Thursday and Friday. But Tuesday and Monday were warm sunny days. This is Bambi enjoying that sunshine by rolling in the grass on her back!!

The photo below is Happy cat sitting on the hot tub steps. She doesn't look a day older then 3 years old, does she?? Cats usually don't show there age like people or dogs. I wish I knew how old she is but all we have is a guess. She is some where between 15 and 18 years old.

On the steps with Happy is our thyme. Can you see the thyme??

The picture above is our parsley. Our flat leaf parsley. We have tomatoes with their first true leaves coming up under the plant table. We have sweet peppers just coming up. We have cat nip and marigolds coming up. We have basil and more parsley coming up. We have planted Swiss chard, strawberries, mint and rosemary. We have been busy!! I can't wait for home grown

tomatoes.

Spring has come to Florida!!!!!!!!!!

I will see you all on Monday. Love your visits!! become a follower if you are not one.

Love you all lots, Bambi, Happy & Fern