CCW, for those who don’t know, is short for concealed carry weapon. Last Sunday Glen opened up our backyard gun range and let some women who are studying to obtain their ccw permit, come out and practice shooting their guns.
Ready……Aim……
Fire! Nice shooting.
They did a good job. They were out back practicing for about 3 hours. I am sure they will pass their test and obtain their permit.
I know bugs are necessary, but I will admit, I have a definite phobia when it comes to them.
Luckily this guy was outside so we had a nice glass barrier between us. Unfortunately, I went and googled praying mantis and found this webpage which creeped me out even more….I thought they just ate other bugs. I didn’t know they could take down a bird!
I washed the dog beds that go in their crates before we left for vacation. Lilly loves to nap on anything that is fresh and clean.
Our dog, Lucy, loves to be outside in the evenings now that the temperature has started cooling down. Sunday evening it got to be time to go to bed so I went to let her in. She was laying on the front porch but was reluctant to come to me. I didn’t think anything about it. Finally, after calling her a couple of times she got up and ran inside. To my horror, there was a very small possum laying next to where Lucy had been. When I say small possum, I mean it had to be this years model and booted from momma’s pouch not too long ago. I stood there watching it when it started to stir. Silly thing had been playing dead. I was very worried it had been damaged by Lucy so Glen and I went out and it immediately played dead again. We inspected it as best we could and didn’t see any blood so we decided to let it be and see if it would leave or stay on the porch. Luckily, as soon as the porch light went out the little fella took off at a fast pace. We have no idea if Lucy was playing with it or if she was babying it because the poor thing was very wet with her slobber…..so rough housing or giving it a bath? Thank you God for her not finding a skunk!
I know it looks like the little guy is bleeding in the picture, but I assure you, it is slobber.
For the first day of fall Glen and I decided to take a little food adventure. We cooked up butternut squash and roasted garlic bisque. I found the recipe here. I have always been very leery of butternut squash because of its tendency to taste pumpkiny. My fears were for naught. The soup was very very good. Plus, an added bonus, I got to use the hand held blender.
Yesterday evening a weather front moved in bringing thunderstorms in it’s path. No sleep with our fraidy dog Petey.
All of our pets were very glad when we got back from vacation. They all demanded equal love time.
Petey has the art of being a love sponge down to a fine art
Glen and I got home late Sunday night. We didn’t get a chance to sleep in because our crazy birds knew we were home and squawked and screeched until we got up. I just happened to look outside and saw three turkey vultures at the end of our driveway. Apparently something got struck by a car and killed while we were gone and the clean up crew had arrived.
Have no idea what they were consuming because when we left mid morning to go get the cat from the vet’s office it was all gone. Very nice that they cleaned everything up…..but kind of gross too.
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