MORE SQUIRREL

Due to popular demand, I've managed to get more pictures of Mr. Squirrel (his new name) and have posted them here today. These are not the greatest pics as I took them thru the back bedroom window using the close up feature on the camera. Anyway, this is Mr. Squirrel eating cat food (Friskies Signature Blend to be specific) from the bowls left on the deck for the outside kitties.

You can see that he is a very neat eater, as opposed to those messy doves. They like to stand in the bowls and tip them over! In the last pic you can see him washing his meal down with some fresh water. Of course he still loves the bird seed, especially those scrumptious sunflower seeds and I see him daily, dangling by his toes, feasting away. He lets me get fairly close to him and freely admits he's an incorrigible squirrel. I even think I heard a little giggle as I walked away. Of course that could have been the heat, too! Anyway, enjoy the pics and the continuing saga of Mr. Squirrel.

SQUIRREL ACROBATICS

I tried to get a picture of the squirrel eating from the small bird feeder. He is hanging from a limb by his back feet and snacking away. I couldn't get any closer without chasing him away. I believe this is the same squirrel who was romancing my cat, but, of course, you can never be sure unless they have some unique feature.

This particular feeder keeps getting taken down because they squirrels knaw at the cord hanger. I thought some hot sauce on the cord last time would solve that problem, but didn't. Then I got a brainstorm (dangerous thing! lol). I used picture hanging wire and it seems to be working. The wire is flexible enough to loop through the feeder, but hard to chew through. We'll see how long it holds up.

WHEW!!

Sorry to have been away so long, but I've been busy, ok? I did a floor to ceiling cleaing of the kitchen, breakfast area and laundry nook. It was a lot of work, took me four days, but I must say everything looks really nice. I took everything out of the cabinets and managed to weed out alot of stuff. By the time I was done I had nearly two big boxes of stuff to go to the charity shop.

Since the kitchen was all clean and neat, I decided I would install a new kitchen faucet. The old was was leaky so it was time. I did that yesterday. I had forgotten what a chore working under the kitchen sink can be! There's so much to work around besides the pipes. Like the diswasher connection and the garbage disposal. I don't know how these big men plumbers do it. It took several hours, a cut finger and scraped knuckles, but it's done!! And it looks so nice. Works great, too!! Well, except for the sprayer. It works great, but isn't totally secure. I need someone to hold the top down while I go under the sink to screw down the nut that keeps it down My arms just aren't long enough to do both. I even tried locking pliers, but there's just not much to hold on to so I'll wait for visitors.

The weather has turned hot, hot, hot!!! That's the usual norm for Houston, but it's a couple of weeks early. And we need rain really bad!! If you have rain in your area, could you please send some of it down this way? My water bill is going to go thru the roof!! And tap water isn't all that good for the lawn either.

Mr. Squirrel is still visiting, but mostly in the backyard. For the third time already they've chewed thru the cord of the smaller bird feeder. I tried putting hot sauce on it last time, but I guess it's worn off. I need to see if I can find some light, flexible wire this time. I don't mind them eating the seed, but I wish they wouldn't demolish the feeders!!!

Today is Sunday and I'm trying to take it easy and recover from yesterday's work. Who knew plumbing would use so many different muscles!?!? I'm hoping to get the last blocks for my strip quilt done today so I'd better get to it.

And I want to say thank you to everyone who reads my blog. I love looking on the FeedJit feed and see where everyone is coming in from. Amazing!!! Thanks for visiting and please leave a comment, if you want to.

YOUNG LOVE?

This is a series of pictures I took of a squirrel who seems to have come courting one of my kitties. He sits in the tree outside the kitchen window, watching Katie. She often goes to the window to look out at him, too. (Sorry I don't have a picture of her looking out the window - I'll keep trying.) Their eyes meet and there's some sort of facination going on here.

He's such a cute squirrel and, yes, he is a he. lol He just sits or lays on that limb and looks in the window. Sometimes he's there for half an hour or more. That's a long time for squirrels who seem to be always on the go.

I'm not sure he liked having his picture taken, though. He was giving me "the look."

Katie has a history of cross-species crushes. For a while she was enamoured of a little lizard that spent time outside the kitchen window. When he was there she would come and get me and show me that he was there. She would fuss and fuss, looking at him and then looking at me. I think she wanted me to bring him inside. I don't know if she understood my explanation that lizards don't belong in the house. At least she hasn't asked that the squirrel come inside yet. lol

Katie