This little guy was on my screen door. He let me take his picture then flew off. Quite a beauty I thought. Nice wing spread and great patience for the fumbling photographer. I don’t know if he’s a Fire Fly or a Dragon Fly or what. I think he’s beautiful though. Thank God he didn’t fly off the screen into my hair and cause me to run screaming like a girl. Oh wait, I am a girl. Still, you see my point. It would have been really an ugly moment. Ugly like the day I stood on the chair screaming because there was a mouse in my living room. I seriously considered calling 911 but thought better of it. Bella, the huntress, abandoned me that day. I guess she thought it was nap time so she left me with Gracie, the non-huntress. So there I was on the chair with a mouse in the house. What option did I have but to call 911 or stay stranded on the chair? Actually, Grace rose to the occasion and killed the mouse. I was stunned. I was still on the chair for awhile because ya know the little bugger could have been faking his untimely death. Finally my roommate got home. I called him back, still standing on the chair, and had him remove the carcass. I came down from the chair and said, “We must never speak of this again.”
Okay, on to a more pleasant subject. Here are some of Cappy Crunch’s toys in the yard.
And yes, he even has a little sailor duck that squeaks. Unfortunetly this photo is a bit out of focus but I had nothing else to blog about so I’m tossing y’all crumbs….blurry little crumbs.
For other stuff in my yard click here. They’re mostly bug photos, cicadas and spiders and spider webs and a brown manid. Click only if you have mad love for bugs.
Austin
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A chair? Mice climb things. I’d have been dangling from the ceiling fan or something. In my area we don’t have many mice. Know why? Because we have snakes. Yes, Snakes. They can slither up all kinds of things. I just reach for the shotgun when I see one of those.
I believe my mice phobia is about equal with my dog phobia. When my firstborn was a baby, the apartment was overrun with mice. I used to see them darting out from behind the fridge; they even made it into the drawer where I kept baby bottle nipples. I know this because I’d go to get one and the nipple would be gnawed off.
The ultimate was discovering them under our bed. This I discovered by stashing my Hostess Ding Dongs under there one night. When I went for a little treat the next day, there were teeth marks in the foil.
So yeah, I get why you were on a chair. We discovered after some time that the neighbors were filthy, and left their overflowing garbage can on the other side of the building open, without a lid.
Hi Austin-Your really made my skin crawl about the critters and stuff. Yuck. I would have been stuck on that chair until my husband came home. Anyway, I did not really have the time to negotiate my way to leave a comment in the proper place. I love you blog and your courage and ability to share. I want to thank you for taking the time to come and visit me. Please come back again. I will be returning here especially to check everything out and find out more about you. I really appreciated and found your feedback helpful. By the way, how did you find my blog? I am going to add you to my blogroll. Have a great weekend…no critters invited!!!
CC
Oh my, oh my! A mouse. Wow. I have a cat that runs away from them and stands on the chair. Leaves me to find something to do with them. OK, I live in the outback. We have mice here too. I don’t have to much trouble with them but once a desperate mother to be found her way into the dryer vent, worked her way to the lint trap, chewed through it and started a nest for baby mice in my dryer. Well, when I opened the dryer door just in time to see her disappear into the vent, it was time to eradicate a mouse. I turned the dryer on and ran outside just in time to see her drop our of the vent and run to cover under some leaves.
I fixed the lint trap, cleaned out the dryer with clorex wipes and thought that the mouse was gone forever. Guess what! She got into the vent again, chewed through the new lint trap and remade that nest in my dryer. Once again I opened the door just in time to see her vanish down the vent again. Again, I turned on the dryer and ran outside to see her drop out of the vent and run to cover under leaves. It was time for the BIG GUNS! I got a wire cage cover for the outside vent, replaced the lint trap and voila! No more mouse. Instead she made her nest in the motor casing of the lawn tractor and chewed through the electrical wiring of the tractor. And life goes on.
You got a very lovely shot of a beautiful dragonfly (a good guy).
Oh that reminds to tell you that I haven’t forgotten about the pictures I said I would share with you (my bug/critter pictures).
I think that would be a dragon fly in the first image.
The second (black and white) is actually rather nice. Isn’t interesting how making a photo b&w can make it look artsy and impressive? Or is that just me?