Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Thursday’s Thoughts #10.
Good morning everyone on this very sunny Thursday! Not a movement of air, it is just perfectly calm. But it is cool again this morning, wasn’t expecting that. The gulls have been here for breakfast and the chipmunks have also been busy. Slim has been here for a while too but with me out there he won’t chase the chipmunks. He’s learning a bit, not enough yet however. I haven’t seen Jasmine since yesterday morning, that’s not good. The chickadees were here this morning too so I quickly got some sunflower seeds to go out and feed them.
I’m not really feeding, but if I see them around I will go out and put seeds on my hand, and they will come down right away. Guess I wasn’t quick enough this morning however, they were gone by the time I got out there. I went for a walk to the river yesterday, first time in 9 days, that’s bad, I really need to go more often. I found some striped coralroot, one of our native wild orchids which I will be talking about next week. Unfortunately they were already finished blooming. They hadn’t even begun last time I was out there. I think the hot dry weather shortened their blooming time this year.
Too bad I missed them. There was a lot of them in that area too. Oh well, might have another chance yet. I’m heading out shortly to a new area for pictures, a couple places that used to have some hard to find wildflowers some years ago, so hopefully I will get something different this morning. But I need to keep this short today, however I will show a couple pics from yesterday’s walk for you to enjoy. Thanks for stopping by, have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Steve`s Country 
Thursdayâs Thoughts #10.
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Thanks for reading Cathy!
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Lovely flowers Steve ! 🐝 very careful on your 🚶♂️…you may run into unwelcome visitors …have a blessed day ! Muffin, your human will be back ! ☕️☕️😺😎☕️☕️
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Not where I went, drove out to Dixie Lake picnic area to have a look around.☕☕🌞😀😁📷 Some great flowers out there. Muffin was waiting for me, kind of, she was sleeping actually.🙄😂😹
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Have fun on your walk!😁
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I did a bit of walking, but mostly it was driving to a couple favorite old spots of mine to check for flowers. Got some nice pics too!😀😺🌞📷🚶♂️🚶♂️🌲🌲🌳
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Great! Did you get down and dirty with the bugs or stick to the upper canopy for pics?
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I was slithering on the ground like a snake on my stomach. Mainly because I was having trouble getting up after taking pics. Getting attacked by huge marauding red and black ants helped me get up faster. Those things can bite!! Back a bit later, time for a rest.😁🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜😳😳😳🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
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Okay! I’m home and here whenever you’re ready!😁😁
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I’m back, are you back?🤔
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I Am!😁 hi!
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Hi, how was your day? Is it nice weather down there? Another kinda cool day here, it did get up to 70 just now. It was supposed to get warmer. Oh well.
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Yeah, it was a great day actually.. mid 70’s and sun 🌞
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I thought it would be a lot warmer there. Nice. There was a lot of clouds move in about mid morning but they were gone by mid afternoon. Kind of spoiled my picture taking near the end, but I still did good. One flower didn’t come out good, which was disappointing as they are not easy to find.
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It’s the adventure not the destination.. right??
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Um, right!😬 I think.🙄🤯 Still, without the destination there would be no adventure.🙄 I think.🤔😳
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That’s pretty steep thinking there!🤔🤔🤔 I might need to ponder that one a bit??🙄🙄😂😂
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I agree, my brain nearly exploded on that one. But I sneezed instead.😂😂😹😹😾
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Pressure relief valve!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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Yep, very handy for sure.😁😁😁🤧🤧🤧
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Did you have supper?
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Yep, sure did.
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Good! Something yummy for the tummy??😋😋😂😂
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Chicken with rice and nice cold curly cumpers.😂😹
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Cumpers?? Hmmm🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄 Not sure I’ve heard of those before… are they a vegetable??
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Aha! Didn’t read Muffin’s Mewsings did you?😾😾
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Ya got me!! 😬😬 brb!!
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Oh, wait till I tell Muffin that one!
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Hey…. wait a minute!!! How was I supposed to know??😖😖
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She went to all that trouble to write a nice mewsings and you don’t read it. Now she’s going to cry.😳😟
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Hey… that’s not fair… 😔😔😔😛
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I agree. Sniff.
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I read it! 😛 You’re trying to get me in trouble!🤨🤨
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You read it after I mentioned it to you. I mean, it came out 5 days ago.🙄
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That’s where you were wrong! I did read back then! So 😛😛😛😛
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Oh yeah, then how come you didn’t remember?🤨
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I did! I said cucumber 🥒.
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That’s after you went to look it up. But I’ll tell Muffin you read it, but you just forgot what you read. Maybe she won’t cry so much then.
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Cucumber was never written in her musings! You were slicing them and dropped the knife! Almost severing your toes!!😛😛
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Aha! See? It was mentioned and Muffin mentioned them by name anyway.🙄😾
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Yes she did kinda!
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It’s okay, I haven’t told her yet, I hate to see her cry before bedtime.😬
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Ooooohhhhhh that is way outa bounds buster!!🤨🤨😛😛😛😛😛😛
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It’s not my fault.
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Yeah it is! You brought it up!🤨🤨 You made it sound like she just wrote it today.
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Not my fault you have a bad memory. But I’ll try to soften the blow when I tell Muffin.😁 See how nice I am?
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Yeah!!! I’m seeing it alright!🤨🤨😏😏😏😏
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I like to help.
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Yeah… maybe try just a bit less🙄🙄🙄
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First you want help, then you don’t. Sigh.🙄 Oh well, time for bed, all that fresh air has made me rather tired tonight. Good night Dusty, sleep well, don’t forget, tomorrow’s Friday!😄🌞🌙😴🤯
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Are you sure it was just the fresh air?? You’ve been working pretty hard at helping me dig my hole!😂😂 Good Night Steve!😴😴😴😴 Rest up! Never can tell if I’ll need more help tomorrow!😉😁😂😂😂😂😂
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Is Muffin having a disscussion with you?🙄🙄🙄
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Nope, she’s looking out the bedroom window right now.
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Oh good! I thought perhaps your feet were undergoing acupuncture!🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
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Now why would that happen? I didn’t do anything.🤨
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Are you sure????🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😏😏😏😏😏
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Of course, you’re the one who forgot reading her post.
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Okay.. this is only digging me deeper🤨🤨 Tell to bite gently😬😬
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I agree, better quit while you’re still able to see some daylight.😂😂
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Yeah! No how about a flashlight and a ladder??
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That’s your problem.
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Gee thanks for all your support😔😔
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You’re welcome. You just said you wanted me to help less, remember?🤔 Just doing what you wanted.😛😛
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Uhhhh.. okay😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛
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Oh…. A cucumber 🥒
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Now you got it.
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I didn’t realize they were curly…🤭🤭
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You should see some of them.😳🙄
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Now that you mention it… the ones in produce dept. at the grocery so yes there are some odd looking cucumbers.
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Yep, sure is some odd ones out there, some look like a U, some look like a C, some look like they’re looking right at me.😳
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LOL 😂😆 I think I saw that one myself!!😂😂😂😂
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Oh no, it had legs!😬😲😲🥒🏃♂️
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That’s what I said!!😳😲
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I knew I heard it somewhere.🤔
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Why didn’t you tell me sooner??🤔🤔
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As they say in the old country, “things are better later than sooner, especially bills.”
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I can atest to that 100%
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We have to write a test? I’m sunk.
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Yes! Multiple choice!😂😂😂
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Oh good, 50/50 chance of passing!
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Yep! Yes or No!😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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That makes it easier.
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Yes it does!🤣🤣
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Thanks for the hint.
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You’re very trusting of my memory….🤭🤭
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Not really, I’ll just do the opposite.🤣🤣
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I figured you might…😂😂
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Canada warbler, is this first time? I don’t remember seeing this bird before, it looks beautiful 😍 Harebells another beautiful flower 😍 Hope you had good fun 😉🤗
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I had a great time out today Simon, got a lot more pics.😁🌞📷 Yes, this is the first time ever to get a picture of the Canada warbler,🤸♂️ 📷I’m so excited to get that one,🥳 I have several more as he was flying to different branches.😁😺
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😍😍 That is awesome 😍 show us in coming posts 😁
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Show my pictures? Yep, I will be doing that. Some here, some there, more coming next week. Maybe even tomorrow or Sunday.😁📷
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😁☺️
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Beautiful photos Steve and I hope your walk was fruitful 😉☺️
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Thanks so much Ribana! Well, it was actually more driving than walking. I went to a spot where I used to find wild orchids. I didn’t find any today, but found other interesting wildflowers anyway, so I got a lot of nice pictures.😁🌞📷
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Then means that was still a fruitful walking 😉
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Yes indeed, it sure was! I was certainly happy with everything!😁📷
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I hope Jasmine is OK. Glad you got to go to the river yesterday. and orchids are one of my favorite flowers…
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She was back this morning fighting with Slim, but Slim won as usual. He has taken top spot now unfortunately, but that happens when there are lots of squirrels around, things keep changing. But I hope she keeps coming around. I hardly see Jasper anymore, Freddie and Chase are gone. This guy is a tough one. Actually a friend and I drove out to a small lake yesterday for something different to do and get some different pics. It was a great morning!
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I guess you don’t mess around with Slim! glad you got take some different pics…
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Yes, Slim is the one to beat now. Eventually another squirrel will show up and take over, or maybe Jasper will try once fall comes and squirrels start arguing over territory again.
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survival of the fittest…
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But he’s finding out it’s lonely at the top.
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so I’ve been told…
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😁😺
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