Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas!

My hopes and wishes for your Christmas and holidays to be bright, happy and healthful!

You can see that our valley's wildlife has been busy, still harvesting the soybeans through the inch of snow on the ground.  The pheasants seem to do the hard work and everybody else takes advantage of the clearing.

Not sure why there isn't more ''shake'' in this one....the pheasant was disturbed, startling us both, from a sound sleep in the deep grass almost before I pushed the shutter button.





Mice outside.....


Eye-Patched Pirate mice inside.....


And inside each of the little pirates....catnip. One would hope that Benedict, our older housecat of two, is prepping for the Christmas celebration, here dreaming of his own sort of sugarplums and keeping a gaming mouse and pad warm....But....we fear that he's only dreaming of little poorly sighted mice.


I should mention here that Bennie was no help in getting them all rounded up.


If trouble dealing with mice and a couple of cats were all that we had to contend with, we'd count ourselves blessed.  We don't even have fish, or I didn't think we did.  By the looks of things, if we still did, we won't have for long.


Small, hopefully harmless bears.....they appear docile here.


Hanna, our youngest in NY was for some reason craving an octopus (must be an East Coast thing??) and now she's got one.  There just aren't that many here in SE Minnesota.


And finally, a horse...on a stick....with wheels.


In a couple of weeks, the controllable chaos will return.  We'll be down to two housecats that mostly behave themselves.  Hopefully things are under control where you live.

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Added later Christmas Eve Morning ......apparently someone else is gaining a feline.  Upon my entering last night's slumber, this one wasn't complete.


16 comments:

  1. Merry Christmas to you and yours..... and thanks. :)

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  2. I love all the knitted critters. Merry Christmas to you as well. All the best in 2018.

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  3. That's quite the menagerie! Merry Christmas!

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    1. Richard, thanks. If you're going to have pets, these are ideal. :)

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  4. Merry Christmas to you and yours Coop!

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  5. Merry Christmas Coop. Hope you and yours have a fine and happy holiday. And the cat enjoys more time on that IKEA footstool!

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    1. Thanks Steve, we've had a wonderful time, hope that all is well in PA as well. You saw it and knew....:)

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  6. Wow, someone in your house is stirring, not just the mice. Enjoyed all the little creatures, thanks for posting. Merry Christmas to all.

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    1. Thanks Brad, hope you two had a fantastic holiday. Peg needs a break from knitting but the winter is long, it won't be long and she'll be back at it.

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  7. We enjoyed the hand made items. Cindy is inspired to look for some of those patterns. You or Peg did a great job!

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    1. Thanks Eric, I'm sure that Peg is willing to share. Her little critters traveled far and wide this holiday season.

      The work is all hers. My job is to keep the cats, especially Claudio, out of her yarn and I don't appear to be very good at the task. Locked behind glass in grandmother's old china buffet, you'd want to believe that the yarn is safe.

      It is not.

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  8. Happy New Year to you and Peg ... looks like it's a good time to be indoors knitting. Hoping you are surviving this weather. We've been locked in a deep freeze for several days now and it just isn't fun anymore.

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    1. Thanks much VSL. You are correct, the cold has already become a nuisance though to be fair, we've had a very gentle (and late) entry into winter.

      Stay warm and all the best to you and family in the New Year!!

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