Hawk Day

As Keith said when he came in the door tonight... 

"I have never seen so many hawks as I saw today!"

Neither did I! 

This is the back view of our friend from yesterday... he was on the same pole, 

looking for dinner.  

Beautiful, huh? 

Here's his front view as the dogs and I came home from the farm. 

This guy was circling over our pasture. 

Guess what I saw as he saw me? 

Uh huh.  Jester was down in the bottom tier, our pasture is terraced from when it was a strawberry farm. 

Jester had been out of sight of ME, but not of the hawk.  

Ten years ago... Oscar, our Min Pin, was attacked and lifted off the 

ground by a hawk.  He had to have stitches and a shunt put in his haunches 

for ten days.  

He landed in a tree in Spehar's pasture.  

I looked away to take a picture of this big nest... and when I looked back, he was gone. 

I kept Jester close to me. 

However, five minutes later, I saw him far off, quartering another pasture. 

Lilly hardly looked up. 

I dropped the dogs off at home, and left to run to the store quickly... and I saw this guy 

on a pole. 

A beauty, huh????

This terrible picture is of Jester checking out our new bird bath! 

It is on the porch at the old house, the porch that is so cluttery, still. 

I have a gizmo to put around the plug connector to keep it clean and dry, but 

couldn't figure out how to put it on... help, Keith.... and if this 

fount works out... it turns heat on when the temps get below 34.... then I'm going 

to get one for here.  It holds about 3 1/2 quarts of water.  

If this DOESN'T work... I'll bring it over here when I can keep a close eye on it, and 

get a heated dog bowl for water over there.  Then I don't have to worry about 

the wild birds there. 

I think it's really attractive, too, and has a cast sand base so that 

the birds can get a good grip on it. 

And Kathy's cat! 

Bits and Pieces on Wednesday

Miss "yesterday's post was all about me"  when we got home from 

our walk last night. 

A last look at the gorgeous Mia, who won two classes at the 

AKC show last weekend.  

They will all be leaving on Friday. 

The Birdbath That Fell on Austin. 

You notice it is not on its' plinth. 

It's staying on the ground, it's too heavy to be in a yard where kids will be playing. 

We are grateful to Valerie for it... and for the six or seven planters she also gave us!

I spent some time with Brother Pete this morning... 

and I need to say here that all his clothes from his previous 

nursing home disappeared when he went in the hospital. 

I am slowly getting him new clothes, so dropped off a bunch this morning

Now his shoes are gone. 

I ran in the Michael's up by where Pete's nursing home is to get a puffy paint pen 

to mark the clothes better... so this is a gratuitous fall foliage picture. 

Yes, things found their way into my basket! 

I took a different exit from the highway coming home, and finally found a road I KNEW connected to 7 highway so I could go to the grocery on the way home.  They were working on the road, and here let me 

say that we have never lived anywhere where the roads are taken care of like they are here in Leavenworth County.  I stopped to talk to two of the workers (way behind this) and we had a nice visit. 

The countryside over there is gorgeous, too... the problem there is that there is nowhere to pull off and take pictures. 

Keith, one of these MUST come home for our porch  and I'll put a battery-operated candle in it!

That's an inspirational planting of angelonia at the nursing home.  

Love it! 

Last night's sunset...

And this morning.  I prayed we would get rain... and there ARE some chances... but 

it is full on sun right now. 

That's it for today... Lilly and I have a destiny at the park!