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Quixote wrote:
> "Miracle Smith" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:427f0a26_5@galaxy.uncensored-news.com...
>> Until recently, all we had in our area were jackrabbits.
>> I love them dearly, but they're far more skittish than your
>> ordinary cottontail, and they don't have cute tails. They do
>> have outrageous ears, and enormous hind legs, however,
>> which make them "un-cute" in a way.
>>
>> About 3 years ago we spotted one lone cottontail, then
>> gradually their numbers have increased. I like to think I've
>> helped, by providing food and water for them, especially
>> during the summer.
>>
>> I gradually moved their food closer and closer to the house,
>> and now we are being rewarded with visitations all hours of the
>> day. I saw a chance to grab a few quick shots on Friday, but
>> they were shot through the (tinted) living room window. Click
>> on the "Bunnies" button.
>> <http://rossandmiracle.homestead.com/index.html>
>>
>
> I miss jackrabbits. Ugly maybe, but man can they run. Watching a
> jackrabbit in full stride is fun. In my part of the woods we usually
> have two seasons, winter and summer, with only about a week of spring
> or fall. Now some would argue our winter is really just a fall
> season, and I won't disagree, although we did have that south Texas
> 100-year snow storm last "fall." Anyway this year the weather has
> really been mild and we are experiencing a really pleasant spring for
> the first time in years. We have had daily visits by hummingbirds at
> the same time everyday, and bright red Cardinals bathing in the
> sprinklers. Even had a territorial dispute over the hummingbird
> feeder one day. All the trees and plants are really bounding back
> after that snow too. I guess having close to a real season cycle did
> them a little good. Even the orange trees are going to bear a bumper
> crop, and the young grape vines are putting on well. The wild
> grapevines (muscadine) which overtake the undeveloped lot next door
> (as well as my chainlink fence) are putting on huge clusters of
> grapes.
Ooh, muscadines..........oh my, how long has it been since I had
any of those? Good heavens, I think it was before my last son was
born, over 24 years ago, down in Albany, Georgia.
Yes, it was at Gus & Helen's home- we were there for an early
dinner and they showed us around their new property. They had a
huge mess of vines in the back yard loaded down with ripe ones.
No one out here has the vaguest idea what a muscadine is. And
kumquats are scarcer than gold nuggets. Maybe once in the winter
we'll see kumquats in the grocery, at over $4 a pound.
But we have lots of hummingbirds.
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{{{{{HUGZ!}}}}}
>^,,^< Miracle
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