Mischievous Marvin

My Mother has been sending me the Marvin cartoons out of her local paper for several years and I can't help but laugh when I read them as they remind me so much of our household...Above is the latest one and I thought I'd share the chuckle with all of you other Mothers out there....Enjoy!!

The Weekend

It was a fairly busy weekend. We had a load of gravel/rock/clay brought out Saturday morning and Fred put it in the dry creek bed. He did a great job and now if it's dry I can get my truck across. Now hopefully we won't have any more flooding as I think 6 inches of rain might just wash it out again, sigh! We are preparing to but a bridge back over it again and have several options we are looking at, stay tuned for that. I shredded/mowed the rest of Saturday and had finished most of the property by evening time. This morning (Sunday) I felt like I had a hangover...I was sore and my eyes were swollen from dust and pollen....If Fred had mowed he wouldn't have been able to get out of bed as his allergies are pretty bad. Maybe tomorrow I'll get photos of the work we accomplished...it looks pretty good. Today we spent visiting Grandpa and resting, lol...

This is Michael on the gravel! He was enjoying it and had actually thought we had it brought out for him, ha ha ha...little did he know....and then when Daddy starting scooping it up with the tractor and putting it in the Dry creek bed he was very upset and screaming at Daddy to stop...I gave Michael a shovel and this seemed to calm him down a bit...he wasn't too happy with us!!

I got Daddy to pose with Michael on top of the pile. Michael just thought he was king of the mountain...

The work begins and you can just see how tall the brush was and how rough the dry creek bed was!!

Color Photo Challenge ~ Yellow

The photo challenge this week was color, and I chose yellow.

Giant Swallowtail on a wild Mum bloom

Michaels tractor with the color accent turned on on the camera.

Lantana bloom with the color accent turned on on the camera.

Wild Mum blooms with the color accent turned on on the camera.

Silver leaf sunflowers with the color accent turned on on the camera.

Hummingbirds

Unbelievable but we had no rain today. I waited for the grass to dry, we had a decent breeze, so by this afternoon I was able to mow. This evening I sat outside and attempted to get a decent photo of a hummingbird. Below are the two photos out of several that I took that came out half way decent.

Male Ruby Throat Hummingbird.

He has been guarding the feeder and keeping all other hummingbirds away, the Big Bully!!

The above photo isn't very good but I loved the reflection in the window, thought it was pretty cool. Don't look at my dirty windows, guess you know what I'll be doing tomorrow, LOL....

And here comes another Thunder Storm...

I'm going to change the name of this blog to storm clouds, lol....We had a thundershower move through this morning and here comes another one this afternoon. I've heard that Victoria has almost beat their normal avg rainfail for the the year...that was for the year and we still have 4 months to go until the end of the year...And to think this time last year we were in a drought and everything was brown and crispy critters...

Michael and I ran KitKat over to the vet for his yearly vaccines. Kit does not like riding in the truck and it wasn't a fun half-hour there and half-hour back. Nothing like a yowling cat in your ear!! He seems to have survived and I got a few photos of him laying around this afternoon.

Just another Ho Hum day at our place...

Here are a few photos I took today. I didn't do much of anything today but take photos and play on the computer. Another Ho Hum day at the Naranjos!

Lantana. I used the color accent on my camera.

The Hummingbirds are back...this is a rubythroat.

A storm rolled in this morning while I was taking photos. It was beautiful and my photos don't do it justice!

Silver Leaf Sunflowers...These are considered wildflowers but they only like certain soils and we are blessed with them all over the place right now...Some of them are over 12 ft tall...it's really cool!! I used the color accent setting on my camera for this photo.

Toadly Ho Hum!

If you can believe it this is the only photo I've taken this weekend, lol. This little toad was on the front window sill last night catching bugs and tonight he was back. Fred called me from the living room and said my friend was back and beating himself against the window, lol...He had an even bigger buddy on the front walk but by the time I got the camera he'd taken 3 hops and was hiding in the chili pateen plant, sigh!! What an exciting weekend watching toads, lol.

Michael was out riding his tractor yesterday morning when he came running and screaming SNAKE!! Good boy!! He was scared out of his wits and I took off outside in my nightgown with the broom to see what and where...Fred came out with his snake boots and gun, lol what a sight we made...we looked for about 20 minutes but never found it!! I've been doing frequent walks around the yard looking since then but haven't see any....I asked Michael what did it look like and the only thing he could tell me is it had "red eyes"....sigh...I don't have a clue and pray it wasn't a copperhead...and I'm glad Michael has seemed to pay attention to all my lessons regarding snakes and ran and got me...

We really haven't had any excitement other than that this weekend...it's been raining and storming off and on so we really can't do much outside...we did work on the property yesterday for a couple of hours...Fred tried to play bulldozer with the tractor and didn't get to far, lol...he was trying to clear a path around the swale hole so that Michael and I could walk to the creek but after about 100 ft into the brush he hit water so that didn't work...time to get some bullrock in and just fill the swale hole in....We then took our 4X4 mule back to Freds Dads house and headed over to a neice's house to help her son break a Pinata for his birthday...After that we left and went to Victoria for dinner...in our grubs and all, ewww...The first restaurant we went into we couldn't even get waited on...and after a couple of people that came in after us got waited on we got up and walked out and we weren't a happy family...so we went to a different one and thank goodness service was GREAT!! After that we came home and I went to bed, Fred stayed up until 3am watching movies, ugh!!

Today we went to town and took Michael into TSC and Target to play with the toys, LOL...Yes we take our son into stores to play and not buy toys...pretty sorry aren't we? Michael loves it though and runs from toy to toy checking them out...Once in awhile he'll ask if he can take it home and we tell him No we are just here to play....Ah Well we're cheap and if it's fun what the heck!! So that has been our whole weekend...pretty Ho Hum if you ask me!!