Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Beautiful Monday.
Good morning everyone! I hope today finds all of you so happy you’re just jumping up and down for joy. No? Well, come on then, you can do it! Put your hands on the desk or table, standing on your finger tips. Now jump up and down, but alternate between hands, don’t jump both at the same time. See how many times you can do it without messing up which hand is supposed to jump. Do it as fast as you can. Can’t tell me you’re not smiling now. Sounds silly? Hey, it works. See? You’re already feeling better. It’s Monday and it’s a beautiful day. It’s a beautiful day because I choose to make it one.
I’m getting a great collection of mushroom pictures. They can be quite fascinating. All the different sizes, shapes and colors. Found one on Friday that was 8 inches (20cm) across. There was another one that was less than half an inch (1cm) across. It’s stem was like a thread. I couldn’t get a good picture of that one unfortunately. I like to try and get a picture underneath the mushroom too if I can. I have to lie down on the wet ground to do it though. Gets me wet and dirty. Who cares? I can clean up when I get home.
I was doing this the other day, flat on the ground trying to get a picture under this mushroom. A lady came walking along the path and stopped when she saw me. I looked up and told her what I was doing. She rolled her eyes and walked away rather quickly. Some people are just strange. Oh well. That’s the way it goes. Obviously she wasn’t a photographer.
Sometimes it’s not easy getting the right angle for a good picture of these mushrooms. One was on the side of a rock face which was covered with moss. I had to hang over the edge of the rock to get a good picture. I hooked my foot around a tree stump so I wouldn’t fall over the edge completely. Getting back up was a bit of a problem though. Took a while. Same thing taking a picture of that one snake. I lying on my stomach, downhill, rather steep so I could get a nice picture of it. But getting back up without sliding further down, which wouldn’t have been a good idea, it just wasn’t easy.
But these things are worth it to get a good picture. As long as I don’t get hurt in the process. And I am being careful these days. I hope you are enjoying your Monday, God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
Making Your Human Happy!
Hi again everyone! I am so excited that my human is letting me write a post of my own on his blog again! Of course, I do need a little help. For some reason my human just doesn’t like me doing my own typing. Very odd. He is even going to let me use some of his pictures. I didn’t even have to bite his feet. I just looked at them. But he is very easy to please and make happy. All I have to do is rub against his legs when he gets up in the morning. That makes him wave his arms frantically in joy.
Then he does his funny happy dance, bumping into furniture, still waving his arms until he finally sits down or lies down on the floor, laughing the whole time! At least I think he’s laughing. He’s making lots of strange noises anyway. Then when he finally stops he makes this odd noise that I call ‘human purring’. My human calls it groaning, kind of an odd name for it. Oh well.
And one time I jumped onto the top of his bookcase where he keeps lots of cool stuff. Not sure why he puts it up so high. Anyway, my human saw me up there and you should have seen how happy he was! He was pulling his hair and jumping up and down, doing his little happy dance again, the whole time looking up at me. He should have been watching what he was doing instead I think, because he kicked the table leg. Then he started jumping up and down on one leg!
Not a good idea, I thought, he might fall doing that. So I decided to attract his attention by laying down and pushing one of those glass kerosene lamps close to the edge of the shelf. You should have seen him jump then, he doesn’t often move that fast! He grabbed a chair and jumped on it so fast! Never a good idea, too easy to fall. Anyway, he grabbed that lamp real quick, then I guess he forgot he was standing on the chair and he just started walking away.
That first step got him. You should have seen the look on his face! Priceless! Down he went, but he didn’t drop that lamp. He put it on the table and then kicked the table leg with his other foot. He was back to jumping around on one leg again. I figured I better get down there and help him, he’s had enough fun for one day. My human even said he might let me do more blog posts for him. I sure would like that. Or I will bite his feet. I hope you all have a really wonderful day!
Muffin (with a little help from Steve)
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
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