MadSnapper N Beau: backyard jungle

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Friday, January 16, 2026

LIFE Snaps of MadSnapper Caregiver

Oh look, the aloe is blooming.

Wander about at 3:30 AM in backyard with Beau, taking not so great Moon shots. the good news was, no flashlight or floodlights needed, the yard was lit up enough to see where we walked.

Make a calendar the cheap way. Printed out 12 months of 2026 from a free site for school teachers and taped them on the old calendar from last year... Pam,Ginny, if you want want for you Collection let me know and I will send you the LINK. 😁😁

It's only there to write reminders on and then forget I wrote them there

Take a shot of the Ensure that a friend who had 22 bottles given to her gave me to see if Bob likes it. Its way to expensive to toss away if he doesn't, yay, He does.

but wait, wake up, there is still MORE....

Sit on Sofa with the TV so loud I can't hear the clicking of the keys tapping, browsing old posts because I am to tired to do anything else.

I found this from 2010 which means I have been taking photos of odd things in the house for many years and am trying to blame my lack of photos to show you on

my being a caregiver for 10 months.

The watches are now dead and gone,

Don't Ask

I am sorry, I have No One but You to Talk to......and nothing to talk about

We can join Rosy for Nature Friday, because of the moon and the Aloe. We use Aloe for burns, and itches and that plant has been here since 1989..

Nature Friday with Rosy and Sunny at Living the LLB Life https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

Friday, October 24, 2025

In The Jungle, The Quiet Jungle

In The jungle, the quiet jungle,

the Snapper snaps tonight

A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh

I noticed this shot while watching Beau using his favorite PeeHole for 4 AM, Beau is missing from the shot, since I had to go get the cell phone. Picture Him right where my shadow is with leg hiked. Got it?

While changing the camera setting back to photo from NIGHT mode, (I lost several good shots because on night mode each photo has a countdown of Five and the photos I took in the back yard, were not there because the sun was so bright I could not see the camera) I noticed this shot, Snap and Snap

The traveling lamp (Myra Named it that) on the right, is The Snap, the one on the left was planned by moving cell around

Yesterdays Infusion was the fastest, so far, 4.5 hours and the best nurse we have had and she is ours..

Joining Nature Friday with Rosy and Sunny at Living the LLB Life

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Backyard Jungle Past Tense

Before the slaughter of the trees

After the slaughter of 5 trees by bobcat bulldozer

Yesterday I shared my hurt at losing 5 big Palm Trees out of the neighbors yard. I forgot to take a before picture and while searching my blog found this one, this is the way the gap in the trees looked before they took them down, minus the hibiscus the drought killed. We lost 8 Hibiscus trees, all at least 6 feet tall, in the past five years.

We have lived here since OCT 1989.

Bob and I and our first dog, Max in 1990, see the yard? we had nothing but trees and grass. Bob starting planting and our jungle grew and grew... Its hard to see the

changes in it and in me and bob, Max left us in 2002 at 15 years old

No digital then, this is a snap shot, Bob took. my grandfather built the swing in 1939 for their front porch here, when my grandmother died, Mama moved it from here to Savannah GA and I moved it back when Mama died in 1990.

Sadly the swing passed away due to wood rot from hanging outside, non on a covered porch.

From the time of my first digital camera, a 3 mp tiny Kodak Easy share for 69 dolla rs, I have taken thousands and thousands of photos, most of which are on my blog that started in 2008. all of these photos below were taken in 2013, before the drought came and decimated our Backyard Jungle.

Banana Trees, that had fruit once a year

Dwarf Poinciana Red Peacock Flower Tree Plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima

I think these photos will give you an idea why I mourning the felling of trees in our back yard. we started with 9 trees that belonged to us and now are down 3 and every flower and bush we had for years is gone.

the sad thing is, when Bob was telling our neighbor over the fence yesterday about the palm trees, he told Willie, those palm grew really fast, he planted them when they were half that size and they grew that big in 5 years. I looked at Willie and shook my head, he knows they did not. they have been there for many many years. Bob remembers things that upset him in the past and he thought they planted them to close to the fence. CHANGE, it never stops!

Friday, September 12, 2025

Beau Grass (BeauSpeak) 1

Behold, the lawn man cometh. by Beau with a little help from Mama

Before: the grass was up to my nose,

After: grass is gone, where to, I just don't know.

Before

After the mower man came

before it was tall, and lots to eat,

now it is short and way to neat.

I like my grass, at mouth height, you see,

Alas, it is not up to ME.

It is easier to pee,

and my poop, it is better for mama to see.

Higher than the shovel, shorter than the rake,
its all gone now, nothing for me in which to partake

Joining Nature Friday at Living the LLB Life with Rosy and Sunny.

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Sun Damage Shadow Art Wordless Wed

I used to be a brown canvas, for privacy,

now I am art for all to see.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

The Neighbors Fence-The End (almost)

The neighbor's fence is finished and has been since June 12th, I took photos and forgot to post them until a blog friend asked about the fence. We have put all repair ($$$$) on hold until we find out if the meds will help Bob.

Our yard waste goes in the blue bin, the big stick is one of two Sea-grape sticks I saved for walking sticks, after hurricane Milton.

That stick is perfect to hold on to while bending over picking up sticks, I can brace myself and pick up about 6 sticks at one bend over and not fall on my head.

The schefflera tree is the one just to the left of the blue bin. the entire stick of leaves drops, and the leaves come off. Bob has always just mulched the sticks and leaves and no need to pick them up.

Once, my neighbor Willie saw me picking up sticks and said Whatcha doing over there, DieHard.

the new name he gave me after hurricane clean up

When the young men who installed the fence, built this barricade, with a gate they took down from the neighbors yard and they left a half section of our leaning rotten fence, because if it is moved, there is a hole just the right size for a big fat nosy dog to dive through.

Baby Girl, now an angel, was the most stubborn dog on the planet

Dan will remove the gate and our fence and patch the hole, next time he comes to work

our old fence, had wire all the way across to keep Angel Baby Girl from digging under the fence. She is angel now but was not when on this earth. I took the photos to show there is 2 feet between our fence line and the neighbors.

I filled the space between the strangler fig tree, with debris until Dan comes, I don't want Beau on the other side of it until the hole is fixed. the space you see is not an outlet, there is a chain-link fence there, our fence. Moving debris is how I met the granddaddy long legs that climbed my arm.