Today’s day was just so pretty and crisp in its winterness, robin egg blue sky, clear and cloudless. Father Sky didn’t use any of his pastel sticks to draw clouds, letting the blue sky canvas enjoy its unmarred blueness. I looked for the moon but he didn’t stay up too late today. My yard was…

Oldest brother brought the raccoon trap back this afternoon and I’ve baited it with two marshmallows. One of the raccoons climbed the bird feeder pole near the lady den window last night and emptied one of the feeders. Greased the bird feeder pole late afternoon so if he or she is out wandering around for…

Oldest brother took the second raccoon off to the farm this afternoon. Must have been a young raccoon ‘cause when I walked over to move the cage out of the rain this morning, it just uncurled and looked at me and went back to sleep. I knew I had caught another one when I heard…

Sat on the porch today and did some pondering while I watched the plethora of birds. Penelope was on squirrel duty in her play pen. The sky was heavily overcast but had a layer of wisps of smokey gray clouds floating fast across the sky, so thin I could see through them. I wondered if…

Today was the perfect day for a rainy day lover. I sat on the porch during the sprinkles and watched the birds fill the bird feeder perches. It came a downpour and I had to go in the house so I sat in the lady den and watched three cardinals, two males and one female,…

Found a young raccoon in my new trap cage this morning. The marshmallows were the perfect bait. This one was quiet and docile. I walked over to look at it and it just stared back. The last one I caught last summer would hiss and growl when I walked close to the cage. Penelope wanted…

Today was warm enough to do some porch pondering. Penelope enjoyed her porch time and I loved watching all the birds in the yard. The sky was overcast but the collection of cloud colors was so pretty. I’m almost out of bird seed so tomorrow will be a bird banquet of fresh seeds and suet.…

Well, the raccoons had a raiding party last night. Cleaned one feeder out on the side yard and took down the feeder with hot pepper seeds but didn’t eat any seeds so maybe a taste of the hot pepper sent them away. My cage is supposed to come tomorrow so I’ll be feeding them a…

It’s been a lazy Sunday for me and Penelope. We’ve been sitting under the cardinal blanket watching the songbirds on the feeders outside the lady den windows. Our morning walk was a cold one and we walked under an azure blue cloudless sky, no buzzards and no crows, but lots of beautiful little songbirds. The…

The sky was robin egg blue this morning marked with a waxing gibbous moon still up way past his bedtime, so handsome against the blue sky canvas. No clouds, just a lone buzzard circling and winding up in the sky, carried along on the cold wind currents. Lots of tintinnabulations from the wind chimes. The…