Monthly Archives: July 2023

A surfboard-stealing otter is on the run

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I just saw this story about sea otters in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area and had to reblog it. Before I moved to Mexico, my husband and I used to kayak in Elkhorn Slough, a small river that ran down to the ocean in the Monterey/Santa Cruz area. I had an amazing experience with sea otters in this area when I became separated from Bob. I was floating down the slough and noticed one sea otter, then two,  until I was surrounded by a ring of sea otters that kept floating closer until they formed a circle around me. At least one was on her back with a baby on her stomach and suddenly they all started singing! It was the most surreal experience. They floated closer and closer and finally I broke the circle and paddled down the slough toward the ocean where Bob and friends were waiting for me. When I read this story, it all flooded back to memory.

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Chris found this story about a California Otter stealing surface boards.

See entire article, video and photos.

By Holly Honderich in Washington

If you were to take a swim in the clear blue waters surrounding Santa Cruz, California, in recent days, you may have encountered an unlikely predator. Small and dark, whiskered and fluffy, she has developed a knack for theft and a taste for surfboards.Her name is 841. She is a sea otter.

Photographer: Mark Woodward, Santa Cruz, California

For the Love of Challenges

I’ve gathered a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.

Qi (energy) hugs

Cee

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Tatarian Maple Tree Bloom? FOTD July 14, 2023

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My plant identifier says this is a Tatarian Maple Tree, but it certainly looks like a beautiful flower to me.

For Cee’s FOTD

Two by Two for CBWC

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For CBWC Two Items

A Fictionary––For Fibbing Friday July 14, 2023

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For Fibbing Friday this week, we were asked to use our noggins
to try to dream up daffynitions for the following words:

1. Brabble  The contents of a messy underwear drawer.
2. Bedward  Where we are headed after a particularly wearisome day.
3. Crapulous  How one joyfully describes a long-awaited intestinal release!!!!
4. Elflock  A  hold practiced by diminutive wrestlers.
5. Expergefactor  What Daffy Duck once called a formerly  bulimic movie star
6. Groke  A pronouncement of a sore-throated frog
7. Grubble The leftovers of a particularly messy dinner party
8. Lanspresado How we described Lans previous to his last down period.
9. Mumpsimus  Why Mumpsi decides to leave her dull home in search of adventure?
                            Well, simply—because  Mupsimus!
10. Rawgabbit  What one eats when one has no means to cook one’s gabbit.

 

For Fibbing Friday

From the Air. The Approach to Billings

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Images of the skies between Dallas and Billings. I couldn’t resist sending this many to show the changes. Fascinating. This is about half of the photos I took! Love having a window seat and the lovely young woman I sat next to insisted on trading seats during the approach to Billings so I could see the view.

Yarrow, FOTD July 13, 2023

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Back in Wyoming. From my friend Patty’s garden: Yarrow.

for Cee’s FOTD

Bougainvilla: FOTD July 12, 2023

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Awaiting yer pic!  ( This was the note on the blog Forgottenman had waiting for me to add a photo to today. What a kind act from a dear person. He was correct in supposing I would forget to post in the rush of things so he made it easier for me.  I have been running all day. First the drive back to Sheridan from Billings after a night in a hotel there, then an eye appointment, then shopping first for groceries and then for all the makeup I did not bring from Mexico because I only brought a carryon and planned to buy all my makeup and other maintenance “stuff” here in the states.  A chat with my friend Patty whom I’m staying with and her guy Duffy and I’m now back in bed. Dr. appt. tomorrow. Rodeo going on across the street.  Lots of drum rolls and crowd cheers and odors a la horses!!!  But this blog is supposed to be about flowers, so here they are!!!!)

For Cee’s FOTD Prompt

Feeling Blue for Sunday Stills

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From my terrace
Because her delight conjured up such memories of the slide in the playground across the street from my childhood home and my own trips down it.
Deep Blue Sea
Berries in the bowl
and on the bush
Because it is the only photo of my sisters and me as adults.
Because it reflects so well the two things I love most about Mexico: the children and the artistry.

For Sunday Stills: Blue.

Sleeping Over At the Airport

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My bed.
My neighbors
More neighbors

 

It is 7:20 AM and I’ve been in the Guadalajara Airport since 2 AM. My delayed flight leaves at 9 and I’ll spend another 7 hours cooling my heels in Dallas. All in all it will be 20 hours in airports and in the air and I will arrive 8 hours late and a day late at my destination since I’ll arrive too late at night for my sister to drive the hour and a half to the airport to collect me, and so I will need to spend a night in a hotel. Oh the glories of modern travel. Since my pickup was at 1 AM for the hour trip to the airport , I didn’t go to sleep at all last night and I have had one hour’s sleep on a couch in the VIP lounge which they gave me a pass to. Better than the hundreds of people sleeping on the floor in the ticketing area. Wonder what is up? Heavy rain all the way from San Juan to Guadalajara, so perhaps that has grounded planes.

Water Lilies: FOTD July 11, 2023

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Water Lilies in the moat at Montel Cosala Chac Lan in San juan Cosala…For Cee’s FOTD