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.







Good Fences #100 Curlicue Cute

Welcome!

It's time for some GOOD FENCES hosted by Theresa,
(The Run-a-round Ranch Report).  Can you believe it's #100 already!  How cool is that.


For today's fence I'm featuring a fence I found while out on a walk last week during one of the nicer days we had - It wasn't raining!

This fence had a really fun feature to it....See Dictionary Definition below:
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curl·i·cue

ˈkərlēˌkyo͞o/

noun

noun: curlicue; plural noun: curlicues; noun: curlycue; plural noun: curlycues; noun: curly-cue; plural noun: curly-cues

1. a decorative curl or twist in calligraphy or in the design of an object.

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This fence had lots of those curlicue's.

 

Here is a look at more of the fence...

 

Can you see that bench way over on the other side with some grass growing behind it? - At the end you'll see a better view of that grass.

 

 

This view features some of the curlicues and you can see a darker fence (the neighbors on the other side of the fence) in the background.

 

Here is a close-up view of one of the curlicue's.

 

 

Finally the grass from the neighbors yard featured in the 2nd shot.

 

You can still see this fence in the background.

 

I thought those curlicue's were really cute. - I hope you've enjoyed this lovely wrought iron fence.  Don't forget to check out the other great fences.

 

Have a wonderful day.

Tuesday Treasures

I've been hoping to join in with Tom (The Backroads Traveller) for his new meme:  Tuesday's Treasures for a few weeks now but just haven't managed until today.

I just have one photo today and I'm not sure what year or make this Van is but it does seem to be fairly old and I'm sure it's a "treasure" to whoever it belongs to.  Plus I think it's pretty cool looking myself.  I spotted it while out walking one afternoon and just had to take a picture of it.

Please check out the other "treasures" by visiting Tom's blog and clicking on the participants entries.  -  Have a great day!

Good Fences #99 - Soccer Match

 



Welcome everyone. - It's time for GOOD FENCES
hosted by Theresa from The Run-a-round Ranch Report.





Today I'm sharing some fence shots taken last summer.

My great Nephew Andrew plays soccer and I went to watch one of his matches.

In this shot you see him and his mother, my niece (Shelby).  I'm not sure what Andrew was looking at but there is a nice tall chain link fence in this shot.

 Here you can see him in action during the game.

Now in this next shot you'll see some of his team mates playing and if you look closely you'll see they have an audience watching the game.

 

 

I cropped this next shot so you can see the audience a little better....

 

 

It would appear that even doves enjoy a good soccer match!

Oh and let's not forget that there were some other animals watching the game too......

From across the field a doe and her 2 fawns took in the action as well.

Have a great day & don't forget to check out the other great fences.







Good Fences #98 - Corgi's and Calico's

Hi!  Hope you've all been having a good week.

It's time for some GOOD FENCES hosted by Theresa from The Run-a-round Ranch Report.

 

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While out looking for some fences one day last year  Coleen & I spotted this sight dog by a fence and we just had to take a photo to share.

 

 

In the next shot I just cropped the above photo so you could see the dog and the sign a little better.

 

I wonder how good that security system works.

We looked around for a bit and then as we were walking back to our car I happened to notice that the Corgi had been joined by company......

Isn't that sweet little Calico cat just adorable.  They really looked cute together there by that gate/fence.

 

Don't forget to stop in and check out all the other Good Fences.  Have a wonderful day.