Just when you think it's safe to go out on the porch..... there was a huge possum on the back porch tonight. One of the biggest I've seen since we've been here. My guess is that it was a very large male, or possibly a pregnant female. I'm hoping it wasn't a pregnant possum.... we don't need baby possums around the house. Honestly, those animals aren't the cutest things ever created.
The orange cat happened to be on the porch when the possum walked up the stairs..... Orange Kitty ran towards the possum, seemingly daring it to take another step. The possum looked at the cat and turned itself around right on the spot and walked back down the stairs. Score one for Orange Kitty.
The neighbor's peacock (which I had been calling King George) hasn't been around here much lately. I've heard that the peacock has made himself quite at home in another neighbor's yard, feasting on her flowers, scratching in her garden, and hanging out with her chickens. Every once in a while, though, I do hear something up on our roof, which I can only guess is King George. Our roof and the upstairs balconies were his favorite sleeping spots at night last month..... so he could be digging up B's garden during the day and then spending his nights on our roof pretending he's a weather-vane.
Dragonflies...... we have so many of them around our property lately. No matter where you are during the day, you're surrounded by these black and white dragonflies which aren't afraid to fly as close to you as they possibly can. Their saving grace is they're pretty, and with their unusual colors, it seems as if the tips of their wings have been painted with black squares. Given my choice of wasps, bees, or dragonflies.... my choice would be the dragonflies. At least they don't sting.
It is 2:30 in the morning as I'm typing this..... I woke up because I heard something walking on the roof. I pray that it's just King George. Do peacocks walk around a roof in the middle of the night?
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