Today was a cloudy drippy day, with the sun not making an appearance till late in the afternoon. My husband and I washed the windows and screens on one side of the kitchen. It's a two-person job because this is an old hundred-year-old house and the wood frames for the screens are screwed into the window trim. So my husband uses the power drill to get the screens out..... he washes all the screens while I do the windows, then he puts the screens back. One side of the kitchen is done.... we'll do the other side another day. So many windows in this house...... I counted them once.... more than 50. As I have said before..... if my mother-in-law had been alive when we found this house, she would have told me to run the other way, or hire a live-in housekeeper.
Our outside cat Mickey continues to catch and eat lizards.... big ones, little ones... he's not too fussy. If he can catch them, he's eating them. And he seems to enjoy eating them right in front of me. He'll be walking towards me with a lizard hanging from his mouth.... he'll stop right in front of me and look at me with those big golden eyes of his and then his jaws start chomping down on the poor lizard. And each and every time, I stand there and say "Oh, Mickey..... that poor little thing......" His response is Chomp, chomp, chomp. Mickey used to sit on my lap and lick my wrists. He will still sit on my lap, but I don't let him lick my wrists anymore, for obvious reasons.
Lots of hummingbirds today..... makes me wonder where they were hiding during those rainy days we had. The barn swallows hide up on top of the porch columns..... I don't know where the sparrows go...... and we have woodpeckers and doves and purple martins, all of which must be up in the pecan trees. Plenty of crows out here..... huge crows that look like small chickens. They'll be coming around to eat up the pecans once they start ripening. My husband goes out there with an air-horn, to scare the crows away. Problem with that is the smaller birds get more frightened than the big crows..... not to mention the cats. Gatsby or Mickey will be outside napping on the porch and the air-horn goes off and you would think a bomb went off in the yard when you see the cats running in the opposite direction of the air-horn blast.
We're supposed to have more rainy days this week. The more the merrier..... there's still a few inches left in the pond that could use some more rain water. I'm hoping the ducks will come back. I saw (and heard) a flock of ducks flying overhead this afternoon. Possibly, they were scoping out the local ponds, looking at their choices for a new home. It was so quiet outside this afternoon that I could actually hear the wings of the ducks as they flew over the property. I wonder if the ducks would approve of my husband's air-horn?
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