Rescue dogs

Happy week-end dear friends!!!!!  I found the big big print thanks to a BFF, Sue from Mitch & Molly !!!  Now I can see what I am writing!!!  Now I need a bigger screen!!!!

When I first moved here 40 years ago, the family got a German Shepard Hank and he was a hunter and his choice to kill was squirrels and he got a lot of them .  Then a couple of years later we got Hank's son Bruce and Hank taught him all he knew.  So Bruce turned out to be a big hunter of squirrels too.  Bruce did leave the other animals alone for the most part tho!!!

 Then came Amanda a rescue Whippet.  She was 5 years old and what jewel she was!!!   She was also a squirrel hunter and she caught a few.

Then Joker.  Joker was 5 and a half and he Loved all the animals.  Her never caught anything. He saw all the wild life here and never chased a one!!!!! He was the sweetest dog I ever knew!!! He also was a rescue.  Then came Bambi another sweet dog.  But she did kill a FEW squirrels in her almost 14 years of living with us, but only a few and the coons were not afraid of her at all b/c she didn't try to get them!!!  These  are the dogs I have had here on this 2 and one half acres.  Zoie is the first to have killed such a variety of critters!!!

Love coming your way, Zoie & Fern    

Predator

Look at this face.  This beautiful dog is becoming a full blown predator!!!!!!!!!!!   She has been here 7 months and 21 days now and in that time she has killed rabbits, moles, raccoons and this morning her first bird---is nothing safe??????????
We have had over 5 inches of rain with our storm.  For some people that live closer to the coast it has been very bad for them.  Storm surge, power outage, trees falling, water in their homes, I feel so sorry for them.  For us it has been just  rain, some branches down and bugs galore, all kinds   I go out suited up so no skin is showing but my face, not my hair, or ears or hands!!!  Still I am bit 6 or 7 times.  I have got to get something to cover my face too!!!!  Mosquitoes can kill now a days!!!

Love coming your way, Zoie & Fern

Sunday-- a little wet-- YAY

We have this little storm south of us in the Gulf and she is giving us a LITTLE sprinkle .  Lord we NEED a sprinkle, we need rain-- lots & lots of it!!!  I hope we get some real rain out of this storm.
I feel so badly with my eyes going on me!!!  For those of you who don't know I was born with only one eye--my left eye that could see.  My whole life has been affected by this.  At 6 years old I was taken to NYC for surgery to make my right eye look at others like it was seeing  and working  the same as my good eye. I had to go back the following year for a second surgery and this time it worked and I have looked normal ever since but I don't see normal I see flat.  It has kept me away from sports and real play with other kids.  I had to get an eye doctor to write a note for me to get a drivers license and that is why I don't have one now.  They will not take the risk of being sued any more!!  I had a hard time learning in school.
I am walking into things now!!  I never use to.
I do thank you so very much for coming to my blog  and leaving a comment even tho I am not making it to yours.  I miss reading your blogs so much!!!  I so appreciate your friendship so much.  I can call anybody in the US but can not call you if you are out of the US.  I wish I could call everybody!!!  If you live in the US and I don't have your ## email me it and I will call you !!!  I want to stay close b/c your my only friends .  I have a couple of friends here in Tallahassee but only a couple.  People don't have time for an old one going blind!!!!
I am hoping you all are coming back to my blog and reading my comment back to you b/c I writing them!!
I love you all!!  Zoie & Fern   

Zoie killed a coon

Happy week-end friends!!!  I should say HOT week-end.  I think most of us are hot now, yes???
I have to tell you something.  Something I am not happy about!!  Zoie killed a coon yesterday in the strawberry garden.  We had known that there was a larger  animal eating our berries.  Larger then a squirrel or a rabbit.  We figured it was a coon but really didn't worry to much for that coon. Zoie can't go out at night except with me --no more just staying out at night. Yesterday we were making soup and Zoie was laying on the floor keeping me company when all of a sudden she jumped up and ran to the door wanting out BAD!!!!  It was 3:30 pm.  I let her out and then heard a yap and looked out and saw her running with something in her mouth.  I couldn't tell what it was from in the house.  Later I went out and saw what it was!!!!  A young raccoon.  One of this year's baby.  I have not seen the babies well enough  to tell who's who.  So I don't know how is missing a baby!!!  That baby didn't know the rules yet-- you don't go into the yard !!!!!  EVER!!!!  I am so sorry for that baby!!!! She was just hungry!!!

I don't know how many mistakes I have made in this post and I am not going back over it to try to see b/c everything is way to blurry!!!  I wish I could see !!!!
Love coming your way, Zoie & Fern 
     

Strawberries out our ears!!!

Friends, I think I am just about strawberry-ed  out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I have been harvesting them 2 times a day now since February the 26th.  I have been getting 20 to 60 berries everyday. We have 200 in the ground and 15 in pots.  I have a freezer full of berries.   I have berries in the sink soaking there-waiting for me to fix them for the freezer or for today or tomorrow consumption.  I am tired of harvesting them and I am tired of trying to think of ways to use them!!!  I am straw berried out!!!   NOT TIRED OF EATING THEM THO!!!

Love coming your way, Zoie & Fern

Monday -- again they come so fast

We work hard here and things are never done!!!!!  Not even close!!!!
Tom had a good Father's day--thank you for all your comments yesterday!!  We had wonderful weather.  It was a little too hot but not 100 degrees thank GOD!!!!  It has been harvest harvest in the garden.  Yesterday I brought in 26 tomatoes all of them beautiful!!!  We had a chicken stir-fry with lots of then in there. Our egg plaint and herbs and banana peppers were in there too.  We had our cucumbers and nasturtiums in our salad so we had a lot from our garden!!!   Had a great dinner!!  What did you have for dinner yesterday??????????????

Love coming your way, Zoie & Fern