Hoerman's House
My life day to day
Archive for the tag “nature”
Spooky Spider
It is getting close to Halloween so thought I would share a picture of a spooky levitating spider.
Just kidding, this hairy beast had an awesome web that it was sitting in waiting for the next unsuspecting flying bug.
Front Yard…Land of Discovery
Glen discovered a persimmon tree growing in our front yard.
I had never eaten a persimmon before and thought I would give it a try. Lord have mercy, they were nasty because they weren’t ripe yet! We will give them a little while and try again. We will also have to cut open some of the seeds to see what the winter weather predictions are….so stay tuned for that one.
Barnyard Meeting
Glen always gets up before I do. With my crazy work schedule it is a guarantee that I am sleeping in when I can. So Sunday morning he gets up and notices a meeting taking place at the end of our driveway. Horses belonging to the neighbors to the east and the horses and cows belonging to the neighbor to the south. They appear to have been discussing something important.
Bugs creep me out
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!
Traumatizing a Possum
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.
Getting Cloudy
Yesterday evening a weather front moved in bringing thunderstorms in it’s path. No sleep with our fraidy dog Petey.
