Category: Florida

Dishes

My neighbor moved to an apartment and will be traveling quite a bit, so I’m feeding her outside cat.

The kitty’s name is ‘Princess’ and she comes to the food and water dishes… which is amazing to me, since we spent years yelling at her to get off/away from our vehicles.

I wanted to know what else showed up to the food and water, so used an old wildlife camera.

Princess

But there are so many other creatures who frequent the buffet. Blue Jays are the usual suspects. Dirty birds! Wish I could find a way to stop them.

Other cats, including a chubby tiger.

And a young possum. He spends quite a lot of time at the trough, and is the only critter I’ve seen drinking!

He’s grown a bit lately but still waddles. Couple of weeks ago he was so off-balance with those big feet (he’s growing into them) walking was comical. I thought he’d fall with every step!

Ah, well. Life goes on.

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Respite

After a week of darkness and rain, last night’s sunset was startling. It’s dark and rainy again today, but last night made up for it….

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Hot

Our A/C went out yesterday but since the weather is SO bad, our guy can’t replace the appropriate part. I’m drugging myself tonight; last night was bad enough.

The good news? The rain is keeping the temperature down. It’s 82 in the house right now and I want to scream. But… at least it’s not 98 in the shade.

Can you even see Florida for the mess?
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A Futile Battle

Picnic table bonus: potting!

I have a gift for planting the exact wrong thing in the exact wrong place. To wit: Seabreeze bamboo. I thought something in that space for shade would be wonderful, not realizing that the bamboo would grow 30 feet tall and almost as wide.

The picture indicates work to cut it back/thin it out, done over several days… because early mornings and late evenings are best if one doesn’t wish to pass out from the heat.

I stopped here because reality dawned: The thing will be right back to it’s previous bulk within a month. Ah, well. (Another way to say “F*^% it.”)

I miss Daisy.

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Virtually

Yes, I go to the beach every morning. On my computer. Pictured is Pompano Beach, 9 miles east of us… and of course we don’t get there often enough.

Funny thing… It’s spring break and since the kids were kicked out of Dade county I thought they’d be up here… but it doesn’t seem to be popular.

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Sun Girl

I told the yard guy to forgo mowing in the back this time because… well, I love it. Weeds and all. Maybe the weeds are the best reason to lounge outside among the bees gathering pollen.

Badger seems to like it, bees and all.

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Weirdness

Okay, this is a bit odd. Same sky, just pivoted a bit. The tree on the right is also visible on the second photo.

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