Hummmmm!

Ah, this one's a little better. We have three hummingbirds back on the feeder. This one was earlier today. The focus button on the camera seemed to work fine on this one. These are pretty birds. I am glad that they visit JJ's garden frequently. Big Lady and Patrick like them too, although sometimes Patrick forgets that they are not bumblebees and tries to leap up in the air after them. They are very dainty. And not nearly as messy as the sparrows.

I love my backyard. I think Big Lady and Big Guy love it too.

Leave it aloooooooooooooone!

Big Lady is funny. She says the darndest things. Tonight, we were out filling up the bird feeders and I was poking around in the flowers, and out popped toadie up on the wall of the house by the deck. Well, we're not sure if it's a toadie configured to look like a rattlesnake, or a frog wearing a camoflage fatigues. His paws would suggest frog. I think Big Lady must never have disected frogs in high school biology. My guess is a frog, but he has diamond brown markings. What do you think? Toadie? or Froggie? Either way, Big Lady was in a shriek. She told us to leave it alone because she wanted it to hang around and eat mosquitoes. Well, we have enough of those, so it should get fat and grow up pretty quick. She told Patrick and I later that Uncle Rusty, who has gone on to the Rainbow Bridge, was once stung in the eye by a toad, so we were admonished quickly to leave it alone and go in the house. We notice that she snuck back out with the camera. Too bad she's not too good with that focus button yet on the new camera. !

Sunny Bunny!

Perhaps Bunny some day will have his own blog, as Patrick and I are keenly convinced he is watching us. Or perhaps he is just happy to sit in the shade of the rose garden and munch on birdseed.

Either way, it is hot. Patrick and I are ready for winter. We already have our winter coats. Bunny looks like he has one as well. The birds have feathers, Big Lady and Big Guy have skins and hair, too.

Big Guy reported that the deck registered 107F in the sun today. We had hot paws, but Big Guy put some ice cubes in our water cooler and so we had lots of cold water to drink. Big Lady observed that we were drooling and dribbling water clear across the dining room floor, but I told her this is how we keep our paws cool on the floor... first we drink, then we dribble, then we pad across the dribble to keep our pads moist. :_) Clever, huh?

Anyhow, Bunny was around today. Notice that Big Lady has a better camera these days, so the detail is a little better :_)