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Saturday, May 12, 2018

A week already!

I don't know where the week has gone.    We only have one week left here now.

Mostly we've been taking it easy and getting caught up on household and just normal living life jobs.   Beluga got very dirty being in the dusty, windy areas we love.   Added to all that dust was the mess made as we drove through rain and melted snow,  so one of the things we (and by "we" I mean Dave) took care of first was washing her.   She's sparkling clean now.    The dust also seems to seep into every crack and crevice - vacuuming, dusting and general deep cleaning was the next order of business.

We have great WiFi here so I've been taking advantage of that to make some winter reservations.   We're booked for Dec., Jan., and February!   Now we can play it by ear for the fall and spring, when it's easier to get reservations.

Mornings and late afternoons we laugh at the antics of our bird neighbors.

each pretending the other isn't there
The efforts of Magpies and Meadowlarks to claim the same tree tops at the same time.

 But the real stars of our second cup and happy hours are the Broad tailed Hummingbirds.   They zoom around in front of us, sounding and acting like George Jetson's space car on the way home from work.    The males shoot right past our faces only to blast straight up, go into a textbook stall before executing a death spiral to land on the feeder on our picnic table.    It makes us dizzy to watch.  It's caused us to wear only dark clothing when we sit out....anything bright makes us a target for them!

Of course, I can't show you these aerobatics and it frustrates me no end that they don't sit still long enough to catch a decent picture as they take a second to rehydrate but I have managed to snap a few......




Once in a great while they are patient enough to wait on the nearby show fence while a female is drinking.....

isn't she pretty


Sometimes they comment on our laughter by sticking out their tiny tongues at us...

pfffffftttt

But mostly they zoom and chatter and argue and joust with each other over who is going to drink first.





 
We've enjoyed some nice dinners with Jesse and Erin most evenings (poor things have to work for a living during the daytime)  and we're madly in love with their big lummox of a dog, Tanner.

he waits beside the garbage can, in earnest hope that it will open for him



Today is quite gray and sort of cool, but earlier in the week the thermometer was nearing 90 so we took Lewis and headed for the hills.  More on that later.








8 comments:

  1. Great pix of your hummers! You'll be missed - at least your feeder will :) We have one nesting now right outside the side door! How odes Lewis like having Tanner for company?

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  2. Awesome photos of the hummers Sue. They are so entertaining! Time does seem to fly these days. Is it because we are getting older? Or is it we are just having so much fun? Love the picture of Lewis on the boulder! And am so happy you have fallen in love with Tanner and have this time to spend with him, Jesse and Erin.......

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  3. Glad you have some nice entertainment for Second Cup and HH:) We have hummingbirds here that seem to enjoy the palms even though they aren't colorful. They are fast little things. You did manage some great photos! Good job! Tanner is so cute:) Enjoy your dinners with Jesse and Erin:) Love Lew on the boulder:)

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  4. 90 already? Chatfield is so lovely at this time of year!

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  5. How sweet to have the hummingbirds as neighbors and entertainment. They are such speedy little things, but you got some good photos. I'm assuming you got a few blurry ones, too? :-)
    I'm impressed that you've got all of your reservations made for next winter. Sigh. I haven't made any reservations beyond our next stop in Illinois....

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  6. Your photos are awesome. I wouldn't even attempt to get a picture of a hummingbird. They're way too fast! I hear you on the dirt and dust everywhere. We have loved being in the southwest, and we have loved leaving the windows open all the time, but good lord, the grit is everywhere! It's an endless battle.

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  7. Boy can I relate to the dirt and dust. After camping at Lone Rock for a month, we have sand in every nook and granny in the RV and trucks. It'll take us the next month to try and rid us of the grit. Oh well, it was worth it. Love your hummer photos!

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  8. I thought about deep cleaning this week and decided that until we're out of the desert (next week) it's a lost cause. Fortunately we haven't had the blowing dust while we're parked so I'm thinking it might not be "as" bad this year :-) Wonderful hummer pics - they match their feeder so nicely. Tanner is such a sweet old boy, and so lucky to have been given a home in his golden years.

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