For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Hi everyone,😺 Muffin here! I finally back with my second “weekly” Mewsings. This should be third Mewsings, but somehow missed last Sunday because my human did something else instead. He do part 2 of his snowshoeing adventure. I must say though, it was funny, had me rolling with laughter at thought of him hanging almost upside down in deep snow. He always do such funny things! However, taking my weekly spot, that not so funny. I wonder if all humans like that? Like my human in his story I mean. Very strange behavior anyway. Why he want to do such things, very hard to understand. Then he go out playing with bears! Sometimes I think he hit his head too many times, not think right anymore.😹
Every night it same thing. I wake up and want to do things and what my human do? He go to bed! At night! That best time to be awake, that when all exciting things happen. All those animals outside he not see because he want to sleep. We actually get some sunshine one day last week, that not happen very often this winter. Clouds, clouds every day, how I wish they go away. But they don’t. Anyway, we get sunny day so I go up to my favorite spot on TV cabinet and sleep in sun. My human like to keep some plants up there too, so they get sunshine. But there lots of room to curl up for me.

But sometimes I like to stretch a bit, when sleeping in sun especially. So I stretch. Not my fault that plants move so easily. My human sitting at his box thingy and he look at me, oh my, should have seen look on his face!🙀 He got up quick as he could, which not very fast, but that different story. Down go plant onto floor and wow, look at dirt fly all over the place. Too bad he just water it so dirt wet, all over carpet. He just stand there looking. He think dirt going to jump back in pot if he stare long enough?😸
Then he notice second plant on other side that almost slipping off cabinet too. He run over to catch it but guess he forget about wet dirt, which he step in, which make him jump a bit, which make him push plant off cabinet on other side. Now wet dirt behind cabinet too. Can’t blame me for that one, he knock it off. That mean one for each of us!😹 He just stand there with head down doing human purring again. So sweet! Oh well, he not need all those plants anyway. He have lots more.

Then he take off dirty sock so he not drag dirt all over apartment. He stand on one foot while doing this, not good idea. He start losing balance and hop all around in dirt, make big mess. And he worried about me making mess, he worse. But he kept on with human purring a long time so I know he happy even after making mess. My human good that way. Still not sure why he call it groaning, human purring nicer name, and it sound nice too. But it such good day with all that sunshine. Well, that all for today, thank you for reading my Mewsings! Please come back again and have great day!
Muffin (as meowed to her human).
©2021 Steve McLeod.
Good morning to everyone on this beautiful Sunday! Grab yourself a cup of coffee and relax with Muffin and I for a few minutes. It’s another cloudy morning with just a little light snow. And there is a lot of bird activity today, including that shrike that just arrived again. The blue jays sounded the alarm and all the small birds disappeared while the jays went after the shrike. It doesn’t take long, that shrike knows better than to try and fight a bunch of blue jays, even if there is only 2 or 3. Blue jays know how to fight that shrike and they are not afraid to do so. I’m sure they have saved a lot of birds at my feeder by chasing that shrike away. It’s all clear now and the little birds are back at the feeders, well, all except the evening grosbeaks. They flew quite a distance when that shrike appeared.

Shrikes generally want the smaller birds though and even the grosbeaks are a bit big and hard to catch. However, if the shrike hasn’t eaten for awhile it will go after just about anything. Normally it’s chickadees, nuthatches and redpolls that are on their menu, the smallest and easiest to catch birds, the ones that can’t fight back. Even redpolls are not often on their list since they also fly fast and erratic, though the shrike can too. Theodore was here this morning so I went out to get some pics and talk to him a bit. He likes to come early so it’s not very good light for pics, but I tried anyway.

“Hey, your tail is looking a lot better now Theodore.” Gerbil, gerbil. “You’re sitting in bigger trees now that have bigger branches, smart idea, easier on the tail feathers.” Gerbil, gerbil. “It’s cold this morning? Why it’s only -12C (10F), it’s going to get colder this week.” Gerbil, gerbil? “Yes, it gets colder than this.” Gerbil, gerbil. “No, you won’t die, you have good warm feathers.” Gerbil, gerbil. “Well, yes, you do have long legs with no feathers on them, you have to sit on your legs.” Gerbil, gerbil. “True, that does make it hard to walk around in the snow, and the snow is cold.” Gerbil, gerbil? “At least 3 more months of winter, maybe more.” Gerbil, gerbil. “No, you won’t die, you’re tough. Have a nice day.” Gerbil, gerbil. Poor Theodore. Well, I hope you enjoy the bright sunny flower pics, have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.