For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Good Monday morning to all of you! Happy Independence Day to my American readers!! It is a nice Monday morning. Well, I think it is anyway. Of course it would depend on a persons idea of “nice”. For some nice could mean winter with 5 feet of snow on the ground. Kind of a nightmare scenario. For others nice could mean a gentle summer rain. That one is not so bad. Others might consider heavy rain with thunder and lightning to be nice.
Not my choice, but I am kind of strange. Others might think that sunny and calm is nice. Now we are talking. Speaking of talking. I was very tired on Friday night. Okay, I usually am tired at night. It is kind of a strange phenomenon I know, but as I said previously, I am kind of strange. But I digress. Anyway, I get to bed and 15 minutes later, after falling asleep, I hear Muffin calling from the living room.
What? What? Is something wrong? Oh wait, that is her, “hey, I just caught a mouse” meow. This was followed by a bunch of loud crashing and things falling! Sigh. I am glad she catches the mice that come in, but that was a bit loud. Now I am wide awake again. And I have to go see what has happened, in case Muffin hurt herself. I also need to get rid of the mouse before Muffin gets the weird idea that this thing is a nice midnight snack.
So I get out of bed and walk into the dresser…forgot, the door is that way. So I go through the door and Muffin comes running over meowing excitedly swirling around my legs and takes me over to the mouse. Good, it is dead this time. I bend over to grab the tail and the thing squeaks, jumps and runs off. Muffin was right behind it but the mouse ran under my recliner. Muffin cannot get under that.
Meanwhile I am recovering from this frightening experience. I am not scared of mice, I just thought it was dead so when it jumped, so did I. Just kind of natural when something happens that is not supposed to happen but does happen anyway. Hmm, anyway, I could see this was going to take a while so I decide to find out what went crashing and smashing. I look all over. Not even the tiniest thing was out of place.
I know that is impossible, however, that is the way it was. I was happy about that on one hand, but curious that they could make so much noise without causing any damage or even anything falling or moving out of place. Back to bed for me, but sleep does not come along too quickly since I am still trying to figure out this puzzle of nothing moving out of place. Plus I know that as soon as I fall asleep Muffin will catch the mouse again and I will be getting up again.
It was not quite that way, it took nearly a whole hour and that familiar meowing was heard once more. I got up. Mouse was on floor. Muffin went over to show me it was dead this time…and it ran away again. I banged my head on the door and went back to bed. The rest of the night was quiet. But that did not stop me from waking up every hour expecting to hear more meowing. Sigh. Oh, the mouse got safely away. Thank you all for reading this morning, have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
ยฉ2022 Steve McLeod.
Happy Independence day๐ค
And lovely pictures ๐โจ๏ธ
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Thanks Butterfly!๐๐บ๐
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You’re welcome, Steve๐ค โจ๏ธ
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Quite an eventful night! You two are very funny ๐ ๐ป๐
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Yes, we do have our “fun” nights sometimes! Glad you enjoyed our little night adventure!๐๐น๐
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Oh dear, not what you wanted Iโm sure, especially as you get up so early.
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Yes, I lost quite a bit of sleep that night!๐ฅฑ I did allow myself to sleep in an extra 20 minutes though.๐๐บ๐
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20 minutes!!
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I was going to make it a full half hour but I didn’t want to waste too much of the day.๐๐๐บ
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Don’t be concerned about Muffin catching a mouse…. she needs to keep her mousing skills sharp! Remember Tom & Jerry?? They were best of friends!๐ I think you were snoring and she couldn’t sleep so she got her mouse friend to play dead and woke you up to stop the snoring ๐ด๐ถ๐คญ๐คญ๐คญ
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Yeah, but Jerry didn’t carry disease!๐ฎ๐ฑ I don’t mind Muffin waking me up at night, but I prefer she did it during the day! Amazingly that mouse came back the next night too!๐๐ผ๐ฌ
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See?? It’s Muffins friend!๐คญ๐คญ๐๐น๐น ๐ ๐ชค
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Hmm, I could name it Dusty.๐ค๐๐น
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I like it!๐๐ it has a nice ring to it!๐๐
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As long as there’s no dust clouds as he’s running around!๐๐๐น
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I need someone to clean it off of my boots ๐ข ๐๐๐
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I could try to mail the mouse to you.๐ค๐
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Oh no… I’ve got all I need to do that!!๐๐ ๐๐๐
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But you need a good leader of the group!๐๐น๐
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Nope! I train them how I want them to do it!๐๐๐๐
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Which one is the conductor? And the engineer?๐๐
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Which ever one can toot the loudest gets to run the train ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐
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Tell the toot, the whole toot and nothing but the toot!๐๐น
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They better or they’re out!!๐๐
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But don’t tie them to the twain twack!๐๐น๐
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They can be hard to twain!!๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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And hard to keep twack of too!
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It can be a twicky situation!!๐๐๐๐
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Yep, getting the twain through the door is the hardest part.๐ค๐
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Just need to take twain through the tunnel and into the station!!๐๐๐
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Wow, didn’t know you lived so close to the twain station!
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It is nice to just hop on and go to town!๐คญ๐คญ
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Must have a rabbit engineer!๐๐น๐
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It’s the one that lives in my yard! Very cute ๐ cotton tail ๐ ๐ฐ
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Hope he is able to keep it!
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Me too!!๐ฒ๐ฒ
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Oh!! Hey guess what I bought at the store on Sunday?? You’ll never ever guess what it was….๐๐๐ฅ
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Peanuts.๐ค๐ฅ๐ฅ
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Ah… how did you guess??๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ณ The squirrels told you didn’t they??๐คจ๐คจ
But yep! Two big bags full! Now I just need to find a few minutes utes to feed the critters!! I’ve made commitments to go visit my sister Wed evening and my brother some day next week. Lots to finish up before I leave again.
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That’s okay, take the peanuts back with you for the poor little squirrels down south that have probably never seen a peanut before.๐ค๐ฅ๐ฅ
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That’s a good thought ๐ ๐ ๐ค ๐ ๐
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I come up with them, I really do.๐
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I’ve noticed…๐ด๐๐๐
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Oooooo, how nice!๐
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I thought so!!๐๐๐๐
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Good, that way I don’t have to think.๐๐น
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If it’s good for you, I’m happy!๐๐๐
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Oh good, if I’m happy, I’m happy. I think.๐ค๐
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That’s terrific!๐ Don’t even think about it!๐๐
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I like that thought best.
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I agree!๐๐
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That’s good because I forgot what we were saying!๐๐น
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And I thought it was me that lost track!! Thanks for letting me know!๐๐๐
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You’re the one with the train, so you better not lose track!๐ฌ๐
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Nope! Not by me!! It has one set of tracks and that’s where it will stay!๐๐๐๐๐๐
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Now you’re talking.๐
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Toot Toot!๐
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Good morning Dusty!๐๐
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Good Morning ๐๐
Hows your day going?
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Good, nice sunny morning though lots of clouds around now. I missed a cool damselfly this morning, one I don’t have. Sigh.๐๐ท๐
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Well that kinda stinks๐คข Perhaps tomorrow? You know that they live around you so there’s always a chance
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Yep, but they don’t seem to stick around long for some reason. I am going to try in that area of the yard again this afternoon. I was focused on it so nicely, which is not easy, then a big gust of wind came and blew the grass around wildly and he disappeared. It might have gone into the neighbors yard.
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Rats! Dang wind!! I snapped a picture of a Cardinal yesterday! There were a pair male and female. I got the male, but the Mrs. Wouldnt sit still long enough to get her picture ๐๐
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ooooh, very nice! Yes, sometimes they can be that way which makes it very difficult. Are you out walking? Oh, yesterday I had something happen that has never happened to me before! I certainly would not expect it either.
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Yeah, I’m walking. What happened?๐ค๐
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I heard a knock at the door and went to see who it was. A young woman was standing there…
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That sounds interesting ๐ค then what??๐
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She asked if she could use my bathroom! A rather odd request! Apparently she is from Winnipeg, had just bought a new car and the transmission gave out in front of the house here and she had to wait for an hour for a tow truck! She says no way could she last that long!๐I know the feeling, and a couple other houses refused her.๐ฌ I let her come in. Then I gave her a bit of a tour of my place. It actually took nearly 2 hours for the tow truck to come.๐๐
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That was very kind of you!๐๐ Those tow trucks are on their own time schedule!!! So did you make a new friend? Get her phone number, address, Name??๐๐
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A new friend?๐ค Not really, I don’t think her husband would have liked that too much!๐๐น
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Ehhh…. probably not!๐๐
I need to take a shower ๐ฟ i just finished the watering system for my new bushes and I’m filthy dirty. I’ll PIng you back in a few minutes๐๐
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Okie and dokie.
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I’m back! All sick and span!๐๐โบ๏ธ
How was your day??
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You’re sick? What happened?
It was a good day, kinda busy and I’m tired. Must remember to have my afternoon nap.๐ฅฑ๐ด
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It was supposed to read “Spick” and Span… a brand new phone and it does everything the old one did!!๐๐๐๐๐
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Maybe they knew each other!๐๐๐๐น
Did you read todays chapter?๐ค๐ต๏ธ
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Not as of yet! BRB!๐๐ ๐โโ๏ธ ๐โโ๏ธ ๐โโ๏ธ
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Okie and dokie.
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I’m back!!๐
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Me too! Wow, those crows are sure noisy this evening, there is a whole bunch of them out there!
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Flying carp! Something must have died..
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Sounds more like a crowvention to me.๐ค
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Maybe it’s the politicians crabbing at each other again ๐ค ๐๐๐๐
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They are on vacation now, though it’s hard to tell the difference.๐ค๐
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That is the TRUTH!!๐๐๐
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Precisely what I said too! Could you do me a favor? Use your laptop and go to my blog, not using the WP app and see if it asks for your name and email for commenting.๐ค
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Ok! BRB!
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Okie and dokie.
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Yes it does!๐๐ Good job!๐
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Sigh. I don’t want it there, it is not supposed to be there. I took it off before because it prevents people from commenting. WP said I put it back but I did not, they did it. Sigh. Now I can’t remember how to remove it. Sigh.
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Give it some thought and you’ll remember ๐ ๐
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I just went through everything and can’t find anything to do with that. But I notice some things have changed since I was in those pages before. Sigh. Guess I might have to contact their happiness engineers again. Oddly I never seem to end happy with them. Sigh.๐
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Keep smiling ๐ ๐ make friends not enemies๐๐๐๐
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Somehow that doesn’t really help.๐
Anyway, tis time to fall into bed and get some shuteye before my eyes shut. Got to admit, that’s a good one!๐๐น
Good night Dusty!๐๐ฅฑ๐
Sleep well, rise early!๐ด๐ด๐
Chatter tomorrow!๐๐บ
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Good Night Goof Ball๐๐
Pleasant Dreams!! ๐ด
I’ll be watching and waiting!๐๐๐
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Me too!๐
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I know you will!๐
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Guess what time I woke up this morning??๐๐
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6am! Do I get a prize?๐
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Nope and nope! 5 am!!๐๐ That was way to early!! I couldn’t sleep anymore ๐ช
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Hmm, sounds kinda normal to me, any later and the day is getting wasted.๐๐๐น๐น
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It was nice to get an early start๐ I started work at 5:30 so I finished work early too!
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See how nice that is! Do it again, do it again.๐๐น
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I’ll try๐๐๐๐
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I knew you could do it!
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Thanks for the confidence ๐๐๐
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UGH…late night hunting keeps everyone awake!
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Yes, that is so true! I lost a lot of sleep that night!๐ฌ๐ฅฑ๐๐๐ผ
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A mouse๐ ! I do not like anything running onto my bed ! No mice here…I think ! …wonderful pics Steve ! ๐๐ป๐๐ด Sleep well ! And mouse-free !
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I wouldn’t like it if it was on my bed either!๐ฌ๐ผ I hope Muffin never tries to bring it onto my bed!๐ฎ Have a nice comfortable sleep tonight!๐ฅฑ๐๐ด๐ด
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I can just visualize the cat and mouse story. I had to laugh! We don’t have mice issues, thank goodness. However, Callie will climb up the wall if she sees a bug. ๐คฃ๐๐ฑ ๐ญโ๏ธโ๏ธ
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Glad you could laugh at it Eugenia!๐๐น I was hoping people would get some chuckles from it. Yes, Muffin loves chasing after bugs too!๐บ๐โโ๐ชฒ๐ท๏ธ๐
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