12 Oakdale

I am having so much fun with the trail cam Grant gave me a couple of years ago for my birthday. Or was it Christmas? Neither of us require presents, but we are pleased when we find one that is just perfect to give or receive.  The first thing I saw was our neighbors walking through our yard looking for their dog. After that, it seemed the plants waving in the wind were about all. I sort of abandoned it. I moved it to the front yard. Meh. But then it dawned on me to put one of the motion activated solar path lights near it for more night pictures. I attached it low on a papaya tree next to the vegetable beds. Lots of pictures of my knees. During the day, a juvenile little blue heron makes its rounds as does an adult one. Then the night pictures starting happening. Bunnies galore. Early morning and evening, it was bunnies. A black cat with a collar that I’ve never seen before. The rear end of Cooper, a dog from down the street whose owner doesn’t seem to understand lea...

I am so dang tired of hurting. My shoulders, my hands, my butt. Enough already. I know this too shall pass, patience is a virtue, blah, blah, blah. On the other hand, I am making progress against the weeds. I’ve finished with the front plot to the north of the driveway, only getting bitten by fire ants once, when I foolishly stepped in just to cut out another maypop vine. Only took about 3 seconds, but long enough for ants to attack. I was wearing flip flops. By the time I’d flung them off, 5 ants managed to bite me in a line up the top of my foot. One little bugger got me between my toes. Obviously, no, I will never learn. The weeds did get a break when I took Friday morning off so Grant and I could attend a Canine Companion doggie graduation where friends and eight other people got their new service dog. The dogs had had 6 months of intense training at a beautiful campus just 20 minutes north of us in Calcona. Our friends spent 2 weeks there being trained to know how to use all that ...