Archive for 'wildlife'

Six Reasons Not to Walk After Dark

Sep. 22, 2009 No Comments Posted under: exercise, florida living, wildlife

1. Coyotes. Anything that looks like a dog but isn’t, and eats livestock…shudder.
2. Mutant mosquitoes. I probably got that new disease out of Africa, the one that the enormous freaky striped mosquitoes carry. Any mosquito that can create a breeze as it flies by is too stinking big.
3. It’s too hot to exercise. [...]

Sunset Cruise

Aug. 24, 2009 3 Comments Posted under: florida living, poodles, wildlife

Yesterday, the husband and I took a little sunset cruise.  It’s the perfect time of day to be out on the water.  We cruised around a little bit, let the dogs bark at the pelicans and seagulls (their favorite thing to do on the boat), then decided to head back to the marina.  As we [...]

Wildlife

Jul. 22, 2009 5 Comments Posted under: florida living, wildlife

The other night we saw a huge coyote on the golf course.  I didn’t get close enough to it to take its picture (unlike my friend Brenda Minton who does take pictures of dangerous wildlife ) but it looked something like this:

Seriously.

Wildlife

Apr. 6, 2009 7 Comments Posted under: florida living, wildlife

I’ve been really jealous of the people who live on the other ponds in our neighborhood. They have ducks and turtles and stuff and ours was just…a pond. I even considered buying a couple of ducks for the pond. I love ducks. Maybe it goes back to the baby duck I [...]

Big Bird

Feb. 19, 2009 No Comments Posted under: wildlife

These Great Blue Herons are a common sight down here along the coast. They’re funny birds. They love fish. When my kids were little they used to love to play chase with them down the beach. It was hilarious…the birds with their long-legged strut and the little ones toddling behind, their giggles carrying back on [...]

Rescue

Dec. 1, 2008 2 Comments Posted under: frogs, wildlife

Our new house has a pool. It was on my wish list since I have teenagers and it’s between 80 and 100 degrees here a good portion of the year. I didn’t know that rescue missions would become a routine part of my mornings. But there you go…

This little guy was really cold.

Turtles don’t like Cheerios

Nov. 21, 2008 4 Comments Posted under: turtles, wildlife

In our new neighborhood we have lots of ponds. I love them. I love the way the sun sets over them in the evening. I love the way the moon shines on them when I get up waaaaay too early in the morning. (Thank you, first child, who just had to go to school this [...]

Wildlife

Nov. 10, 2008 2 Comments Posted under: jill shalvis, poodles, squirrels, wildlife

So, Author Jill Shalvis has bears at her house. I have wildlife at my house, too. Squirrels. They drive my dogs crazy. So much so that we have to have a talk with the dogs before we let them out of the house. “I mean it, no barking at the squirrels.”
Honey and C.C. (our two [...]