Hey, let's play a game: two truths and a lie. Which of the following 3 options is NOT true:
During the last 48 hours, we have seen the following within 30 feet of our condo's front door:
1. a 3 foot stalk of corn growing
2. a baby gator
3. an adult otter
(answer at bottom)
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I've heard this is the Winter of the Acorns-- every so often, the oak trees drop an overabundance of acorns to make absolute sure the squirrels and their relations don't eat up all the "oak seeds". And you know what? It's TRUE! All over our driveway and yard, there are hundreds or even thousands of these little acorns.
Kaden and Ihave had much fun piling them all into his dump truck, driving them across the concrete, and pouring them into a wee depression in the ground. I wanted to see how many we could collect, but after asking a zillion questions and realizing that the ACORNS were actually SEEDS that would grow into TREES, Kaden began planting them all over the yard.
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The burrowing owls are back. Well, coming back to roost anyway. I think they stay around, but we are starting to see them back at the burrows. Which means soon they'll be pairing off, and then we'll have cute fuzzy baby owls to take pictures of and point out on our walks! Did you know they're endangered? So if you have property and want to build and there's an occupied burrow there: too bad for you, sucker. (It's funny until it's your friend.)
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You'd think we'd see baby gators all over the place, right? Well, we do, sortof. But not near our front door. Nay, folks, we've a 3 foot corn stalk, complete with tassels, bursting out of our potted garden.
And a HUGE otter ran down the side yard yesterday evening, ducking into a culvert, then making a mad dash towards the neighbors, whose dog began to chase it... and that's all we know. Sorry, we're not CNN, folks! I don't even have a blurry picture to get you to squint funny and disagree with me. But JimDad and Kade and TWO other neighbors saw the otter, too- so there.
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What wild things are happening near you?!
1 comment:
The only wild things around here are my unruly children...LOL!
I am most jealous of your outside time...it is so darn cold here right now which makes it tough to get out with all 3 kids. (And I am not a fan of the cold myself). My guess was the corn stalk :(
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