Ahoy Matey, Foreign Fur

 "Fe Fi Fo Fum,  I smell the furs of a fureiner.  Lynn why do yer legs smell funny."

I have seen this young cat on the bike path a few times this

year.  It is always in close proximity to a nice house that

has 3 horses and a small stable.  No idea if it is a barn cat

or just one that was born close enough to stay around.

  

I didn't give much thought to it rubbing all over my legs

until I biked away.  Once I got off a ways I wondered about

the chance of getting poison ivy from it's fur.  I took my

drinking water and a paper towel I carry and washed off

as best as I could.  Never did get poison ivy, thank goodness.

"I would have loved to scratch your itchies with my

sharp claws if you'da got poison ivy, Lynn.  I really

could have dug in deep and maybe made it bleed

out the poison."

Precious and I want to give Willie an early

"Happy Birthday" wish.  He will turn 39 on 

September 21,  forever young.

"I got invited aboard the Big Ship Lollypop!

I'm gonna cook fur the Pirates."

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Chicken Little? Or little chicken?

"Lynn,  is this the farm where my chicken crunchies grow?  Why don't you stop and go in and git me more?"

I ride my bike by these buildings almost every time I'm out.

Chicken farms are a big industry in our county and you

see buildings like this every where on the rural roads.

  These are not egg farms though some one must provide the

eggs that hatch.  These are for eating chicken dinners.

Amazingly they emit no smell until time to clean out the

basement septics and then the worst smell is they spread

it on all the farm fields around.  Then you can not miss

the stink in the air even a few miles away.

"Why is my bowl empty if all these burds live so close?"

The end of summer pink flowers.  Sedum with honey bees.

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Water water evfurry where

 "You didn't jump in and go swimming did you Lynn?"

"You know water is only good fur drinkin'.  I totally disapprove

of gittin' my body wet."

Said by a cat who sat out in the dark and got drizzled on

while eating moths just recently.

No worries about me swimming here Precious.  The water is 

clean and clear but it is the sand quarry pit.

I bike by here all the time,  but I had to climb up the dike

to peer over on a day they were closed for work.

It has really gotten bigger in the 10 years or less that they

have been digging here.  There is a corn field behind the

huge dredge that will be next to go.  It might last them

another 10 years or less.

"This how I like my water.  Cold and in a cup meant 

fur me."

My other color Rose of Sharon bush.  Hummingbirds love it.

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Meet and Great

 "Lynn,  you got any idea how long I been waitin' fur you to git home?"

Precious met me at the back door when I got home from a 

bike ride.  This is one time she sat right there as I came in.

She usually runs into the bedroom around the corner.

"I was worried 'bout you.  You know I was not thinkin' of 

my tummy at all."

Yes, Precious.  I know.  But we did make it out to the food

dish and got something, didn't we.

"Look what Lynn got a few weeks ago.  She went shopping

on Etsy fur the furst time evfur and it was at the

CBWhiskersAndPaws page fur the Cat Blogosphere.

She's using the new bag fur library books.  And she was happy

to choose the colors fur the cup and clothes.  We are 

blue lovers as you kin see."

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On flower duty

 "I have to be on guard duty to keep the flower pots safe."

"The vizshuz deer must be stopped.  And I am the one to do it.

My fence is magical.  No breaking into the catio furom them."

"But I have to be vigilant.  They can be sneaky, like comin'

'round when I'm nappin'."

marigolds

white snap dragon that the seed was off a red one

red snapdragon that is the color of the original

"And just look who showed up.  He's a young bun wanting

to eat flowers.  No Way!  And wouldn't you just know it

but one eve when I was fast asleep on Lynn's legs during

our 3 hour time,  a squirrel squeezed under the catio fence

and tried digging in the flower pots.  I missed the whole

thing as Lynn did not wake me up!"

"I'm helpin' butterflies hatch."

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Milk Eggs and Honey

 "Lynn,  what's up with this!"

"You find some of the silliest things to show on my post!"

"These cows don't look all that huggable like me.

And I don't think they are gonna give milk 'cept to

those calves."

"And here you are showing off yer cat stab wounds.

What's with the hole in the ground?"

This is where one of the snapping turtles laid her eggs back in

late May or early June, Precious.

"Lynn,  did those eggs hatch?  I see all the shells.

Did you eat eggs without me!"

No, sadly for momma turtle and her hard work one time

a year,  a hungry racoon found the nest and had one

heck of great egg breakfast.

"And how do you think yer gonna git honey outta those bees?

I don't think Winnie the Pooh is gonna show you the honey

hive tree. Just 'cause you feed 'em sugar water?"

"Egg breakfast!  Now yer talkin'.  Let's eat."

First rose of Sharon bushes to open.

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OLD Mother Hubbard (Lynn)

 "Lived inna shoe. Had so many caterpillars she didn't know what to do.  Seney's pink swamp milkweed sure has brung us lotsa

caterpillars this year."

I only have two plants in her flower bed, and I keep 

finding eggs and even baby pillars that I have missed.

But I actually have not seen that many butterflies!

They must be fluttering by when I'm not looking.

can you see the tiny green speck?  eggs.

"Lookie hoomans, one hatched!"

"They chew non-stop.  Lynn feeds them all they want.

I just git bits atta time."

"They are too close to my box.  What if they invade it?"

"Lynn says she'll keep a paw count and late October

she'll try to 'member to tell you how many.  Fur

me it is Nightmare on Elm street afore Halloween."

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