Wednesday, July 2, 2008

It Has Been A Great Day!

Today has been fun! This morning, after taking care of paperwork, I passed the window and saw this odd looking bird—eating some birdseed on the porch. I haven’t shown the pictures to Tony yet, but I am thinking it is a baby hawk, because Tony has seen a mama hawk, teaching her babies how to fly, for the past several days. If anyone can identify this bird, please let me know, by posting a comment. I’m hoping that it isn’t a baby buzzard—that’s getting a little too close to home for me—I’m only 56! Here are the pictures:


And then a beautiful hummingbird showed up!

After my photo session, I went over to visit with Kinky and Brian Kanof, the incredibly talented photographer—from El Paso. When I arrived, they were outside, sitting in chairs, near the Friedman Family Bone Orchard. At one point during our visit, Brian excused himself, and went into the Lodge, and then he came right back outside, carrying his gift for Tony, that he had personalized—it was a pool stick, and he had bought one for Kinky and himself, too! I loved it!

Around 12:30, Kinky called and asked Tony and me to come over, to help give Perky some pills. After we had given little Perk, her pills—we went outside for a visit. Then Mr. Magoo showed up looking just like Kinky, he was chomping on his doggie chewgar, that our great friends, Herb and Karen Cares, had given to him, on their visit, back in January. Gooie looked hilarious! Kinky said, “Like father, like son.”

Then our friend, Timothy Abnour showed up and came over to visit. Just minutes after his arrival—it started to sprinkle! “I think I just felt a raindrop,” Timothy said.

“Me, too,” Kinky said.

“It’s not rain,” Tony said. “Its the sap falling from the tree above.”

To prove it was sprinkling, Kinky, Timothy and I got up from our chairs, and walked away from the tree, to make sure it was rain. It was definitely—sprinkling! Here is a picture that I captured of them celebrating the rain, which sadly ended—two minutes later. No more rain.

Timothy needed to get back to work at the camp, so Kinky, Tony and I went into the Lodge. Kinky announced that he was on a winning streak, and that he had won the past five pool games, against five different players. He then challenged Tony to a game.

They both were shooting good shots, and it was fun to watch, even though the Medina Bulldog lost to The Hummingbird Man.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, Nancy! The bird is an Inca dove. You're lucky to have one - the white-winged doves that are spreading out all over the state have out-competed the Inca doves in most places.

Simply Cindy Lou said...

Gooie definitely looks like his daddy with that chewgar in his mouth. Where can I find chewgars?
Mater and I are moving into our own place and I want to get him a present.

Mary S. said...

Has anyone adopted Pierce Brosman. I just realized the clever name for him is because of the porkepine [sp?] quills. I am keeping my fingers crossed he finds a great home.
Happy Fourth to everyone,
Mary S.

DY_Goddess said...

What a beautiful bird! I thought it looked like a young Mourning Dove. I never heard of an Inca Dove before, but it is very beautiful.

cousin nancy said...

Hello, Mari, Cindy Lou, Mary S. and DY Goddess!
Mari, thank you for identifying the Inca Dove!

Cindy Lou, I do not know where you can buy Chewgars, they came in a wooden box, just like real cigars and our dogs and the Friedmans love them!

Mary S., Pierce has not been adopted, yet. I hope that someone soon will adopt him.

DY Goddess, I agree about it being beautiful and yes, we had the best July 4th ever!

Best to all, Cousin Nancy

Anonymous said...

Hi Nancy, fyi - There's a place that sells dog chewgars online - I’ll be ordering some soon for my little girl, Star…

On-line Chewgar Link -

http://adogknows.com/categories.php?cat=9

Also, I dedicated a post on my daily blog this morning to Kinky. Per his comment, he doesn’t compute :), but I hope he'll get to see the recent Las Vegas photo of himself (hopefully or maybe through you sometime?) that’s posted there on my flickr page…. It’s at http://sweetcottagecharm.wordpress.com/ or http://www.flickr.com/photos/judygreen/

I just saw one of the pictures you included of your “writing cabin”. What a charming hideaway! Looking forward to more of your stories, photos and adventures…. All the best, Judy