Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Off my back porch

I love my back porch. The only thing that would make it better is if it were screened in. In fact, anyone who visits will stand on the porch and say, "You know. This would be really great screened in."  Haha As if that's the first time I've heard that. Nevertheless, I sit out on my wicker sofa and watch the birds. The birds are watchful of me, but I think they're just happy to be able to get to the feeder because I scare off the squirrels. The squirrels scamper thru the rafters and into neighboring trees and chatter. I don't speak squirrel, but I'm pretty sure they are slinging squirrel-obsenities my way. 

This little guy is so funny. He bounces when he flies. Very cute.

Our state bird representing.

Hummingbirds; my favourite thing to watch. I have one little guy who actually 

perches while he's feeding. Haven't been able to get a pic of it, tho.

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View out my living room window. See the girls?

They are hidden in the bush!

Millie peeks out.

Sweet Maggie.

From a different angle, they're not really hiding . . . 

They're just hanging out.  :-)

Annual 4th of July Concert

I'm meeting Pioneer Sister & kiddliewinks for the annual picnic/concert/fireworks. The Front Royal Oratorio Society sings patriotic songs, followed by the fireworks. Mum won't be singing this year because she's in Australia, but we will be there to represent. I told her we would field the "where-is-your-mother" questions. The video above was taken a couple years ago. That's my nephew saying, "AWESOME!"  I have another (longer) clip of him saying, "This is better than Christmas!" Spoken like a true Visual. He's a boy after my own heart. Happy 4th of July, everyone on this 3rd day of July.  :-)

Funny Friday

Go over there. No wait, stay there. That's it. Stay! There! What could this possibly be about, you may ask?



Can you imagine the marketing meeting for this? "We need something that lets our customers know that they don't have to worry about the the jostling, the juggling, the jiggling. We've got Stay There POWER!"

And they trademarked it.

Random Seinfeld reference:
Frank Costanza: Do you know about cup sizes?
George: Yeah, I know about cup sizes.
Frank: You gotchyer A, you gotchyer B . . .

And for the next bit of randomness:

Stay There Power not required?

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Summer Time for Maggie & Millie

View off the back porch:

Back Scratchin' Millie.

Hullo.

Zzzzzzz . . . .

The girls were hanging out in the yard . . .

Ever vigilant.

And then they saw something, & off they go!

Yesterday, the girls were all barky & watching out the window like it was TV.

The source of their fascination?

Neighbor Dave on his tractor.

Lazy Dazy Summer Time. :-)

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On the Ramp

Millie leads the way . . .

Maggie sniffs the air.

The double Stop 'n' Sniff.

Millie does the Stop 'n' Won't Go.

Maggie makes her escape.

Maggie is fond of the Stop 'n' Plop.

Back up the ramp. :-)