A SLOW START TO THE WEEK

 

I know how he feels.

While time seems at time to race, it simultaneously seems to creep.

I was up before 6, awake before 5 this morning.

By 10 I'd dined on the last scrap of a loaf of cheese bread, a slice of orange left over from a sweet potato dish SWMBO prepared, a handful of big red grapes, and consumed a couple of cups of coffee.

I'd done a small load of laundry and remade my bed.

I'd washed a tiny amount of dishes from the night before.

I'd read some from a recent Arizona Highways magazine.

I'd browsed the news on the Internet and read some emails.

I'd done my daily 10 minute bask in the sun.

I'd contemplated a necessary trip to the public library.

Maybe it's not such a slow start.

Maybe it's time for a nap.

(yawn)

NOT SO WILD KINGDOM!

 So I was out in the back yard a little bit ago, watering our honeysuckle vine.

Suddenly I spied a intruder visitor.

It fluttered closer and closer and came up to about a foot from me.

Amazingly it did not then dart away.

It stayed, perhaps getting some moisture from the spray from the hose.

And then it landed on a perch, again only about a foot from me and began to preen.

Cautiously I got my phone from my pocket and turned on the camera.

And here's what I got.

You can see from my shadow in the first couple of shots how close it was to me and it showed no fear or alarm.

As it sat on the twig and continued to preen, I cautiously switched the camera to video.

Let's see how that worked.

Now I know it's Mother's Day but does this look like the face of anyone's mother . . let alone a hummingbird's?

Happy Mothers' Day!

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THE FRIDAY FUNNIES

 I know, I know, you keep wondering, you keep hoping.

Isn't he tired of this crap?

Won't he please quit?

Is he going to live forever?

I know.

The answer to all three questions is: Nope!

Wait a minute.

Change that answer to question number three.

Let's just get on with it, shall we?

Heh-heh, okay Gentle Readers and Stone Throwers, that's it for another week.

Try to be good to yourselves now and have a spectacular weekend.

And always remember to keep laughing!

Here, kitty-kitty . . .

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CAKE

 Good old Trader Joe.

We were in his local outpost about a week ago and I saw and quickly whisked into my cart a Meyer Lemon Cake Mix with Lemon Icing!

This morning I made it.

I mean, a lemon cake with lemon icing.

What can go wrong?

What can BE wrong about that?

Nothin'!

JUST CHECKING

 SWMBO and I (mostly her) were out pulling some weeds in the yard the other day when this little rascal climbed up on the wall as if to see what we were up to.

He stayed there, not two feet away from me, long enough to pose for this picture.

He's just one of many such lizards that live on and about our property.

The boss says she's glad to see them because they eat bugs and maybe they'll keep the mosquito population down this summer.

I enjoy watching them as they scamper about and stop frequently to "do their push-ups."