Yard, Gardens, Birds and Critters

 I am up at 5:05 a.m. My mind is working overtime and I figured I might as well get up, let Lacy out, put the birdseed out and make the coffee. I walk into the kitchen and start Jim's coffee, grab a couple of the bird feeders, open the door and head out on the deck with Lacy and pretty much stop in my tracks. There on a 2 x 4 post of the deck was a Raccoon. Not a real large one, I am guessing just a youngster, maybe, as stubborn as it was a teenager.  I tried to get Lacy back in the house, but she totally ignored me, never saw the Raccoon, and even with her sharp nose, didn't catch the scent either. I was amazed! Down the steps she went to the back yard, more likely the concrete pad, to do her business. The Raccoon and I were pretty much just looking at each other. I decided to go in the house and go get my camera! I really didn't think the Raccoon would still be there but, it was. I took a couple of pictures, with my flash up, and the flash didn't go off! I finally mov

 I just wanted to share, with those that aren't on Facebook, what I have been up to. Still taking in the birdseed at night at the house, except when I forget, or not at home until late and hubby forgets to bring it in and I don't think to ask if he did it! By then it's late, I'm tired and really don't care! Well, that's not really true! I care but I am tired, so I don't think to ask if it's in! Ahh, the two way street!   Now, in the last couple of weeks, my neighbor and I have been walking. We have walked on our street, we have walked at one of the parks, we have walked downtown many times. The latest has been at Prairie Garden Trust. This is a place you can just get lost in nature. It's all around you. The owners have turned old fescue fields back into the Prairie Fields they used to be. They had help from Mervin Wallace who runs the Missouri Wildlife Nursery in Brazito, MO.  I sound like an advertisement and that wasn't the purpose of this blog

  This One Makes Three By Mary J Williams © I went to take a shower I didn’t want company There is another cricket In the tub I see How do they get in there? Why don’t they fly out? There is no food around Of that, I have no doubt I am as naked as can be I grab the cricket in my hand March him to the door Throw him, don’t care where he lands I don’t want to see another Other crickets, do not come in There is a toilet close by Flush, and you go down in the spin.