Ketch-up Day

 

We're home! Our daughter recently had foot surgery so we went to Philly to spend a few days with her and the SIL. My job was to fill the squirrel, err, bird feeder. The regular-size squirrel shared the feeder with the birds.  Not Mr. Chubby. After he was done eating, Mr. Chubby--shown below--just sat in the feeder, refusing to let anyone else eat. Bad, Mr. Chubby.  Bad. Bad. Bad.

Harry and Holly's job is to keep our daughter company while she's laid up.  As you can see, they take their work very seriously.

And then, we headed home on the Choo-choo. Our normally eleven hour trip was fourteen.  Don't know what was going on there.

AND back at home:

Callie and Nori.

AND  a Belated Happy Birthday to J.P. and Janet.

Okay, it's your turn. Catch me up, Blogger Buds.

 

 

Ketch-Up Day

 

How are you? 

We have gone (Thank you, David) from 100 degrees to temps in the 60s.  Can't recall that one in August before. 

The butterflies have arrived and are visiting here. They do love the Butterfly Bushes. So does the occasional hummer and hummer moth.

 

 

 

 

This little fellow indow, kept me entertained while I was in the dental chair:)

 

AND

Has anyone had the cranberry nut bread from Publix? Oh my goodness. It's so very good.

AND *Alert*

Just a heads up, so you don't stumble into the same thing I did. I visited Melody Jacobs site and when I hit continue, the bells and whistles began to shriek with warnings, letting me know I was in malware territory.

In case you need it, I found this article helpful.

What to do if you accidentally visit a malicious website 

 

That's it for now. 

Had any of that bread? Is your temperature fluctuating like crazy? Got butterflies? Stumbled onto one of those nasty sites?

Ketch-Up Day

 

How are you?  What have you been doing?

We took the train to Philadelphia and celebrated Thanksgiving with our lovely daughter and son-in-law. The train was over an hr late getting in which put us on it for over twelve hrs and a good portion of that was spent with no working toilet in our car. Next year I think we are either going to try the sleeper or fly. 

Views from the train:

 

 

Thanksgiving.

Dinner as always was wonderful. We had a cheese board and crackers, and Christmas movies to see us through the day till dinner.

 

The squirrels and birds ate well too.

We went to Longwood Gardens Friday. (Pictures to follow.) Then headed home Saturday.

A few days later  we woke up to this:

Nori came to us Thursday.  We already have a problem. I caught her drinking my coffee. 

Frank is as big as she is.

Callie is still unnerved and is not impressed that her spot on my lap has been usurped  by the interloper.

That's it for now. Hoping to get one more post out before the Holidays. How are you doing?

Be well.

Ketch-up Day

 

 

I'm back....... 

If you celebrate, how was your Thanksgiving? We went to Philly via an eleven hour train ride to spend it with our daughter and SIL. The train we travel on is old, has bathroom issues and several cranky conductors. To be fair, there were a couple of nice ones. One was a model conductor, very helpful, so I shouldn't grumble too much.  I wanted to take pictures for Andrew, but that didn't work out. Anyhoo, we made it to Philly safe and sound.

The next morning we spent a little time at University of Pennsylvania then went back to the house where M and J prepared Thanksgiving dinner and the HH and I stretched out on the couch and watched the Christmas parade and movies.

This is the feeder my SIL made.

And this is a frequent visitor. Look how chunky he's getting.

This lovely little pond is located at Penn.

Can you see the sparrows? There's several in the leaves.

This little guy was a show stopper. He'd come right up to you and beg for food.

Back to the house and the cooks are hard at work.

Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie

Ah, dinner.

It was a lovely day and luscious dinner.

What about you blogger buds? Catch me up on what you've been doing.