No Blues on Friday 13th

I pondered all week whether or not to go to the Blue Angels show on Pensacola Beach today.  I finally decided not to go.  Instead I stayed home and continued with my yard clean-up.  I’ll catch the Blues next time, God willing.  After watching the show from the Pensacola lighthouse I know I’ll never have a better seat for the show.

I’ve made good progress cleaning up the yard.  I’ve got a trailer full of yard junk to go to the land fill .  I spent a good part of today repairing my security cameras and running their cables neatly to the DVR.  My garage door had sliced 2 of the cables and I replaced older cameras with better ones I bought a while back.  Now the system is back to full operation.

While running cables I again had company from a tree frog that has made our separated downspout its home.  I was surprised that with all my movement and hammering the frog didn’t hide.  It is as if it was watching me work.

I got my camera  and snapped a few pictures.  He even smiled for me.

Then he made a bubble for me.

 

This frog has lived there for at least 3 weeks.  It’s right below a floodlight that must attract many insects to his location.

Tomorrow I may slack off on yard work and make Kayak carts for 2 kayaks.  Well that is related to yard clean up.  I going to move the kayak storage racks to behind the workshop/shed.  The carts will make it easier to drag the yaks to and from the CRV.

Yesterday when I fed Meredith in the morning she only ate half of the can of cat food I gave her.  Buzz didn’t show up and so that half can of wet food just sat there all morning.  I was working in the back yard so none of the other neighborhood cats came around to eat it.

I came in the house for lunch and when I stepped outside I was surprised to see a turtle, about the size of my hand, chowing down.  I dashed inside and grabbed a camera but when I turned it on it had no card.  The turtle was crawling away.  I went inside found the card and went back out.  The turtle was gone.  I was surprised how quickly it could move.

I have disturbed many critters in my yard clean-up.  Many lizards and toads.  Tons of slugs and snails – thankfully no snakes.  I had no idea there was a turtle out there.  I guess he lives under my garden decking.  There is plenty of water there and lots of vegetation and insects.  I’ll have to keep an eye out for him.