Gah! Really?!?!

Today is just such a beautiful day! Last fall, we were robbed by the drought. Everything just dried up and turned brown. But days like this really make up for for last year. Gorgeous, I tell you.

the view from our backyard

I am just in LOVE with our maple tree out front. 

The leaves even look pretty on the ground.

I know my iPhone photos hardly do it justice, but this is my attempt to hold on to it just a little bit longer.
Have a great weekend!

Ruh-roh Raggy...

Call the gang we've got a mystery on our hands! Yesterday evening I was out in the sun room and I noticed a pile of fresh dirt near the gate.

Hmmmm

Upon closer inspection it appears that someone tunneled under our fence. With my CSI-like investigative skills I determined, based on the direction of the removed soil, that the perp (or "un-sub" if you're more into Criminal Minds) was tunneling from inside our yard.  But who was it? The neighbor cats can easily come and go over the fence. The moles would just go underground. I saw a dog digging after a mole in the neighbor's yard the other day, but it was much too large to escape thru this hole. And how would it have gotten inside the fence needing to dig out? Such an intriguing mystery!

Somebody made an escape!

After much deliberation and a thorough(ish) investigaesh, I am going with ground hog. When we saw a fatty little guy in the yard last week he was coming down the hill. I think he probably came from the woods somewhere at the top of our hill. Ron chased him back up the hill, probably back where he came in. But this time he made it all the way down the hill and needed an escape route to get out to the front. The hole is bigger than it looks in this photo, but definitely big enough for a fat ground hog. 

A Persistent Little Visitor

Wednesday when I came home from work there was a robin hanging around out in our backyard. Then he started coming over and landing on the screen to one of the sunroom windows. A little while later, he stared flying into the glass of one of the windows. Over and over again, until it got dark. Then, much to our surprise, the little guy showed back up the next morning and continued his relentless pursuit of bursting through the window. Jasper seemed to enjoy the show. And when he was sitting on the window ledge, the bird stayed safely atop the fence. As soon as the cat was gone, he started up again.
I snapped a couple pics:


Scoping things out, getting ready for take-off.

 

Um, I guess at least he's not flying into the window head first.



Jasper found a good vantage point just inside the house with a perfect view of the sunroom. You can see our little friend flying over from the fence in the top of this pic.

Then he must've had his fill or realized he was not making any progress and he was gone... for a few days. Then what do you know, when I went home for lunch today the little bugger was back! Flying into the window, with a big juicy worm hanging out of his mouth beak. WTH, little robin?!? It's not happenin, buddy. Maybe you should find a new hobby.