Here we go again! We didn't hear too much noise on July fourth, but yesterday night it was in abundance, and a lot closer than the ones at the airport on the 4th. Benji is a bit clingy but not hiding, and Dalton seems to not be outwardly bothered, though he gets his usual CBD each evening.
During the week, one night they went out for a last bedtime business and OMD, What a hullabaloo they were making...so Petcretary ran outside with a flashlight, and they had a big opossum cornered under the cheery tree...actually under the shrubbery around it. However before she could corral Benji, he had that opossum by the neck and gave it a few good terrier shakes and then dropped it...sigh...to late to be rescued and released out of our yard...so Petcretary shooed us insu]ide and got the opossum picked up and gave it a funeral, all by herself, no attendees to mourn it other than herself. Sheesh, she likes those creatures, but its very hard to undo the hardwired instincts of terriers when they sense a prey...sigh...
Thankfully no more critters came into our dangerous terriertory! So now its one groundhog, one squirrel, one opossum...and who knows how many moles, voles and mice. *she* did shoo a garden snake to safer hunting grounds...(Last year they had a young racoon, and 2 possums...)We need a sign..,beware of dogs, enter at own risk. (We think these critters come in by way of the tree canopy, searching for all the yummy mulberries and other edibles; good thing we do not have a veggie garden!)
Tree cleanup continues, little by little...have not seen any poison ivy, but Petcretsry is beginnong to think she might just be over reactive to virginia creeper which is ubiquitous all over our yard, and she tries hard to keep it from climbing on all the trees in the wooded area of the yard. However the neighbors' trees are covered with them and also invasive (Non-native)-bittersweet, we think all those vines contributed to the demise of all the trees during that bad storm session in mid May.
OK, here are some more images from our patriotic photo session, thay are goind to be our selfies and ussies for this week's Sunday Selfies Blog hop!
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We are hopping along with many others at The Cast On my Head who are the weekly hosts of this fun hop.Thanks for hosting, Kitties Blue! |