Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #2.
Good morning! I hope all of you are feeling well and ready to enjoy another day! Time to grab a cup of coffee and relax for a few minutes while we take a short look around us this morning. It is heavy clouds once more, but milder feeling, though quite frosty out there. That frost always adds a bit of slipperiness to the deck, but I was expecting it this time so didn’t do my usual sliding routine. That was nice. As I was tossing out the peanuts for the blue jays I heard the familiar chirping of the evening grosbeaks. Good, I thought, and I took out some sunflower seeds. That grosbeak’s chirping became much louder and more excited as I spread the seeds on the feeder. Soon she was down, feasting away. Just one.
Hmm, that’s odd. She had her fill and was off again. No others have come. Very strange this year feeding birds. The feeders should be at their busiest in the morning. There really is no busy time this winter, very few birds are showing up. Yesterday afternoon Jasper, my squirrel buddy, showed up and since it wasn’t too cold I sat out there and talked to him for a bit. He sat there eating his peanut. “How’s it going looking for a mate?” Loud chip. “Oh, sorry, bad subject.” Chip? “I don’t have a mate so why do you need one? Well it’s different for me, you should have a mate, then you get baby squirrels and one of them will grow up and chase you away from your territory.” Loud chip.
“That’s the way it works with squirrels.” Chip. “Oh, now you’ve decided to stay single?” Chip. “Hmm, you don’t want to lose all this good food? Smart. But you should move closer, you have a long ways to carry your peanuts back home.” Chip. “Oh, no place to live over here.” Chip. “The rocks along the hill here are no good?” Chip. “Oh, can’t dig deep enough due to solid rock.” Chip. “Yes, the neighbor tore down his shed, that was a nice place to live.” He looks at me. “Here’s another peanut.” And off he runs back home. Today we have two hairy woodpecker pics to share, a female and male, with red spots on his head. I hope you enjoyed your cup of coffee, have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Weekly Mewsings #1.
Hi everyone! My name Muffin and I’m here to share some fun and info with you all. My human first say we do this once a month and I say, hey, not fair, you have yours every day and me only once a month. Then he say we call it Muffin’s Weekly Mewsings. Oh that good, I like that! Then he say we do it twice a month. I say, hey, I can read, ‘weekly’ mean once a week, not twice a month. So I say, how you like to have sore feet? So now it is once a week! Yay! I happy now. I hope you will like my mewsings. We have some fun, that for sure.
The other day my human he walking in kitchen and he kick bag of potatoes that sitting on floor. Bag of potatoes go sliding across floor so he must have kicked hard. Then he start dancing on one leg while holding his other foot and doing his beautiful human purring again. You know, the one he call groaning! He look so funny hopping on one leg. Then he put down foot and bend over at same time so he bang head on counter! Now he holding head and purring even more and then he back up and hit back on corner of fridge and he go OOOOOOOOOO and his eyes get real big and bulging! Oh what a funny face he make! That really get me laughing and I roll on floor kicking legs in air and getting sore tummy from laughing so much!
My human, he just so much fun, every day he do things just to make me laugh! I never thought I would get a human like him, this is just great. Of course, there are times he do strange things. Like when he walking past me one day and he step on my tail! I could not believe he do that, but he did. He say it just accident. How it be accident, easy to see my tail, what he think it was, snake?! So I bite foot. Now he get point, it was bare foot too, he really feel that. And such a look on his face too! Hahahahaha! We have such fun together. Well, that all for today, I back again next week, bye for now!
Muffin (as meowed to my human Steve)
©2020 Steve McLeod.
