First Fireflies of the Season

When I was letting Miner out one last time before bed, I saw the first firefly of the season in my front yard. :) I love, love, love, that there are fireflies in my neighborhood.

Birds

I have a bird feeder right out my dining room window. It's a pole that has two feeders hanging off it and a hanging basket full of yellow pansies. I love it. Especially that this morning, I just saw a male and female cardinal on it. :) I spend a little extra on bird seed to get straight thistle seed for one feeder and straight safflower seed for the other. This keeps the cardinals coming and keeps the dang crows away. The crows make such a mess and run off all the other birds. That's right. I am bird prejudiced.

It's Spring and Everyone is Nuts!

It's official, all the animals in my near vicinity have gone berserk. There are rabbits attempting to nest in the middle of my back yard. They are digging out little shallow spots in the grass and pushing dead grass and leaves into it for a nice little bunny nest. They are doing this right in the area that Miner hangs out. Stupid rabbits!

Then, when I am letting Miner out this morning, I notice this.


Last year, it was a walnut wedged into the space between the garage and the down-spout for the gutter. But in this case, some squirrel dragged this corn cob from who knows where (probably the house on the NE corner of the intersection of my street and the closest cross-street).

Plus, Miner just doesn't want to listen much these days. I remember back when he was in obedience training, the gal was saying to make sure you keep a close eye on your dogs this time of year - basically they've got spring fever and would run off after any little bunny or squirrel and run a good risk of getting hit by cars.