Category Archives: Pets & critters

New Little blankets for Shelibean

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About 7 years ago, I made a post ‘WIP Wednesday – New Blankets for Shelibean’ It’s pictures of Sheli with his new blankets I crocheted for him from when he was a couple months old and when he was about 4 1/2 years old.
Shelibean is about 12 1/2 years old, I figure after the rough past few months he’s had, that he deserves some new blankets.
They’re handy for him to lay on or be covered up with. The best part is he recognizes them as his and it seems a comfort to him.
These blankets are a basic granny square crochet pattern of 18 double crochet rounds and a round of single crochet to finish the border, size I crochet hook, the yarn is what I have in my stash.

Shelibean and I wish you all a wonderful week.

Finished Gray C2C Square Afghan

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My gray ‘On the Bias Square Afghan’ is now finished.
Sheli loves it. He’s a big fan of just about any crochet project.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

 

 

We Got Babies – fawns – wee caterpillars

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Twin fawns and their Mom blessed us with a visit.
I apologize for the sad quality of the photos.
I took them through the double pane windows and screen.
Fortunately, they’re clear enough you can see the spots on the fawns.

The black swallowtail butterfly eggs started hatching. I was fortunate to see one right after it hatched and got a photo of it.
I haven’t seen it in the past couple days. I’m hoping it’s hiding under the leaves sheltering from the rain.

Wishing you a week of beautiful smiles.

 

Black Swallowtail Butterfly eggs 2024

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7-18-2024 My curly parsley and marigold pot was visited by a female black swallowtail butterfly.

She laid over a half dozen eggs over the plant.  I took a few photos of some of the eggs. So, pretty soon, there might be some baby caterpillars feeding and growing in the curly leaves.

If the eggs survive and hatch and we figure we’ll be shopping for more parsley soon to feed the brood of caterpillars.

Wishing you all a wonderful rest of the weekend.

 

 

Cameo Spider

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For me, one of the enjoyments of peonies is taking photos of the bugs, insects, ants, bees or arachnids feeding on their bloom-buds. I will refer to them as ‘feeders’ for the purpose of this post.
So, as I was taking photos of the ‘feeders’ I noticed a white spider. I took some photos of it and moved on. I didn’t think anything about it.
I loaded the photos on the computer, I view the photos large size so I can see the feeders in detail. I got a chuckle when I saw a slightly unsettling surprise on the spiders back; a sort of cameo face.
Then I noticed that sadly the poor little thing seems to have only 4 legs.

I was hesitant to share it here on my blog. I realize it could be a trigger for folks that have arachnophobia. I apologize in advance. I mean no harm. I’ve tried to make links instead of posting the photos in full view.  (Hopefully, I did the links right.  )

If you click on the link or the photo and don’t see the face on the spider’s back in the photos, it’s okay. Not everyone enjoys pareidolia as much as I do. 🙂

If you would like to see a large photo crop to see the face better, click here

Below is the peony photo. You can click on it to view a larger size.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

*By-the-way, I don’t care what the experts say about not needing feeders on peonies for them to bloom. In my experience, peony bloom buds without feeders shrivel and die.
One more thought: I do have one variety of yellow peony that never has feeders on it’s buds, and it blooms beautifully.