Willy Nilly Friday Five - September 25, 2020

 Hello & Welcome.

Joining Tom (The Backroads Traveller) for WILLY NILLY FRIDAY FIVE today.

1. While on our walk a few weeks ago this little quail appeared for a brief moment. I managed a couple of quick shots before it scurried off into the blackberry bushes.

 

 

 

2.Our daughter Greta celebrated a birthday this month.  She's pointing to the candles on the cake because the flames would match the color of the candles.

3.Spotted this Praying Mantis looking in our kitchen window (yes I know they need washed) so I went out and took it's picture.

A few days laughter Coleen and her friend found a green one and wanted me to look at it so I took it's picture too.

4.  Our cat, Harley is NOT a lap cat and we are always trying to coax him onto our laps.  Coleen has had the best success.  He actually got up on her lap the other night and let her comb him. (He loves being brushed and combed.)

5.  Finally after all that horrible smoke and haze from the fires it rained.

Bonus shot:  It's time for another baby fix - Little Joelle is growing and we think she is cute as can be.
 

Willy-Nilly Friday and Feline Friday - June 15, 2018

Welcome everyone.  Thank You to everyone who left comments on my (MIA) post from earlier this week.

Life has been so busy the last few months, some good, some not so good but all is well.

It's time for a little Friday Fun so let's join the party.

Tom (The Backroads Traveller) is hosting WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE

 

May flew by so quickly...lots of things going on.

 

 

1.

The annual Ducky Derby was held on May 19th and as usual I purchased my 5 ducks in hopes that one of them would make it to the finish line and I would win a prize.  Alas, once again I did not win.  - Oh well, it's all for a good cause.

 

2.  Hubby celebrated a birthday the next day (May 20) so there was birthday stuff to take care of.  Here he is blowing out those birthday candles.

 



 3. He took a 5 day trip back to ND to watch his oldest granddaughter graduate from high school.  While he was gone I went to the Wildhorse Casino again.  Took my mom along.  We didn't win but we didn't lose all our money either. - Better than that though was that a local store had a promotion that if you bought a $5 and higher Scratch ticket and it was a losing ticket you could put it in a box and have a chance at the end of the month to win free lottery tickets.  Guess what.........

I won!  There were 3 winners drawn.  I won 2nd Prize - A packet of 50, $10 tickets. - We all had fun scratching them off and I ended up winning, $330.00 off the tickets.  I probably had put in about $50 worth of losing tickets but I gained that back plus extra and it was just a lot of fun finding out that I had won and the excitement of seeing if any of the tickets were winners was great.

 

4. Usually you see people walking their dogs but have you ever seen someone walking their.....

 

 



Pet Goats!

 

5.  I wait all year for the local strawberry season to start and so for the last couple of weeks we have been enjoying these lucious berries.

 



 In other news...I finally joined the ranks of Smart Phone owners.  Boy has that been a "learning curse I mean curve" for me!  I've accidentally taken "selfies", dialed my granddaughter while she was in school, called my daughter and didn't say anything because I didn't realized I had called her, hung up on an important call because I pressed a wrong button and the list goes on.

Finally for FELINE FRIDAY

Harley wasn't feeling well yesterday and he spent most of the day sleeping, I caught this unusual pose of him while he was sleeping. 

 

Fond this video while searching for songs about Cellphones and just had to share it. - Hoping I don't become like this.

 



It's Willy-Nilly & Random 5 Friday - April 1, 2016

Welcome!

Good News today (no joke) - Nancy (A Rural Journal) is back bloggoing again and hosting Random 5 Friday again!

Plus Tanya (Around Roanoke) still hosts Willy-Nilly Friday 5 so now there will be twice the random fun to enjoy!

RANDOM 5 FRIDAY:

1.  I may have used this quote before but it's a good one and this is a new photo and since Spring is in the air I couldn't resist sharing these lovely spring blooms with you.

2.

Spotted this group of deer again recently.  They hang out in a small brush area near a bunch of homes.  I never tire of taking pictures of them. 

3. I love frogs and so for my birthday hubby got me a new wind chime.  Isn't it cute!

4.  Did you ever see this episode of Friends?

Well Greta decided to give our cat, Harley a massage the other day with Drum Sticks
He liked it!

 

5.  Our town has recently had problems with Wild Turkey's invading neighborhoods and causing damage to vehicles , property and chasing school children.  They rounded a bunch of them up and released them back in the mountains. - We spotted this group in a field outside of town recently.

 



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                                      Now let's join Tanya for WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE:

1. Spotted this pretty Hot Air ballon the other day (our sky was cloudless - I added the clouds) - This balloon is The Spirit of Walla Walla balloon.

 

 

 

2.  Another shot of the deer (just because they are so pretty)

 

 

 

3. Some fun yard decor we spotted recently.  Gives you something to do with rocks.

 

 

4. 

It's Harley again.  He looks so peaceful here but you should have seen him this morning when we took him to the Vet.  He needed a check-up and he was NOT a "happy camper" - In fact they ended up having to sedate him just to give him his shots and exam.

5.  Finally a street scene here in town:

These are buses (they look like trolley cars) that take people around town.  Pretty neat looking.  Walla Walla use to actually have trolley cars here years and years ago. Now a funny little story:

So yesterday I was driving around and noticed something really "odd" about the guy that was in front of me.  -  He had his window down and was waving his hand around out the window and looked like he was bebopping to some tunes.  Nothing to weird about that but then I noticed that he had his wind shield wipers on.  You might think,
What's weird about that? - Well how about the fact that it was 79 degrees outside and the sun was shining!  I'd say that was pretty Weird!

Have a great day & I hope you've enjoyed all these "random" things.

Also linking to FUN FRIDAY FAVORITES - Hosted by Cath@Home





Monday Musings

It's Monday and the start of a new week.
Just wanted to update everyone who's been praying for us during our Wild Fire in the mountains recently.  As of last night the fire had been updated to 50% contained.  No further buildings have been destroyed and no lives have been lost.  Best news of all.....

It's RAINING!

We had a sudden and brief rainshower here on Friday night but it didn't reach the fire area.

This morning it's rained quite a bit although it's starting to clear off already.  I'm hoping though that the rain reached the fire area to help put that fire completely out.

In the meantime here are some cute cats to share for Mancat Monday.

Captain Cuddles (sleeping)  He wouldn't look up no matter what I tried.  Also the newest member of our "mancat" family,  Bandit.

 This is our oldest "mancat" - Harley

This is the 2nd to youngest of our male cats,  Spooky-boo.

I'll share photos of the girls another day.

Have a great day!

Song-ography - Stray Cat Strut

Joining Kathy (You'll Shoot Your Eye Out) today for SONG-OGRAPHY

I had this photo that I thought was funny and just knew that there was a song that this would work with.  Here is what I came up with.


Stray Cat Strut - By the Stray Cats

                                 "Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy"
                                   I wish I could be as carefree and wild
                                    But I got cat class and I got cat style

Kathy has a (suggested) song but you can also go with your own song and interpretation.  I hope you enjoy mine today.  -  Don't forget to stop in and check out the other participants.

Also please remember to vote in the Caption This Poll on my sidebar.  You can see the post HERE to know what you are voting on.