Critters on Bonnie Lane

Here on the end of Bonnie Lane, you can find a number of different creatures!

Here are some birds in a tree. I love watching the birds. We have a nice variety from robins, sparrows and starlings, to cardinals, bluejays, wrens, and woodpeckers. There is even an eagle who nests further downstream! My son took the pic of the birds.

Last week we found a moth under our front porch light. How cool a find was this! Here he is near my red star.

Lately, we've been noticing a little woodchuck in the yard. Yes, I know they burrow and are destructive, but he is just the cutest little thing when he comes into my yard to eat. I think his burrow is on the riverbank. My son took these three pictures of the little guy.

Below is a little hedgehog I happened across under the bush next to my back patio. Oh wait, he's made of resin! He is so darn cute though that I wanted to include him.
We also had an indoor critter tonight. Yikes!!!!! I was sitting on the toilet when I saw this gargantuan wolf spider on my bathroom door. I swear, I first thought it was a miniature tarantula! It was the biggest wolf spider I had ever seen and every bit as big as this picture! Good thing I was already sitting on the toilet because I just about crapped myself.
He was near the door handle so I couldn't even open the door. I had to call for my son to open it slowly from the outside and I skedaddled out of there as quickly as I could! We found him on the outside of the door and sprayed him down with Raid, but he dropped to the floor and crawled off. I hope he met his untimely death of asphyxiation under my washer. The pic here was from Google images. I did not stop to take a picture of the nasty critter!

Ugh, after that horrid pic, I need something pretty to look at! Here is a peony in one of my flowerbeds.
And here is a picture of my driveway garden in early spring. I wish it still looked like this, but these were not flowers with long lives.
Let's hope the spider had a shorter life than these lovely flowers! There, now I feel a little bit better!

I may not be on much in the next couple of days. My youngest son is getting ready to go to Texas for 6 weeks with his father. This will be the first time that I have spent over a week away from my baby! More about that later. Have a great rest of the week!

Things that make you go, hmm?

Anyone who has ever raised children occasionally finds themselves pondering something left by the children and saying to themselves, "huh?" I had one of those moments last night.



Here is a sticky gooey pile of melted jumbo marshmallows on a paper towel and sitting on my stove. This defies explanation. I'm not even sure I want to know why! Makes me wonder if my 15 year old son was hoping to have a huge piece of Hershey's chocolate and a giant graham cracker suddenly join in on the party.



Next, I found a letter from my 19 year old son on the computer cabinet bulletin board:



"Mom,



I inadvertently gave your half-bath floor a wax today when I spilt my laundry detergent on the floor. Please look for the cap."



I don't even want to know how he did this, but at least he left me a note so that I would know why my slippers were sticking to the bathroom floor. After also asking me to finish his laundry, he went on to say that he appreciated it, and he would pick up milk and sweet tea before coming home. He ended by writing, "With love and thanks." Awwww! I forgive him for everything!


Okay, on to things pretty and pink and floral! Look what I found in my garden near the driveway! I love these big pink peonies!

For some reason, the peony above reminds me of the man-eating plant in Little Shop of Horrors. It looks like it wants to raise it's head and open its maw and say, "feed me Seymour!" Ok, I guess that's another "thing that makes you go hmmm." This is sometimes how my brain works, lol.
I think the flower above is wisteria. It grows on a vine on the fence between my yard and the neighbors. It smells pretty!

Well thats all for today. It rained hard last night and was overcast all day until about the time I came home. Usually its the other way around. Something to be thankful for...sunshine and sunsets!

I'm excited about the porch party that Rhondi at Rose Colored Glasses is hosting. You can find her link in an earlier post or on my list of favorite blogs. I'll be posting my front porch!