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Gerbil

*Taking a bow*
Yes, yes.....I am the great and fearless gerbil catcher.
<beaming with pride>

Okay, fine.....in all truthfulness.....I was just sitting in my spot.....kind of waiting for a headache to go away......when one of G=girl's gerbils walks by the baby gate into our room. He stops, looks in at me, and says "hey Grammie". Then proceeds to head on down the hall.

I jump up and yell "GERBIL!!!" Here comes the daughter....who calls for G-son1. Pull out the couches, do some fancy footwork....and viola! Two wayward gerbils are now tucked safely away in their habitat.

RR

Home from the retreat in the Hill Country....safe and sound.

Do you guys remember me making a drive here from Nevada.....then back to Nevada and back to here? I mentioned not seeing any road runners and I was a tad disappointed?

Yeal, well....today....leaving the retreat....drive maybe 100 feet, there, standing in the driveway.....big ol' huge road runner. hahaha In no hurry to move, either. Nice to see it.

Finally online. Whew. hehe

Yea....finally got connected here at the retreat. We are kind out in the woods and the hill country....connect will probably come and go. As long as I can see Doctor Who tomorrow night I will survive. hahahaha Priorities, you know.

Working on cards right now. Which means beneficially talking a lot

Tina made the most fantastic pecan pie....a real p-can pie. hehe Happy tummy. She is such a good hostess. Spoils us all the time.

I tried to get a picture of daddy and mommy cardinal on the feeder.....I got them, but they are sort of tiny, cause I was using the phone. Pretty little guys.....

The Birds

And now, for my neighbor across the street story......

I am sitting out front....Lori Lou chilling.......

The man neighbor is on his roof....along with what I would guess is his teenager son......their house is one of those older style two stories.....with a roof, and then a 6 foot section to the next part of the roof. Stair step, so to speak.

They are looking all around the edges....I try to keep myself out of their business....but alas.....no such luck! I ask, are you looking for the cat that hangs out on the corner of your house?? It comes and goes all the time. He responds with, yes, we have seen it.....no, we are looking for the birds in our chimney.

Hummmm, I think to myself. No chimney on this side of the house....so why are they looking?? Next thing I know....another tall teen or 20-ish guy joins them. And....ta da! They now have a step ladder. Yes, a step ladder.

The guy sets up the ladder, which of course leans out the wrong way....he messes with it this way, and that way.....eventually, the two younger guys brace each side with their feet and hold it tight against the house and up the man goes.

During all of this.....I am watching the birds come and go out the side of their house, up by the eaves......they have a huge vent....probably 3x3 foot. With nesting material hanging out. But, still, I keep my mouth shut.

The wife comes out....okay, I give in....I will go talk to the woman......she tells me the birds are driving her crazy....the sound coming out of the chimney.....I nicely tell her, it is probably not the chimeny....it is the vent on the side of the house.....she walks over and basily goes AH HA!

About this time, the man comes back across the top of the house and says, there are no birds in the chimney. (no duh...hehe) The wife explains about the end of the house......I welcome her to the neighborhood.....and the man looks off the top level to the second level and the ladder....then says, I hope you have 911 on speed dial. Me? I promptly respond with.....sure....but I will have to post the video on YouTube first, you know. We all start laughing.....

I head back to my side of the street.....and he makes it back down the same way he made it up......there are a few people watching now.....and we all cheer for him. It was just some neighborhood fun for the night.

Just for the record......they eventually realized they had an attic, how to get in it.....and chased the birds all out......then fixed the wire over the vent.

Get out!

Ms Dances with Dragonflies finally found something here in the big city that she can chase out of the yard.

I let her out this morning, along with Cowboy, the daughter's pup. She made it about two steps out the door, lifted her front paw then took off like a shot out of a cannon.

SQUIRRELLLLLLLLLLLLL! hahahahaha

The part that made me chuckle......the squirrel was up the tree and probably four houses away......laughing at her. Lori Lou had no idea.....she just knew she finally something that needed to be removed from the yard.

Poofs

The G=kids had some jalapeno cheesy poofs outside. One was dropped on the grass. Lori Lou spied it....goes to check it out.....in stealth mode so as not to let me know she is about to eat something she probably shouldn't.

She gets to it and sniffs......momentary pause.....smaller sniff.....back up a step.....look at the cheesy poof and walked off. I think I could see her thinking....."what a waste of a perfectly good poof".

You know something must be bad if a garbage disposal pug won't eat it.