Garden Thursday

 Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday. Right now we are having a wonderful stretch of fall weather. Sunny, warm but not hot and not humid either. We all are loving it!

First about the kittie we have seen. Haven't seen it since BUT mum put out crunches and they are disappearing. However mum hasn't seen who is actually eating them. She sat most of yesterday afternoon and no takers. She went to make dinner and take out the trash for pickup. She checked later, yep, all gone!

A few fall flowers, Sedum, a few final blooms on the cone flowers and some variety of asters. 

Since it is nice mum is slowly working her way through cutting back the garden. This didn't get done last fall since she waited so late and then broked her ankle. She isn't waiting for a hard freeze this year like she usually does. 

We got a very slight frost on early Monday AM. Just barely can see it on the grass, but a bit of ice on the bird bath and you can see it on the roof of the house next door. 

Plus a purrty tree just down the street!

Stay safe, stay healthy, wear a mask. VOTE!

Tuesday This and That

 Feetsball Report

WooHoo, Packers win! Unbeaten and going into the bye week next week. Coolio, Four and Oh! ARodg and company looked good even though they were missing a few key players. 

You can see me sitting on mum's lap during the game. Plus she was working on the blankie and she got it all done except weaving in the beginning and end strips. 

In other news we saw the kittie again yesterday. It was getting close to dark and I suddenly got on alert from sitting on mum's lap. I took off to the back big windows to check it out. First mum tried to get her flashy box working to get a pic, but she couldn't get it going. Plus she did go out to see if she could see it. And she was nice and put out some crunchies. We will check in the morning to see if it was eaten. Although we won't know who ate it. 

So that is about it for our update!

Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear your mask. VOTE

Mini-ManCat Monday

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it gets there. - Agnes Repplie

Speaking of kittens, we haven't seen the kitten again. Mum and I have been sitting by the back yard and looking. We see lots of sqwerlsl but no kitten. Hoping they found their way home and are staying inside where it is safe. 

Not much happening here cuz mum doesn't got out much as usual. Doing her inside work and outside work. Staying away from people physically but reaching out by calls, emails and such. She has been keeping the rest of the family entertained with silly pictures from the innerwebs. 

Mum doesn't watch much live moving picture box these days. If she records stuff then watches them she can fast forward through all of the polly-tick ads. 

Feetsball Report

I don't have one! The Pack doesn't play until tonight and mum didn't watch any of the games yesterday either. The only team that matters to us is The Pack. 

Please stay safe, stay healthy and wear your masks!

Caturday

 HiYa Ducky here. Happy First Caturday of TockTober! There will be a horsie race this afternoon, The Preakness, usually run in May. Me and mum will be watching. 

Mum notice this little moth on the curtain yesterday. She thought she would try to get it outside but then got bizzy doing other stuff. 

Later in the day it moved a little bit and I noticed it. You can see me getting ready to check it out.

The mum got into the moovie mode and caught the action! 

I didn't catch it and neither me or mum has seen it since. So it has to be somewhere in the house, we just don't know where!

Mum has been bizzy with outside chores. She got out a bunch of the fevver feeders for the foods that they need during the cold weather. Still has some stuff to put out but she can wait with that until it gets really cold out. 

So mum will be doing chores again tomorrow, reading and yeah, the usual crochet stuff. I think I will take some nice long naps!

Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear your mask.

Garden Thursday

 Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday, plus welcome to TockTober! A month we use to remember the late grate Derby! He sure loved to show off his back side and mum took lots of pics of it!

Out in the garden, we had a kitten run through the yard! It was chasing a sqwerl and about the same color as the sqwerl. Mum was sitting inside and saw the chasing and didn't realize it was a kitten doing the chasing at first. She came out to check on the kitten but it took off through the plants next to the house. Mum didn't notice a collar, so we are worried that a new resident of the area is out on the lose. Stay safe little one. 

In garden news, we have a few new flowers finally from the gerber daisy plants. We haven't had flowers in a long time. We may not get many new flowers as it will be cold later in the week and things may freeze. 

Mum is getting more the the fevver feeders out for them. We are seeing lots more goldy finches this fall. Mum needs to get out the suet feeders, peanut feeders and the seed cakes too. It will be time to tkae the hummer feeder down, haven't seen any in the past week. Once this sugar water batch is gone, that will be it for this year. 

Thanks for the visit. Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear your mask. VOTE!

Mini-ManCat Monday

The internet was invented specifically for displaying pictures of one's cat.

You got that right! Not very many people would know me if there wasn't the inner webs for mum to show me off. Plus Derby who came before. Plus I wouldn't know any of you guys either. 

Mum says thanks for the nice words on her blankie making. It helps keep her out of trouble! Plus I like to sit on her lap to get my loves and in the second pic you can see  her latest blankie she is working on now. Good she had it to keep her hands bizzy during the feetsball game. 

Feetsball Report

The Pack - WooHoo! The Pack beat down the Saints in NOLA and are unbeaten. Scored another 37 points but for the first game didn't get over 40 points. So this week we played on Sunday night, next week we get to play on Monday night. Mum is happy she doesn't work so she can stay up and watch the games. 

Mum has a sort of bizzy week. Meeting with her money man today to discuss green papers. Also going to meet up a long time furiend for lunch this week too. Otherwise, more crochet and book reading. For me, sitting on mum, getting treats and naps. 

Have a great week! 

Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear a mask. VOTE!

Caturday

 HiYa Ducky here, happy Caturday! Me and mum are looking forward to a nice weekend. The weather guessers have been doing OK so nice weather for having open window. So at least one more nice day, then a chance of rain on Sunday. Next week the cooler weather will be back. Mum won't mind, she likes it cooler. 

Mum has been working on crow-shay and buying more yarns. Sheesh lady, don't you have enuf? Heck you didn't even have enuf room in the closet to put the new stuff you bought inside it. Me doing the quality control on this blankie. Finished blankie shown below. 

Me inspecting the closet, you can see some of the completed blankies waiting to be taken to the food pantry to give out. Plus the bags of hats are behind me. 

Here is her stash, plus a bunch more in a bag laying on top of the blankies. Oh well, it keeps her out of trouble and entertained while she stays home for the most part. She can't read all day long either. 

Here is the finished blankie. Lots of people like mum's pic on FaceBooks, really liked the colors. First time mum has used this brand and color of yarn. Oh noes, she  has another store to raid for yarns.

Just chilling on the tower, nice place to be since the big windows that go to the floor are there and when open you get a nice breeze and fresh airs. At least today should be quieter, the naybors had the tree guys in yesterday to take down a huge tree. Took them all day and it was noisy. 

The Pack doesn't play until Sunday night. Mum will have to find stuff to do on during the afternoon. Guess she can read like she normally does, or maybe watch a moovie. 

Have a good weekend everyone. 

Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear a mask. 

Garden Thursday

 Hello and Welcome to Garden Thursday. Plus welcome to the autumnal season, better known as fall. We are seeing signs of fall here and mum took some pics near home to show that. 

This is a tree that is near where mum has to turn to get to our street. Just showing a bit of red. The tree below is on the corner where mum has to turn to get on our street. 

Then one tree on the other side of the street on the corner as well, we don't have trees that turn nice red colors, more golden. 

When mum went to get the paper outside the other day she noticed a robin egg on the ground. It is hard to see in the first pic as it is near some of the fallen leaves. 

Closeup and you can see it now, so mum took a pic of the nest and you can see that something has gotten at the egg. Mum thinks it might be a sqwerl. 

Mum decided it was time to get the nest down for good. She found the egg that was in the nest on Sunday was now down on the ledge of the stone on the house. 

Mum got out one of her garden trowels so she could reach high enuf to loosen the nest from the light and the siding on the house. So you can see it is gone. Mum needs to clean out the inside of the light fixture as there is a bit of dried grass inside by the light. 

Mum set the nest on the ledge by the metal monster room. Not sure what she will do with it, it might just get added to the compost pile. 

That is it for now. Stay safe, stay healthy and please wear a mask. 

Mini-ManCat Monday

Your secret is always safe with a cat.

Ooooh, secrets! Yep, me and mum have some, but I won't tell! Neither will she! Nice to know we got each others backs!

Nice weekend, lots of good naps. here I am in the late afternoon. Our sunshine is good but at times it gets sorta filtered out by smoke from the fires. You can sorta see the orangey color on the bed and me. It has been a cooler weekend, so lots of warm naps, sitting on mum and even sleeping with mum. 

Mum got a fishy fry on Friday as she was going by the place on the way back from dropping off more of the yard waste. She said it was good and it has been a long time since she got a fishy fry. 

Yes, mum shared some with me! I loves getting fishy fry fish when mum has it. Just a few bites here and there, mum ate the rest of the fishy and saved some of the fries. 

Showing off some of mum's crow-shay hats. She counted up all that she made in the past year. It doesn't take her long to make a hat. Usually can get done in one evening. So if she sits to watch a game of basey ball or feetsball, she can get a hat done. She used up all of her excess yarns to make the hats. Now she has to work on blankies so she has yarns to make hats again. 

Wanna know how many hats she made in total? 86! That is a lot of heads that will be warmer this winter. Mum will drop them off at the food pantry soon so that they can give them out if people needs something warm for their heads. 

Feetsball Report

The Pack - done good again this week. They started off slow but came on like gangbusters later. Scored over 40 points again this game. That is good! Mum thought it looked weird with no peoples in the stands. No girls in bikinis, no guys with their beer bellies hanging out. Piped in cheers, but still strange. 

So a good week ahead, so you all have a good week too. 

Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear your mask. 

Caturday - Pirate Day

 HiYa Ducky here, Happy Meow Like a Pirate Day. Arrrgh, ye better be minding yourselves or you will be walking the plank!

A pick of Angel Derby with his pirate patch. He was a mighty fine pirate cat and the captain of the good ship Sassycat! 

Aye, we be sailing in calm waters today. Nice to enjoy ourselves and have a bit of grog and enjoy ourselves on this day. 

Aye, I be doing my bit to find the treasure or at least few extra treats from mum. I know she will be easily purr-sueded to hand over the treats and not wanting to walk the plank!

Be like a pirate, wear your mouth patch and stay healthy. 

Garden Thursday

 All of us are enjoying the weather. The only thing is we aren't getting bright sunshine cuz lots of smoke in the air from the fires out west. 

Mum has been trying to keep the fevvers happy. She always keeps some foods out all year long but not lots but this time of year as the natural foods gets less. So cuz of that we are seeing more fevvers. 

First is the goldyfinches. First the boy goldy fevvers are showing it is fall. They are molting over to the winter color. 

Here you can see one little guy around the head and back getting all drab from the bright yellow. Mum usually doesn't catch the fall change over, but she catches the spring one as it is one of the sign of spring coming. 

Here is a whole bunch of goldy finches on the feeder sack with nyger seed. Mum had a bunch from afore stored but they didn't eat. So mum tossed all of it and got some fresh. Now they are eating. Guess the other stuff got old. 

Then we got a visit from Blue Jay. We often hear them but during the summer they usually aren't at the feeder. Now they are back and mum feels she can put out the big in the shell peanuts. 

Now that is has cooled off mum needs to get cracking at the garden shut down. Start early and get it over with for the year. Hopefully not mishaps like last year with breaking an ankle. 

By next week fall with officially be here, feeling like fall now. 

Stay safe, stay healthy, please wear a mask.