Deer Friends For Dinner

     Had humans in for dinner last night, they joined us, we didn’t eat them, just wanted to be clear. We’ve been friends a long time, it was great to see them. We got all caught up on each other’s lives, sat outside most of the time, a beautiful evening with beautiful people. We even had an uninvited visitor, if you knew what a densely populated hub of humanity we live in you would know how exciting it is to see 200 pound wild animals in your yard!

Raccoon Attacks Squirrel Feeder in Perry Hall

Squirrel feeders are a thing to have, the little rascals attack the feeder with gusto of a hound dog. Small birds are attracted them, woodpeckers, cool to watch them have at it. The got home tonight and called me on the phone, told me to look out at the feeder. We had large adult size raccoon on the feeder, a raccoon! The wife is scared to go out to the trash, and I ain't going! I thought we had a badger once, but it was a groundhog, but man we have some wildlife here in suburbia, and I'm not talking about the summer parties at the Neighbors house!

Maryland Backyard Wildlife

The backyard wildlife is great right now, all the sparrows have left for Capistrano. We have a ton of cardinals, blue jays, finches, even woodpeckers and a small bluish bird that I can't figure out. Just so happens we have the fattest squirrels in Maryland, squirrels that prefer sunflowers over acorns, I thought they lived on acorns. A new pride of feral cats are here, beautiful Siamese blends, shame we have to get rid of them. Think the cats chased away the chipmunks, or ate em? It's been fun watching this year.

Butterfly Garden, MS and Fever, and Electric Tricycle Design

The butterflies have been lots of fun to watch this year, all kinds and colors. We have 2 purple butterfly bushes, and they love those things, Crazy, I know! We have been able to attract a couple of hummingbirds as well this year, they are just harder to take pictures of. I'm going to plan a full out butterfly-hummingbird garden in the front corner of the backyard, on the drunk neighbor side. People that have been here will know exactly where I mean! Next year I will have the little critters crawling all over me.





Tripped over an area rug the other day, in a snit rolled it up, going to throw it out. Vacuumed the entire upstairs, cleaned out the vacuum filters, all the dust and grime made me sick. Yesterday had a sore throat, ran a low grade fever, which kills me. I was delirious in the middle of the night, thought I was the king of Prussia! Slept most of the day yesterday, worst part was in the middle of the night I couldn't walk. I may have been able to walk, don't know, couldn't stand up, so I don't know. Fever seems to be gone, can walk, even my back doesn't hurt too bad, everything is looking up.

I'm still in the planning stages with my tricycle transformation, haven't done too much else. Joined an EV forum, electric vehicles, read everything I could find on it. Have to schedule a day to go down to visit with Lenny the wheelchair guy, see what info I can pick his brain for. I read about sprocket reduction ratios, chain length, direct drive shaft motors, yeah, I don't know the hell they are talking about! I'll figure it though, I will have my electric tricycle.