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Groundhog Sighting, Dollhouse & A Question For You

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First groundhog sighting – not Henry, this guy was far too spry for Henry. In fact, I’m not even sure whether he lives on our property. I happened to look out the kitchen window and saw a groundhog on the ramp to the shed. Then he ran around the shed. (There’s another entrance to their home back there.) Then he ran around to the front and, to my surprise, jumped up on our overturned wheelbarrow.

Blurry. Taken through the window with my iPhone.

He was on the alert. He did this a couple of times, then he proceeded to follow the chicken wire fence toward the back of the property, stopping several times to stand on his hind legs and scout some more. Eventually, he ran across the back of the property toward my neighbor’s shed. And I know some ground hogs live there, as well.

Did he just wake up from hibernation? Is he looking for his friends? I’m not sure. But it sure was fun to watch him.

I worked a bit on the dollhouse yesterday. My English cottage concept involves stones. So I cut up some egg cartons (used by miniaturists for the texture) and played with paints.

Pretty good, but I think they need to be lighter in color.

And can you imagine how long this will take me to do? I woke up this morning feeling daunted at the very idea.

I also got about 2 hours of sleep last night, so that didn’t help. I went to sleep just fine. I woke up, went to the bathroom, and that was it for the rest of the night. Just dreadful. My sleep has been really off lately. I’m feeling ragged today, so I’m just going to take it easy.

A question for you: Don and I have been tossing around the idea of doing a podcast. Something that we would do every couple of weeks or so, where we chat with each other about the theater, our lives, life at the cottage, music, groundhogs, whatever. We’re sort of intrigued by the idea, but the big question is: Would anyone listen to it?

What are your thoughts? We wouldn’t inundate you with episodes, we might not even keep to a rigid schedule. Don could play a tune on his uke, we could swap stories about our careers and who we’ve worked with, and we’d be funny, to boot.

We’re going to research the whole thing because we haven’t a clue how to do one. But it would be fun for us and maybe fun for you?

Let me know.

The winner of a copy of How to Know the Birds  is Susan. Now, there were several Susans who commented, but I’ve sent you an email, Susan, so you’ll know if it’s you. Please respond with your mailing address. Thank you to everyone who commented!

Also, I’m playing with the size of my photos? Are these too big?

Happy Sunday.

 

Cast of Creatures

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I’m trying to figure out just how many of my little groundhog friends are hanging around the property. There is one, I know, that lives on my neighbor’s property. I see him running back home occasionally.

There’s Henry, of course.

Then there are these two:

The young scamp on the right and an older groundhog on the left. The older one reminds me of Henry, but that’s not Henry’s coloring. Is it his wife, Henrietta? I think these guys are the same two who were playing together the other day.

Then there’s this guy:

We’ve named him Nigel.

Then there are the bunnies and the birds and some creature who got in our trash can the other day.

Whoopi Goldberg saw the show yesterday afternoon. She’s a close friend of one of the cast members. Don got the chance to chat with her and he really loved her. She said, as so many, many others have said, that the show she saw had absolutely no resemblance to the show the NY Times reviewer described. We all know that, but it’s nice to hear it confirmed by Whoopie. And then she said “F**k the critics!”

The exact same words I’ve used many times. I may put it on a T-shirt.

The hydrangeas are getting bigger by the day. Soon there will be fluffy white blossoms everywhere.

The catalpa in bloom. It’s very, very breezy today, so I’m thinking a lot of those blossoms will be on the ground by the end of the day.

Mowing is on the docket for today. And some weeding. And some reading. And some biscuits, which I made yesterday.

Happy Thursday.

 

Sunday

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A quick post this morning as I’m getting ready to head into the city.

The other day I saw two groundhogs emerge onto the shed ramp. They proceeded to play with each other like animals do, wrestling, standing on their hind legs and batting at each other.

Has Henry had more kids? I’m not sure, but they definitely emerged from under the shed. One of them looked older than the other, so perhaps one was a parent. The bigger one sure looks a lot like Henry.

I was only able to get a few pictures with my  special lens – they were way across the yard.

Gosh darn it, they were cute. We’ve had babies before but I usually see some sign of them when they’re very small.

Peony update:

We’re not supposed to have rain until Wednesday, so they should stay intact for a while.

I’ll try to post from the city. I’m not taking my laptop but Don has one. Or maybe I’ll take it. I haven’t decided yet. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow and Tuesday, I’ll be back on Wednesday. I’m starting to think it’s healthy to take a day or two off every once in a while.

Happy Sunday.

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