T-Rex

This week I had the privilege of viewing a real(a cast of the real thing of course, I imagine the actual bones are too valuable to cart around the countryside) t-rex skeleton. The largest and most complete one ever found actually. After all the pictures, videos etc of dinosaurs in general... I wasn't expecting the level of awe I felt. Just standing there staring up at such an amazing creature I felt a surge of joy and gratitude for the variation and magnificence of God's creation.

My Ducks :)

I almost got a pic of three or four heads peering over the edge :)
My silver and chocolate drake

A little champagne colored hen. The woman I bought her from said she wasn't sure what color she was going to be, maybe buff. But she looks too silvery to be a buff to me...maybe a 'new' color; or maybe her adult feathers will be buff color. We'll just have to wait and see.

Remember those cute little yellow ducklings from a few weeks ago??? Here's one of them. When they have yellow down with a little black on the tail you can tell they will be barred as juveniles. Most likely when their adult feathers come in they will be solid black rather than bared. I'm almost sure this one is a drake.

Hopefully a hen (this is 'Meadow' )

The "champagne" hen and two chocolates... I need to come up with names for these ladies... assuming they really are ladies :) I think I'll wait a couple weeks before naming them.

The other yellow duckling...this is "Morton", the one i helped hatch...maybe a drake, he has such a big head :)

This Boys LOVES to Talk!!! :-)

He's even told my it's one of his top favorite activities! LOL :-D

Snowberry Clearwing Sphinx Moth

And You Thought These Were Extinct!! :-)

The Planets Have Realigned, The Cosmos Are In Order, All Is Well...

Yep. I found my camera battery charger.



No, I don't want to talk about it.



Remember the baby skunk I mentioned seeing the other day? We've been seeing him every day since. And his five siblings. We wondered if mama had been hit by a car or eaten by something... Today when Aunt Marci went up to see the babies three of them ran out of the weeds and started to suck vigorously on her toes. That did it, Grandfather and Marci gathered them up and brought them down. Marci, Grandma and I worked at feeding them a little milk. One of the babies felt cold and would not swallow. Grandfather and Marci took them to Wildlife Images, a local wildlife rehabilitation center.


Somehow Grandfather convinced Brannon to pic one up long enough for a picture. I was rather surprised B went for it actually. That look on his face though...LOL!


Great-Grandma even got in on the skunk petting; and reminisced about a pet skunk they had.

Baby Jubilee was fascinated and had to be kept from grabbing :)

Ahh, much more comfortable a safe distance away ;-)

Now I'm Extra Upset About Not Having A Camera!!!

Because of what stopped me in my tracks on the way back from letting the chickens out of their coop this afternoon. Something not much bigger than my now-chubby ducklings...


Something I smelled very strongly all around the coop yesterday...



I paused for a moment then took another route back to the house, by way of my in-law's yard...


I really did not want to walk through that jungle of a path this evening...

I caught another glimpse this evening on the way up to give my birds their evening "snack" of yogurt and fruit/veggie scraps collected today. Under an old mobile home/trailer thingy that's just past and on the other side of that vw in the previous post. Well, now we know where our family of skunks is living this year.

At least it's not under our house...