BLUE HERON & MAGGIES NEW RIDE

 I am beginning to think I live in a Blue Heron reserve. On my morning walk in the neighborhood, there are 5 Blue Heron nest in these giant pine trees. It must be nesting season, there is a lot of noise and flapping of wings going on.

 I have a really bad camera so right click on the pics to see better. I am almost to embarrassed to post these pic''s. Next year I am getting a new camera. I am thrilled to see all these birds! There could be more than 5 pair but that is how many I have seen so far. I have not seen the guy that visits our front yard everyday. He must be busy lol

And last but not least :) Maggie got a new dogie mobile. Is she not the cutest thing! I got this dog stroller at the flea market yesterday. I have been looking in the pet stores, and all they have are ugly black strollers. Besides being ugly, black will bake a little dog in the hot Florida sun. What do these people think anyway?? They have a nice little pet shop at the flea market and I had seen these there last year. So went to check them out and got this one. It comes apart, and is a carrier, and a car seat. Cant beat that. And was a few buck cheaper than the ugly black ones. She seams to like it ok, I wheeled her around the house then in the drive way today and she did ok. She hates to have her pic taken, when I was trying to take this, she turned her head away, I told her I see a kitty and she jerked around and I snapped it lol. This will come in handy when traveling, she can now go everywhere with me and we can be tourist & see things. Was limited before, cause could not leave her in hot truck. Well that's it for now thanks for looking and come back soon
blessings
G&M

BAD BOY BIRD & A CACHE

I now tell Maggie that it is BAD BOY BIRD and that it is "ok" when I tell her things are ok she knows what that means and calms down. Bird is now coming every few hrs or so, maybe he is taking his turn on the nest. Hope he will soon be catching bugs and too busy helping feeding his "kids" to bother the "other" bird in the window ! lol

Found this cache over the weekend. It took me about 15 min to find. My GPS was a little off. Was just about ready to leave and looked one more place from a different angle and there it was.

Close up of the cache.

Here are a couple of pic's for my son. His name. WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL. Cold this morning only 46....but will be mid 70's this afternoon and sunny. What a great day. I am getting ready to go north in another month. Going to get an oil change in the truck this week and checking a few other things. Got to get my AAA back in service. Diverticulitis is not totally healed yet, and I think I rushed putting more fiber in my diet, this is really hard to deal with. Maybe if I had not let it go so long it would be better. So anyway I am back on soft diet, and low fiber again. But I am definitely feeling better than I have in almost a year. That makes me think I will be getting more painting done in the house this year. I really cant wait to get home for awhile! I will not be moving to Florida permanently. So I will be keeping my home in PA at least for now. I still want to travel around esp. in the winter. I will gladly be a snow bird lol. As long as dad is in good shape I will be doing summers in PA. Not sure about an RV at this time , but I am working toward a van. All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings Donna

HE'S.........................BAAAAACK!

ABOVE: Well so much for the "scare crow" Will ya look at that defiant red head ! He is back at it today!

So I did what worked yesterday until the wind whipped them away. I covered the windows.

Not to pretty but it works.

I had this empty hanging box planter left over from a stag horn plant. Seen these beautiful petunias at WM yesterday. Got them to hang in front of my window for something pretty to look at ! Yeah....right. Judy if you read this ...do you know how long this woodpecker will keep this up? I would hate to cover up the windows for a long time. Or do you know of any other way to make him stop this?

Maggie and I went to the park at sunrise for breakfast and our daily devotions. Was so peaceful. until the dog walkers came out. Then Maggie could not contain herself. Look how still the river is this morning. Well thats it for now thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

G&M

TOMATO'S & A WOODPECKER

ABOVE: Here is our first spring tomato's getting ripe. Dad planted cherry (these ) and Roma for the spring/summer. Roma not ripe yet, but soon.

ABOVE: The problem woodpecker. This morning sitting on window, this innocent looking bird, has cause havoc all day long. Pecking constantly at my window today. Still at it @ 5 pm. Maggie has been going postal all day. We have tinted windows and on the out side in the day light it is a mirror. He sees himself and thinks it is his new mate. I don't know the mating habits of woodpeckers but he hits at the window , chirping and his tail feathers are out like a fan. So I think that is what is going on.

I put up a scare crow of sorts, you can see how the windows are mirrors. You can see me taking a pic.

This is his nest. You can see him sitting on the top if you right click and enlarge pic. A few years ago the power co. came to change out the power pole. When they were working dad went out and told them that a woodpecker nested in the pole. The said no problem and cut that part of the old pole and attached it to the new one. And bingo.... woodpecker had a new old home. Right now he is sitting on the window looking at himself. I think he is wore out.

WEATHER IN MELBOURNE FL: nice 79 and sunny with breeze. Thanks for looking and come back soon

Blessings

G&M

POWER TRAIL

Maggie and I went out caching this weekend. I never cached a power trail before. This what I found when looking for this one. Out in the Florida farm land, long stretches of road with open fields and cows. Up this side and .....

down this side..... not many cars on this road. And being in Florida it is all very flat.I got these pic out of order, but I found this at one of the caches. Its stone and carved with letters. I wonder if it is a way marker or what.

There is a cache hanging in there. Right click to make the pic bigger.

All the caches were like these that I found. I only found 6 but, there are a bunch along this road. I will be going back to get more. I got tired out so had to stop.

The caches are in bushes like these all along the road.

This one was easy to see, being green in all the dead branches. Some blend right in, that's why I don't see them. These type of caches are nice for me, because I can not go in and do the bush whacking thing. I need easy ones. It is still a challenge for me, because I do not see well in bushes lol. I know a lot of cachers don't like these but I do. Something for everyone.

I have been feeling much better, except when I eat something that I should not eat. But with this you don't know that until you eat it. One good thing is I don't eat as much and eating much better and losing some wt. Went to sunrise church serves on Sunday, Maggie went along as it was down at the park outside. I will post about it next. Got the mini album done for my granddaughter to be. Her shower is first weekend May. You can take a look on my other blog.

http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ I posted about it today. Well all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings

G&M

"CACHING" UP :)

Me and Maggie took a day trip last week. Went looking for Florida State Parks. Well found the Sebastien State park, but also what I found out you have to pay just to ride around these parks. Something I am not use to, in PA we have free state parks, only have to pay if you want to go into the camp grounds. I didn't want to pay $4 just to spend a couple hrs looking so we did not go in the park. On down the road we went across the inter coastal water way back to the main land and found this little park at the end of the cause way. Most cause ways here have these little parks. Did not see any manatees here.

There is a geo cache down this way, but just as we started to look for it a muggle fisherman pulled in and that was that.

We pulled down to the other end of the park and had our lunch under these palm trees. Watched all the interesting things on and around the water. Nice! I am in Florida what can I say :):):) If you click on the pic to enlarge it , I think you can see little Maggies cute little head in the window. Oops she is hiding, but I found out you have to right click on the pic and then click open and it will make it bigger.

Next up on another day we went geocaching. This is on the grounds of a local hospital. Nice to come out here and eat your lunch while working here. Or just on a break.

Here is the cache...see it? Has a magnet on it and stuck to the side of this box. My health issues are much on the mend and I am feeling really good. I think I have been feeling bad since last summer and didn't really know what it was. I know one thing I will be eating a much better diet from now on. I really feel like doing things again! We have found more geocaches but I will save them for other posts so its not so long between posts! I will be leaving here the first week in June to see my peeps in PA and go to my grandsons wedding in Pittsburgh that should be fun!! I plan on doing a lot more sight seeing and traveling here in Florida and more. I will be buying Maggie a stroller this month so she can go places and give me more freedom. Having Maggie is like having a 2 year old child to care for. But what would I do with out her!!!!!!???? Anyone out there know where to get one at a good price? Today I am going to be working on a paper bag mini album for my granddaughter to be. It is for her bridal shower. If you want to know more about it go here and check it out. My other blog. http://redapplejunction.blogspot.com/ Well all for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings

G&M

COUPLE OF CACHES

ABOVE : This is a typical fence cache here in Melbourne. This seems to be a very busy little ball park with a swimming pool on the other side of that building.

This is a cache I found the other day. When I walked up to the area it was lying on the dirt in plain site. Don't think it was to be like that. I signed the log and cameoed up some. Hope I got it in right spot.

ABOVE : This is the cache that I found.

Not much going on here. Weather has been great even a little too hot. Having a few health issues but getting better. Was able to start walking in the mornings again so that is a plus. Want to lose some wt before June, grandsons wedding, and because I am more than a little over wt and i want to stay healthy in my senior years. Wish I had more to tell you about Florida happenings but I just have not been doing much. I really would like to take a few camping trips maybe in April. My brother is coming for a visit this month. Will be glad to see him. Maybe we will go fishing in the ocean again. That was fun even if we didn't catch anything lol. Poor Maggie got a hot spot this week it has been almost a year since the last one. Maybe she does not like FL.

All for now thanks for looking and come back soon

blessings

G&M