Get your buns in here and warm up! Sheesh, it is COLD out there! All of 30 degrees and yes, the furnace is on. The sun is coming up over the mountain and maybe it’ll be another pretty day. Most of the critters are outside right now except the Newbie.
Goofy dog is in a dancy dancy mood this morning. We’ve already had two sing-songs. Have no idea what this means but I’ve never had any critters do this before.
Of course, there was Smokey, the shepherd, the canary, the parrot and a guitar. Lolol!
I must tell you that many moons ago, I played the guitar and sang. I never did learn to sight read music but I could figure out the chords. I spent many an hour practicing when I was home alone.
Well, I liked the songs Greensleeves, a Taste Of Honey, Come Wander With Me Love (also a Twilight Zone production) and Black Is The Color Of My True Love’s Hair. Old old English and Celtic folk songs are still some of my favorites.
Pedro, the parrot, learned to sing the phrase: A Taste Of Honey….
The canary would always sing the harmony…
Smokey howled and sang to everything! Lolol
Ralph, the Siamese, left home! Lolol He didn’t want any part of this singing business!
Back then, I had to make a choice… paint or play. Both took a great deal of my time and there were dance classes, the ballet.
I decided that painting was the most important to me and kept the other two as hobbies. Then I developed carpel tunnel syndrome long before it became the medical problem of the year. My voice went… never work a high stress job where you use your voice. Singing and high stress are not compatible! Trust me, they are not. So now, I whistle the songs when I am outside playing in the dirt. Works for me anyway and I have no neighbors to complain! Lolol
I also had a sorrel quarter- horse/ thoroughbred mix. I could call “Hi Seets” and here he would come. At his own pace, mind you but in from the fields he would come. Lolol A fellow rider wanted to know how I managed to get Seets to come in on his own. Fellow Rider had to go to the fields to get his horse, Shadow.
Sometimes, Fellow Rider, would lose his temper and throw things (like rocks) at his horse. Shadow would run away. Fellow Rider would get angrier and cuss and throw more rocks…
Now, I knew Shadow wasn’t stupid… neither was Seets.
I’d call Seets in… give him a good brushing (oh, he liked his belly brushed! A lot!) and have a small amount of sweet feed for him. Never had a bit of trouble and Seets would follow me like a puppy.
Fellow Rider said he’d be damned if he would bribe Shadow. The horse would come to him without all the goodies. Shadow never did. Some people, it seems, cannot or will not learn.
Saw some wild turkeys in the field above the house yesterday… Gorgeous day! Saw sundogs and sun columns… My flyguys were up there… Sometimes I could see contrails and sometimes I could only hear them…
I finally remembered to get the camera to take some pix of the sundogs.
I went back and checked for the names of the imported pests that LJ gave me. The unlady-like beetles are Japanese Bean Beetles; they are supposed to eat aphids. It is the African Gnat that dines of weevils. Now see, you learned sumfin new today so it’s not a total loss! Lolol Be advised that both these critters will chomp on the human if given half a chance.
And here is a pic of the Newbie giving directions to Scotty as he bush hogged! The sun was down by this time. The pic is a little dark but you’ll get the idea… lolol
Guess that’s it for now… Take care all of mine… go in safety always. Remember to be kind to one another… If horses can learn, so can the human!
Many hugs, much love and lots of lafter… meems
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