nature – Page 2 – Decisions for my Family

I pulled this image from Facebook today and after the chuckle it gave me realized it probably was time to start to batten down the hatches. Once the normal running of Saturday was over we secured the patio furniture and loose items from the backyard. Not really sure what to expect, many people hear that the hurricane is only a cat1 and weak but for where we are hearing that it is an extreme “Nor’easter ” can strike much more fear than most recent hurricanes. They tend to hang around for hours even days and carry tons of water.

Only time will tell. The Governor has issued mandatory evacuations for the coastal areas by 4pm tomorrow which means my sister and her dog will be moving in by the evening. We can talk about her later since she does not read this anyway :-)! As for what happens after that, well guess we will all stay tuned.

Fingers till crossed.

With the warmth of the Spring upon us,tis the season for little birdie love. We have birds nests in everywhere. For the most part not a problem. The girls and I are keeping an eye on a cute little group of babies that the mother kindly put low enough for us to peek on. She does not seem to mind our interest as we do not do anything other than peek and say “how cute!”

Now, across the street is a totally different story! The neighbors seem to have a rather cranky new mother. Every time they so much as dare to walk out the front door of the house the bird goes into attack mode. If we stand out on our own lawn for more than a few minutes it will fly across and swoop down at our heads as if a little fighter pilot . With each passing day it seems to get worse…we are all finding it very hard to live in peace with this flying little soul. I have never seen anything like it. We can not even figure out where the nest is so it is not like she is really defending anything. Hopefully the family will be moving on soon!

Last weekend the girls, dog and I were sitting out by the pool enjoying a fire when we heard “quacking”. This is not totally unusual so we did not think too much of it until it seemed to be getting closer and louder. Suddenly 4 ducks landed in the pool. In the six years that we have had the pool NEVER have I seen that! The girls and I all screamed at the same time “DUCKS” (as if they were unaware what they were). I am sure we were a real sight jumping around screaming at these 4 little ducks . This did not seem to faze them in the least. I yelled at the dog to get the ducks out of the pool. Honestly she seemed as shock as we were at the sudden invasion from the sky. Once she started to head into the water the ducks wisely moved on.