The sky-way will remain. the laughter we get when they race to the point in the middle spread their 4 legs and leap into the oak, clinging on while it rides them up and down like a roller coaster... they have not fallen. Yet

 I throw fruit and veggies out under the sky-way and stand and watch them at the buffet. Almost forgot, the birds love the dead part of the tree. We have seen doves loving and jays fighting and grackles chasing all of them, including the squirrels who chatter at the grackles while running away

El Diablo the squirrel took a break from gnawing on and knocking down our avocados. He waited while I retrieved the Nikon from the kitchen table.  I could have taken more but they would all be the same. He Just Sat There Staring at me.


I will be sporadic in posting and commenting for a while. My heart is just not in blogging. I prefer to be upbeat and humorous and right now my humor mojo is not working very well. You can tell, nothing stops me from aiming my camera.  NOTE: if i have made any negative comments the past week or so, please forgive me and consider my state of mind.

 I am in constant pain with my leg/hip and have no idea what is is and will be having tests and running from doctor to doctor. Our beloved Baby girl is not doing well with her ear tumor that maybe cancer and we are in waiting mode. My baby brother, David age 67, has been diagnosed with Amyloidosis  and Myeloma  .

He is in early stages, but the treatment is 4 weeks in the hospital in isolation, they will remove the bone marrow and stem cells and treat him with chemo, them put the marrow and cells back. There is no cure for this disease that hits 1 in 1 million people.  He is waiting for an MRI to check his heart. if the disease is in the heart there can be no treatment. we are in waiting mode for him to.

click on photo to find El Diablo

  el diablo... Satanás Surirrelies....Satan's Spawn.... Bob calls him/her... D %#@&    S &^%$% , Pardon his language.

What ever we call them, they have been and still are wreaking havoc on avocados that weigh 2 to 4 pounds each...
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Photo includes 1 Loblolly Pine, 1 Seagrape, 2 Schefflera trees, one corner of our Jungle

Yesterday, I showed you the big beautiful tree, and playing in that same tree with the flowers was this little rascal... dang him! dang him! or maybe it is a dang her!


They eat the avocados, they eat the grapefruit and now because this years crop is not very good they are sitting up there nibbling on pine cones and dropping the sharp thorns on the pool deck.


Which means when I walk on the pool deck I scream OUCH! OHH! OWIE! because those thorns were not meant for bare feet.


I will pay the shipping if anyone wants a few of these guys and gals.


the only thing they are good for is photography sessions... and they can't even get that right.


Hey! you there, Lizzie Lizard, I need a photo OP!

JUST KIDDING..It was only 88...

In spite of our Silly Squirrels (I will no print what Bob  calls the little rascals) you can see the last bounty from the tree on our counter this week.


Can you guess what this is? It is Amazing and the first we have ever seen.





It is the seed that was in this three pounder, if you enlarge you can see where the roots of the seed were starting to come out the top of the fruit. If this was planted in the ground, we would have another TREE and I don't want the one we have....

Perspective shot

BTW I DID LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE POST THAT WAS IN MY READER FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS, SO I DID NOT MISS ANYTHING. HAD A GREAT WEEKEND OFF

 The wind on Saturday blew down 15 Avocados. The wind stopped but the fruit kept dropping. They fall from way up high and when they hit the ground it sounds like a bomb. I know when they fall from the big THUMP!  I heard a thump, and  15 minutes later a second Thump. I could see this from the bedroom window.
I raced outside to retrieve it, to keep the dogs from eating it. Placed it in the trash. Yet another THUMP!
this time it was a whole one with a beady eyed squirrel staring at it from half way down the tree.

Hubby wants to do the squirrels HARM because they chew holes in the fruit making them fall.

I watched with much laughter as a grown man  stomped his feet, raised his voice, shooed with his arms up over his head trying to make the dastardly squirrel go away.

SHH don't tell anyone but he actually threw a stick up in the tree, with a  near miss of it hitting himself on the head when it came down.

I was hysterical watching from the kitchen window. It was a sight, believe me, and we all KNOW squirrels are here to stay. It is not as though there is only ONE of the little guys.

To protect the squirrels and my hubby from harm, I took the half chewed one back outside and placed it where we found it and said to hubby, maybe he will eat it and leave the others alone.

I returned to my window view and waited and within 60 seconds, he was there. I shot this through the bedroom screen as we watched the little devil devour avocado at an alarming rate of speed.
 I carefully slid the door open and he let me walk to with in 5 feet, Madly Snapping, as I am want to do.

 Suddenly he stared at the camera and raced up the tree.
There is no happy ending to this story. I continued to hear THUMPS and this morning we picked up what was numbers 23, 24 and 25. We took 15 of them to the YMCA at 5:30 AM and by 6:30 they were gone.

TO SEE MORE OF OUR LITTLE SCAMPER RATS LOOK AT THE LABEL ABOVE. ONE DRINKING FROM THE POOL

This fell out of our tree yesterday!
And this fell out of our tree a few weeks ago. All the Avacados are Supposed to look like this one. Out of 30 plus, only five were entirely whole.
                                      Can you guess the culprit?

Meet the Culprit, the destroyer of all fruit large and small. The Dastardly Devil that sits on the fence and chatters at my husband in this photo.
I did not do it, I swear. He is hiding his food for later, a nut, not an avacado.

Aggravating Archenemy? Yes!
Nibbles holes in the avacado? Yes!
Eat holes in our Ruby Red Grapefruit? Yes!
 Do we wish they would go away? Yes!
Will we ever harm them? NEVER!
Will I continue to take pictures of them? Yes!
Do we think their antics are adorable and delightful? Yes!

                     "if you can't beat them join them"  Such is life!