Ducks in the pond giggles

 I went to open the door to backyard, intending to water the potted plants with the hose. Behold,  Mama and Papa Duck were swimming and smiling and eating bugs, and enjoyed our 80 degree weather, the first 2 weeks of January. 

We love them, Beau will not bother them, but we don't want a flock of them on the pool deck doing you know what. 

In the past I just stomp my feet and make shhhhhh shhhh shhhh sounds and they lift up and  out like beautiful helicopters and are gone.

For some reason, I decided to see if I could spook them with the hose,  I turned it on low, like fat rain drops and they LOVED it. The male stood up

on his bottom, and danced in the rain with wings going back and forth like this one.

this is an old photo of a duck in a pond, that I took years ago.

The female swam round and round and I just let them enjoy the fake rain. 

She bathed and swam and they were so happy I hated to turn it off.

Poor sweeties have not seen rain in years. 

after they had fun and they were strutting around the pool deck and yard. and were picking up food, and the male came up with

one of my pet lizards in his mouth, about 3 inch long.

I said If you are eating my pets, shhhhhh shhhh shhhh and they were gone.

I did enjoy their show and our conversations. I also talk to the lizards, a lot!

Over the years we have had many stop in for a while, including one with 8 Babies.. Photos taken in 2023 in our pool, I need a DSLR

Nature Friday with Rosy and Sunny at Living the LLB Life    https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

First Time Ever in 81 years

 

I SAW THE BLOOD MOON ON MARCH 3, 2026 AT 6 AM, THE PHOTO ABOVE IS FROM OUR LOCAL CHANNEL. We were watching the early news and it said the eclisspe will be in the next hour and gave the time. I stood and watch this sight, all photos from NBC 6 South Florida all I had was my cell phone. what I saw was exactly like this. Wow.

At 3 am when I let Beau out the moon was huge, white and Full, then the white looked like a sliver, like the one the cow jumped over in the poem. then as it turned it go like the one above and by the end I was blood red.

Too Tired To Tango Tuesday

 

I was MIA yesterday because my To-Do list for the day was a LOT.

The first hour of my day is always one hour to get through the routine of getting Bob and Beau up.

Took out Garbage Bin and Yard Waste to curb, after filling them. 

Publix for Eggs, Walmart did not bring them.

Home Depot, AC filters

Back to the Eye Doc to pick up frames and get a refund of $381 for a new lens, which came out of our account. The girl did not catch that my insurance only pays for the lens every 2 years. I have to wait 6 months. She needed my debit card to be refunded.

The thing is.. Monday when I drove the Kia to the eye doctor, the check oil light came on. I knew it was fine, I just got an oil change 3 months ago. Still, I had to check the oil. I have never opened the hood to any of our cars. Bob is a retired auto mechanic so no need to.  I struggled to open it, and could not find the latch,

I came inside and watched a video on HOW to OPEN the HOOD of a 2007 Kia, was able to open it, but remembered the hood doesn't stay up, has to be propped open, found a stick, tried it, no deal, I had to flatten one end, and could not find a saw, so used the limb lopper to do that, found the dip stick and checked the oil which was fine. Now the stick rides in the back with the wheel chair, and the stick has to be used on propping that up because the last time the wheel chair was lifted out by ME, it would not stay up. 

I did the three visits, in 1 hour 20 minutes, after driving, East/North to doctor, west/South to Publix, South to home Depot and North to home.. I got all 4 and of course ran into construction traffic South and North.

Returned home at 10:30 and did two loads of clothes/towels,  

Called Spectrum to see why our bill went up 30 dollars, got it rebundled so its only up 3 dollars.

Paid all the bills, that should have been done on Monday.

In between all this took Beau out twice, Bob off you know what twice, Made lunch and collapsed in bed at 1 and slept till 3 when Bob was calling for help and said, were you that much asleep? I have been yelling for 30 minutes.

I answered " I have been on my feet since 3:15 which is 10 hours... and fed the dog and and took him out again.... when Beau goes out I follow every step he takes to make sure he doesn't eat it.... most of my days are like this, I will be erratic in posting/commenting. I typed all this to let everyone know why I am to tired to tango (blog) most days, each day I have been lopping branches off the powder puff tree to give it the annual pruning. I can only do 10 per day, still got 5 more days.

I did get a handyman number from the eye doctor. Hope it works out.