Willy Nilly Friday 5 & Fun Friday Favorites, February 19, 2016

 Joining Tanya (Around Roanoke) and Cath (Cath @ Home) today for WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE and FUN FRIDAY FAVORITES



 

1.  Don't they look peaceful and sweet.  The one on the left is Miss Dottie and she is nearly 16 years old.  The one on the right is Harley.  He'll turn 8 in late April.

 

 

Well last Thursday evening they were anything but peaceful and sweet.  I was watching television when all of a sudden the female ran into the living room followed by the male who then proceed to viciously attack her.  I tried to get him off of her and he bit my arm and then cornered her and begin attacking her again.  I yelled for my granddaughter upstairs to come help and she also got bit by Harley but I was able to grab Dottie up and get her away from him.  We ended up having to keep them separated for 2 full days from each other.  What caused this strange bizarre behavior?  Well it's called,  Redirected Feline Agression.  You can read about it HERE: 
Let me tell you it's pretty scary when it happens.  Thankfully after a couple of days they settled back into their normal sweet selves again. 


2.  I went out to look for a few signs of spring the other day and spotted several of these Water Stridders (we call them water skippers) in the little stream just a few houses away from where we live.  Wikipedia has a lot of information on them that is quite interesting. 

3.  Coleen and I drove out past the area where we spotted the deer last year and low and behold there were a couple in a field.  We stopped to watch them and before long those two were joined by others.  These are White-Tail deer.  You can read more about them HERE:

This is one of the last shots I took of them before we left.  There are 8 deer in this photo.  Note the one on the far right....(taking a dump).  Just for fun here is my favorite Far Side Cartoon....

4.  On my walk the other day looking for fences I spotted this sweet scene:

A pair of Mallard Ducks in some shrubbery.  Another sign spring is on the way as I've seen several pairs of ducks or 2 males & a female together already this month.  These two were across the street from out local park which is home to lots of ducks and other birds.  Apparently you can find a political cartoon: Mallard Fillmore which features a mallard duck.  Is nothing sacred anymore!

5.  I spotted this fun little figurine while out on my walk as well.

I'm not sure what the purpose of the two stacked rocks on it's back is but it made for a fun photo subject.  If you like goats here are a few blogs you can visit to enjoy goat antics and such.

1. Green Eggs & Goats
2. Eden Hills
3. Baby Goats and Friends

Well that's it for this week.  I hope you've enjoyed your visit.  Have a great weekend.







Willy Nilly Friday 5 and some cat art

Hi and Happy Friday.





It's time to join Tanya from (Around Roanoke) for WILLY-NILLY FRIDAY FIVE

 1. It's a balmy day here today with the temperature being 67 outside. I woke up this morning and discovered our van was covered in a film of dust from the wind last night and then the dampness from our rains just caked it on.  That thing needs to go to the Car Wash!  More rain is on the way though so it should wash it all off.

Last week one morning I discovered frosty looking feathers on the van windshield.  I took this photo inside the van and you can just see the outline of the brown fence behind where I park.

2.  Our Postmaster is (nuts).  He wants to change mail delivery to a centralized location where we'd all have to have boxes somewhere down the street and walk to them to get out mail.  Of course he can't do this without our permission and believe me I will say NO WAY if it comes to that.  In the meantime they are trying to raise funds to renovate the Post Office,  I don't think that this news is going to gain them many supporters.

This is a photo I took last fall of our Post Office.

3.  Our state is (nuts).  There was an article in the paper the other night about wanting to do away with Daylight Savings time.  You can read about it here:  Personally I like Daylight Savings time myself.  I enjoy the day being longer in the summer and quite frankly I don't have any problem with the sleeping thing that they seem so concerned about.  Any thoughts on this?

This has nothing to do with daylight savings but as I was out walking a little yesterday I happened to spot this mossy area in the alley I was walking through and thought it looked pretty and refreshing.

4.  The sun was out for about an hour yesterday!  I was trying to take a nap (shhhh I know, naps are for "old" people) when I noticed the sun so I got up and grabbed the camera and went for a little walk.  I spied this creepy little fellow in a small flower bed and snapped it's picture.

I also spotted these guys in a little creek nearby.

5.  Yesterday Coleen and I stopped by the local Humane Society to look at the cats they have there.  We spent about an hour there playing with the cats and the one kitten they had.  I learned that they are now a "no-kill" shelter which made me quite happy.  I would have loved to have brought a couple of the cats home with me but with 6 of our own already I had to just enjoy petting the kitties there and then going home.

Joining in for FELINE ART here with this watercolor version of the photo I used in yesterday's post.  You can view the original photo of Snickers there.

Below is the piece I used this same photo on in yesterdays post.  I thought it was worth including here today as well.

  Click to enlarge.

Have a Great Weekend and thanks for stopping by.