Caturday – 21/10/2017 – Reptile Awareness Day

Still no sign of the wild rabbit so I am hoping that it has moved on.
Had a busy Saturday with daughter and son in law splitting part of a mountain of tree rings into firewood for several hours and then visiting a plant nursery. Got myself some sweet Spanish pepper plants so I can make more smoked paprika again. Also got tomatoes and plenty of flowers for Summer flowering. We still have the equinox winds battering us day and night and we are so over them. Time I headed for bed.

Happy Caturday all! AV, sounds very busy at your house–at least you don’t have to do it!! Relaxing on the porch with a book and a cat sounds divine! Hope Mr. AV is feeling better each day too. It is very warm here also, though not as warm as where you are. But mid week we are expecting temps to only be in the 50’s for a high, which will be welcomed, but pretty cool. Sweatshirts will actually feel good during the day!!

Well, I’m fascinated by reptiles, but not really wanting to have them as pets. They are surely interesting and I’ll bet my cats would love to play with a lizard or two. They were acting strange one day last fall and I went to investigate only to find a little garter snake curled up behind my sofa in the stove room. The cats had ‘paw pounded’ him into submission and I rescued him by taking him outside. I think he entered somehow through the porch/wall. I’m not afraid of snakes probably because we just don’t have any poisonous ones in my area. I like to see them in the barns killing rats and mice though and they can get pretty large. I just wish we had more owls and big raptors hanging out in the barns these days. We do have red tailed hawks and they are just magnificent!

Oh I don’t know where to start with the pics, they’re all so funny and cute! This morning when I let Dewey out, Star was playing with a chipmunk. The little guy got a break because breakfast from the food lady is more important to Star; she came running to me as soon as I went outside. Dewey saw it though, and it climbed the stake of one of my tomato plants to get away from him. Poor guy was literally hanging on for dear life and when I left for work he made a break for it, and scurried under a shelter. No sign of the critter when I got home so it looks like a certain chipmunk’s lucky day! Also when I got home Huey was in the back of the cubby playing with something – a snake purrhaps?

Feeling somewhat accomplished today. Saw a post on my hometown’s fb page of a clothing drive at the high school. Since I just cleaned out my closet recently, I had a few bags of clothes and shoes to drop off at my former high school.

No snakes in NZ but we do have tuatara. They are rare, medium-sized reptiles found only in New Zealand. They are the last survivors of an order of reptiles that thrived in the age of the dinosaurs.
We also have skinks and geckos and at the moment we seem to have masses of skinks around the house, step outside and there is a scuttling in the leaves or a dashing across the warm bricks and rocks. They are so cute.
While Meegz and hubby were in Australia recently they got to handle some harmless snakes and said they were quite velvety to touch.
Anyhoo time I went nutty and headed on over to the next Cafe.

Happy Sunday all! ….. We have thousands of lizzards and snakes around here, in addition to alligators ……. Son had an iguana and a python as pets when he was in college (they have since been rehomed) the snake was cool, he used to get lost, curled up in the drawer with his belts ….. once we were ‘on to’ him, he was easy to find …… LOL

Caddy and I finished our book yesterday, so I think I’ll head to Barnes and Noble later for a new one! ….. just reading a murder/myster series ….. simple but entertaining ….. I’m a fast reader, to me reading is mindless and relaxing, as long as it tells a good story and keeps my interest …..