Showing posts with label MY PHOTOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MY PHOTOS. Show all posts

Going From Warm to RED. A Tiny Bedroom Makeover

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So a week or so ago I was visiting my son when he told me he was going to be painting one of his bedrooms red. "RED you say?" (I couldn't believe it. Why red??) "Yes," he replied quietly (he's a very quiet kid), yet adamantly, "red". This I had to see.


LOVEY and DOVEY Sitting I̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶T̶R̶E̶E̶ On a FENCE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

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Captured some love doves getting all lovey-dovey on the fence. They don't call them that for nothing!

Unfortunately, the images were shot through a patio door (except for the very last one), so they were not as clear as I would have liked them to be. Nevertheless, you get the picture!

Out of all of these 35 shots, there is one that is my most favourite! Can you guess which one?


#1.

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Sharing Some SUGAR ON A STICK

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I have never seen anything like this before - brown sugar on a stick. Actually, it's brown OR white sugar - on a stick. No more fumbling for the sugar bowl and spoon.




MY HALLOWEEN PHOTOS OF A VAMPIRE BRIDE

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So Halloween has come and gone but I’m sure you’ve all captured your favourite photos of some great costumes. For me, the scarier the better so when I stumbled upon this Vampire Bride (who also had her mom dressed up for Halloween but not as intense), at a local Long Term Care home, I just had to take a few shots. Some people were actually afraid to look at her. It’s those eyes I tell ya!
It took ‘Lisa Mc’ just over 3 hours to make this awesome creation!

EVIDENCE FROM MY SQUIRRELS

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So I was out watering my hanging plants today and was thinking about my squirrel friends. I haven't seen them for over a week. My husband told me he hasn't really seen any also but he still tosses out some food for them every once in awhile in case they do come around. I was just curious if they've been near our yard lately and I soon found out the answer to that question.


CAN YOU SPOT THE SQUIRRELS?

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So I was out relaxing on the back patio the other day, enjoying a beer, (I'm still searching for one I really like, by the way), when suddenly I heard ruffling in the trees and tiny leaves or something falling from it. After a few minutes of intensely watching the trees, I realized it was some squirrels. Of course! What else could it have been?

I haven't seen them for so long - since the weather got warmer actually, so I totally forgot about them. But as you all know, I love taking pictures of them so I ran back inside to grab my camera and started shooting away.

It was hard to spot them at first but if you look closely, you will see them. Whatever they were eating, they were sure enjoying it and it was also so fascinating to see how adept they were at eating upside down. Oh! Check out the animation also that was created by Google+ way down below.




HOUDINI FINALLY TRIES OUT HIS NEW BIRD BATH!

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Yeah!

So it has been 3 months since our lovebird Houdini, finally felt brave enough to try out the new bird bath/observatory. Lol. I say observatory because that's what he has been using it for - to gain closer access to seeing us when we're in the kitchen. Not as a bird bath.

I thought he'd never use it. I did everything to try to encourage him and then finally, one day - bam! He uses it. Just like that! (See video)

I remained pretty calm as not to scare him. I was happy and finally relieved to see him use it. I only have the one love bird and I've had him for almost 10 years now. I've also noticed over that period of time, that whenever I get him something new, it takes him weeks to get used to it.  This time, the bird bath took months.

I thought this day would never come...



CHEEKY SQUIRREL DEVOURS PEANUT BUTTER

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So while having lunch with a co-worker the other day, we came across 'another' cheeky squirrel standing so close to us and just staring at us.  He wouldn't move for anything.  Then we realized it was the peanut butter packets we were eating out of.  He smelled the peanut butter, lol.  I guess it was the wrong thing to eat around a bunch of squirrels!

You know what's cooler than the pictures of him eating it?  It's me capturing it on video. I was only able to capture it for a few seconds - but that was good enough.

He licked that thing clean before throwing it away, lol. Slob!

Peanut butter packet
It never ceases to amaze me how dexterous their little paws are. The way he held on to that peanut butter packet and licked it clean looked similar to how, well, I would do it!

The majority of the squirrels around here at work seem to be rather 'friendly' and of course, cheeky.  I hope to capture more of their antics when time and weather permits.  For now, I was just happy to capture this moment with one of them.


HOLY DEAD CICADA!

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So yesterday, while cleaning up the backyard, I found myself a huge space-like looking creature - dead.  I thought it was alive at first, the way it just laid there on the patio stone... looking up at me and all, but soon realized it was as dead as a doornail.
I immediately started screaming, "Honey! Come look!  I found me a space insect!  Quick!"

Well, when he saw it, he immediately responded "That's not a space creature, that's a seecada!"  "A see-what?" A CICADA.   Boy, did I ever felt like a reeeeetard! I knew of crickets and grasshoppers but not cicadas.

"Ah, those are the insects that makes so much noise all the time", I mumbled. (It was huge!  It was almost as big as my pinkie finger!)
"Yes, those are the culprits.  Now leave it alone and throw it away in the dirt."

Well, he might as well have been talking to the tree 'cause I used a stick to poke it and flip it around, turn it upside down and examined it more closely...


CHEEKY SQUIRRELS AND THE HEATWAVE

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OMG.  Talk about heatwave!  Fall officially arrives on the 22nd of September, but you'd think summer had just begun with the heatwave we've been experiencing in the past few days.  Even my cheeky squirrels are trying to cope with the temps... at least one of them anyways.

By the end of the week, temps will drop like a stone, but in the meantime, this cheeky squirrel did what he had to do to keep cool.

Talk about being cheeky.  He seen me taking shots of him and instead of running away.... he just laid there.  So cheeky.  As usual, while this one is distracting me, the other one is up to no good... getting into my flower pot. That's a first!












Wished I could have joined him but I had to get to work!  As for his partner in crime...












Have a good day!


INVASION OF THE CHEEKY SQUIRRELS

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So I was taking a few shots of the neighbour's cat... again, because this time it was on my fence and not on theirs when I happened to snap that cheeky squirrel going by - talk about perfect timing! I am a bit fascinated with this cat, and cats in general since I don't have one of my own.

I assume this is how they act - laying around anywhere they please.  This one, however, seems to love hanging around our place.  He's always under my car, on my door step or as you can see now - on my fence, lol.


He also doesn't seem to give 'two shits' about me taking pics of him, since he looked at me then turned away. I'm not sure if it's a him though.  I will have to find out from my neighbour... and it's name.







Anyways, before snapping these pics, I was already taking pics through my screen door of the cat.  It wasn't until later, when going through them that I noticed that cheeky squirrel in the background...


CHEEKY SQUIRREL, NEIGHBOUR'S CAT...

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The cheeky squirrel I wrote about in my previous post I guess isn't the only one around this yard that's cheeky or finding this fence 'convenient'...














I thought he was looking down at something... but that's how he slept for the next hour and a half, lol.