One tree in our front yard is home to a variegated squirrel
that when we first saw it when we arrived here we thought was a monkey. But it
turned out it is red belly squirrel with a gray stripe down its back and tail.
This squirrel seems to be alone and I like to watch it climb. It’s a good
climber. I named it Pepper. Today, sharing the tree was this iguana. Isn't it awesome?!
After breakfast, I was about to go brush my teeth and I saw
what I thought was a leaf stuck on the window been blown inside by the window.
When I looked closer I saw it had a body and a head. If it was autumn (in
Canada, not here) then I think it would have camouflaged perfectly with the
tree because it was orange-ish, yellow-ish.
In the past few days and this morning Apricot Sulphur
butterflies have been so popular fluttering around everywhere around our house.
There have been at least 100.
A couple hours later Sam and I took out the compost and when
we came back in we went on the deck and saw lots of coatis eating it and there
was a baby! And it looked right at me! I named it Popo! They climbed the trees when they were all done with their snack.
Oh, and there were plenty of ants as usual. Dad says we just
have to accept them as part of our home and be happy they don’t really bother
us. Mama is not so happy with that idea, especially when she found them in the
cereal this morning.
Maeve, I loved your round-up of everything you saw in just one morning. It's amazing. You must not only be observant to notice such things but also quick eyed as so many move very fast! Sophie wants to come and visit you very much!! We are heading to Toronto on Friday and wish we could teleport you there for 24 hours. BTW their grandmother is doing much better and showed us on Skype yesterday that she can flex her lower arm now and do a move that looks something like playing the piano. Slowly but surely she is healing. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, dear friends. Jo
ReplyDeleteHi Jo. Please tell Sophie that I have her cursive postcard all ready and will try to mail it tomorrow and I wish she could come visit!!!!! Maybe? We were just talking about their grandmother at breakfast the other day. I'm glad she is doing better. Does she play the piano? Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
DeleteYour world is very "colourful". What a great place to be. The pictures you draw may not survive the mildew but, hey, for posterity's sake, photograph them. Did you and Sam go behind the water fall? Love Grandma xxooo
ReplyDeleteYES, Grandma we did go behind the waterfall!! It was slippery and really loud and cool. It was raining but we didn't notice because of all the water spraying from the falls. Did you have a good Thanksgiving? We will call soon. Love, Maeve
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