Everyday for Several Days Now

Trixie comes begging for food..

Lily Bit and Trixie

When I get home from

work I always open the back door

so Lily Bit can go onto the deck then

I let the dogs out off the deck.

Its been a tad warm, 90 today but

even wearing her fur coat she still

loves to hang out on the deck.

She brings me such happiness.

Yesterday Trixie came by.

Even with the dogs out in the back

she came, but she knows that if she

stays on the other side of those

boards and under the deck, dogs will

not be able to get to her. 

She meowed loudly yesterday so I fed her

and she dived into it.

This evening after I went to feed

at the barn she came again.

I took her more water and food.

She even allowed me to sat both

bowls over to her without backing

off. I got closer then I ever have.

But....she did end up hissing at me.

Poor baby. She left some food but

she enjoyed it while she was there.

Amazes me that she lives outside

and the white on her stays so 

pretty and bright. 

Molly May / Hawk

Sweet little Molly May. 

14 years old and no problem at all. 

She don't like to be held or

picked up...

Or at least she DID not. 

I do not have carpet on my stairs so

every night , I have to carry her

to bed. She is fine with it now.

In the morning I have to carry

her down the stairs. 

Only thing, she will not go out...

she uses pee pads in the house. 

Check out the tongue!

You see it sticking out?

HAHA....Years ago Molly

had a tooth that fell out on the side.

My daughter Amber works for a vet and 

she explained that those canine teeth on 

the side hold the tongue in. With it

gone, the tongue just hangs out

all the time. 

Today, I left my brothers house and 

heading down the road I saw this

guy sitting on the line.

My cell camera take good pics

but at a distance, not the best.

Times like this I wished I carried

my big camera with me all the time.

Cheyenne, Chey, Chey-bella

You have met Cheyenne before.

I have this habit of giving my

animals nicknames.

I took to calling Cheyenne, Chey.

But then all of a sudden it started

turning into 

Chey-bella!

I invision her as my French dog...

haha

Molly is Molly May

Dakota is Kota-Bug

or 

AKA THE KING.

Lily real name is Tigerlily

but I have called her Lily Bit or

someimtes she gets called 

Willie. 

Princess at the barn is

Pretty Princess.

Tigress is Tigress Girl

Shadow is just Shadow for now.

Anyway....I got off my reason for 

blogging.......

I was scrolling through pics and found

these pics of Chey-bella

as a babe.

OH....look at that face!

You see Cheyenne was my daughters

dog. But she is a runner so when Amber

was moving from a house to an apartment,

Amber asked mom to keep her till

they got moved.

Mom elected to keep her for fear that

she would run out once the door

was open and get hit in the 

parking lot.

Now, we all know that she is mine.

She is working out great here

and thank goodness for the

fence cause she is still a runner.

Wild Birds

Tennessee Wild Turkey 

Not be be mistaken for this 

Wild Turkey

which is made in Kentucky.

Although Kentucky is just a jump, 

skip and a hop away from 

TN....it is still not 

TN Wild Turkey.

Here we have an American 

Black Vulture.

Mind you, I had to look up the 

difference between a vulture and 

a buzzard.  Not realizing that it was not 

one in the same but going by

two different names. 

The pics above (internet images) of

the guy I normally see on the

side of the road eating off the 

dead bod of some animal that

failed to get out of the way of 

a car.

I always thought these were called

Turkey Buzzards but it appears

I was wrong. He is in fact

a vulture.

A turkey vulture.

They are really UGLY and they

have a face only a mom could 

LOVE!

Differences are~

Vulture has weak feet and can not pick up

dead prey on the side of the road. Hence

why you seeing them eating off the road.

They also have no feathers on their neck and head.

Buzzards however have strong feet and normally

do not eat off the road but pick up

live prey or steal from nest. 

They have feathers that cover 

their neck and head.

A hawk is a form of a Buzzard. 

~ Cardinals ~

This is the visitor we had this morn.

Have you ever watched your cat or

another cat dart away from a 

cardnial? 

Lily does even though she is on the deck.

So I did some reading on it a yr

of so ago but went back this morn

to refresh my stalled brain...

Cats unlike dogs see color.

However red is one color they

do not see. This surprises me since

Lily Bit loves the red laser light she

chases. But red appears as gray or

black to them. So a female cardnial being

lighter than the male probably looks

gray where the male might be

an over powering black to them.

Lily can be sitting on her perch on 

the deck....right in front

of the feeder, 

and be just fine.....UNTIL

a male cardnials come up.

She will jump down, meow and 

run, most times into the house.

The Sweet Barn Babes

My barn babes are so sweet.

Shadow hanging on Chris' deck at the 

farm. She had been chased under the

truck by the dog next door and this is 

a pic after she came out. 

Later she came up on the deck.

She did not come around me on 

the deck cause I had noticed she

had a hot spot under her neck so 

I treated it with peroxide so she

was trying to stay away!

Shadow is the one that has

an allergy to fleas however I 

treated her the first of the month.

I hope that this is not going to 

be an issue this summer with

having hot spots after being 

flea treated.

The two younger girls never

come up on the deck. 

But since I was up there this evening

and they heard me talking.....here

they came!

After being petted by me, Chris, 

Lisa and Tommy Princess finally

laid down.

Tigress seemed to enjoy her

time on the deck also. 

 

Aw.....my sweet barn babes love to 

be around me and I love it!

Yesterday I made up a 

spray bottle of fly spray..

I hate it when I go to feed and 

flies are all over Misfire.

Drives me nuts.

Anyway I sprayed her and 

Stormy, seemed to work a little.

Will keep you posted.

Basket Baby

There is know telling

where you will find this girl!

Drinking on a Hot Day

Misfire enjoying a nice drink 

on a hot day.

Misfire and the Hose

I have some of the funniest

animals.

No pic for this story so just

posting some I took the other day.

Yesterday I went to the barn

to feed and while filling the water

trough I decided to spray Misfire down.

She loves being sprayed down.

While doing that and trying to

fill the through (taking turns) Misfire

decided to drink from the hose.

It was so funny to watch. 

I would spray the water and 

she would put her mouth down

and start drinking.

She is just so funny.

Will try and remember to not leave

phine in the car today when I 

feed.

Watching a Moth

Lily - The Sweetest

I love this. 

Might have to see about painting it.

I took these pics last

night when Lily Bit

took over my chair. 

I love how she has those

legs stretched out.

But aren't cats so adorable when

they sleep and turn their faces up?

I just want to pick her up and love

on her.

Oops...tried to get a close up and 

she woke.

But not for long.

There again, look at those legs.

Odd position.