Nature loving
There have been two positive sightings in the new, sterile, temporary domain I am currently inhabiting, on Tuesday Jack and I were plane-spotting in the garden, his favourite pastime, and overhead swept a Red Kite. It was beautiful with the sun catching and flashing off its red feathers. When I've seen them locally before they have always been quite high, so their beauty is less obvious, this one was low though and gave us a wonderful display. Then at dusk last night I was looking out of a bedroom window when something came swooping down and landed on a roof about 20 feet away and level with the window I was leaning out of, it was a little owl. Well, it was a small owl, whether it was a Little Owl I don't know but I was really happy to see a sight of nature in my current 'bijou' abode.
On a 'whoops' note, I have hoovered up my off-white carpet! I didn't do it deliberately, it just unravelled along a join, poor carpet laying, is my diagnosis.
Hubby has gone off on his golf weekend, and it's raining. Poor thing! I'm decorating the shower room in his absence, Lunar Dust is the favoured shade. The 'proper' decoraters are doing a great job in the rest of the house, except the kitchen which remains a soot encrusted hole. Patience is a virtue, and boy am I being virtuous.
Yesterday daughters, Amy, Jack and I went to a Goat Centre. Jacks face was a picture when he first saw all these animals close-up. He soon overcame his reservations about these creatures and spent the afternoon happily feeding them cabbage. Amy's Mummy showed that her recovery from the CS was complete by launching herself on to a trampoline, bouncing away quite happily, even attempting a few moves.
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(19.8.05 13:27) Plane spotting in the garden has always been one of my very favourite past-times. As for seeing a Red Kite and a Little Owl lucky you. |
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(19.8.05 14:17) FlightBuff - Just looked at your blogs, I think you do more than stand in the garden spotting planes  I think Grandson inherited his plane watching from me, airshows are the most amazing day out. Favourite plane? For me its the Tornado. If 'Jim' still 'fixed it'? A flight in a Hawk trainer.
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(19.8.05 15:02) I think that you are right. My interest started in the same way as Jack's well over fifty years ago. I'll do an entry on the Tornado, and the Hawk, sometime. Gosh, I'll be doing request entries next ! |
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(19.8.05 19:44) Lol, ain't it nice to live in the countryside.... My pusscat came indoors one evening around nine 'chuntering' away like she 'really' wanted my attention, got me outa me chair and out in the back yard where she sat down and made that chirrup sound cats do.... while looking intently at the conservatory roof.... Bloody great Barn Owl sitting there.... If she'd been a smaller cat she might have been dinner for it.....lol . Planes!... Tucano trainers, tornado's, GR8 harriers, hercules, various helo's... they all use this area.... |
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(20.8.05 10:08) Chippy - If we lived near you Grandson and I would have a constant crick in our necks from looking skywards. A barn owl, the nearest I've got to seeing one of those was when I was in the Brownies! |