The three of us love the Mama so we got the Daddy to go and get something shiny for her. She likes shiny stuff.
The Daddy says this is a handmade turquoise and coral necklace and earring set. A man here in town makes these and sells them in the old part of downtown.
The Mama was surprised and liked the present. She got a card that the Daddy signed for Bear, Bay Bay and Cabela.
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The Mama got us both new harness rigs today. The old ones were straps that were wearing off our fur (we pull at our leashes a little – or, maybe a LOT). anyhow, the new ones are padded and feel comfortable to us as we pull our Mama and Daddy around. Click on us to make us big.
Ron, one of our friends on the River, made this cute little yellow birdhouse for us. Today, I took it out to my “musical mesquite” tree, where I hang wind chimes and other colorful decorative things, and hung it on one of the branches. We want to hang it higher in the tree to encourage birds to occupy it, but we left it where it was when a wind gust came up and knocked over my mini-greenhouse up in the courtyard. We ran up there and cleaned up the mess in the courtyard. Amazingly, we did not lose any of the plants in the courtyard or in the greenhouse. Click on the image to enlarge.
Before we left for California last month, there was a white-tailed antelope squirrel burrowing under the quarter minus landscape topping in our courtyard. The burrowing would have endangered some of the shrubs in the courtyard, so I caved in the critter’s excavation, patched up the holes and covered it with a large flower pot to keep it from trying to burrow there again.
When we got home last week, there were no signs of additional burrowing, so we thought the problem had gone away. Yesterday, however, Verna saw the little critter gnawing on a decorative scarf she tied around the neck of a small statue of a coyote. So, I set the little Havahart rat trap next to the statue and baited it with a couple of dog kibbles. Sure enough, the trap sprung this afternoon with the critter inside. I took the trap over to the neighbor’s unimproved lot and let the squirrel run off into the underbrush.
I do not know if catching the squirrel will discourage it from returning to the courtyard, so I set the trap again. We’ll see what happens. Click on the image above to enlarge.
Now that spring is in full effect, we finally got around to hanging up the seed bell out back. One of the early visitors is a cardinal. Click on the image to enlarge.
Verna and I were about to take the dogs out for a short walk at just about sundown this evening. When Verna opened up the patio door, the dogs began barking excitedly. Up on the bluff behind the RV drive, she saw some javelina walking toward the wash on the west side of the property. She restrained the dogs since javelina are known to attack, especially if they have young nearby.
I ran and got my camera and went out into the courtyard where I had a view of several of them in the wash. I snapped this photo of one of the bigger ones staring back at me. The yellow dish on the ground is where Verna puts water out for the little critters and birds. I was about ten yards away from this guy when I took the photo. Click to enlarge.
