Doing Stuff/Fixing Stuff/Sticking Stuff in here ...

... I just "undecorated" my blog ... I figured it was time to take off all the Christmas junk - seeing Hot cross buns and Easter eggs have been in the shops for a month now (yes - they were there by the beginning of January! ... who wants to be thinking about buying hot cross buns and chocolate eggs that close to Christmas? ... yes I guess some of you do - those of you who don't have to actually PAY for it all ... LOL)

Anyway ... is it time for a few more animal photos?

ok, why not?

These photos were all taken sometime last year (not in any particular order - this is just the order I found them in when I went digging around in my photos)

This can be a dangerous game to play with a cat:

(yes that is MY blood on my hand - Spook has very sharp claws)

Diesel looks like he was trying to blend in with the decor ...

well ... surely Mum put that quilt on the chair so I could sleep on it?!

er ... Diesel x Stevie Wonder?

(DH's sunnies - big ugly ones that fit over his glasses)

This is not Spot either - this is Oscar ...

... at least that is what DD told me she named him (her? ... I can't tell)

Not Spot, probably not "Skippy" either ... but he wasn't particularly bothered about me being there.

He wasn't particularly bothered about the electic fence he went through just afterwards either.

Maybe I should have named this one "Spot"?

- a ladybeetle (some call them ladybirds - but it is not a bird, some call them ladybugs - but it is not a bug it is a beetle - so I call them ladybeetles ... or ladybirds ... depends if I am in a scientific/technical mood, or if I am not really thinking about it and/or just calling it what I did as a kid - a ladybird ... LOL)
This one was just about to fly away (it did that just after I took the photo!)

Nothing much goes to waste around here ...

... "mmm burnt toast"

When we go walking, there is no point in me throwing sticks - Diesel tends to ignore them - he likes to fetch rocks ... fist size or bigger! ... and rather than bring them back, he "hides" them next to bushes/etc and/or drops them and lifts his leg on them! The only time this odd dog will fetch sticks, is if they are thrown into water ...

... and the bigger the stick, the more fun he seems to think it is!

Talking about water ...

... guess who just noticed that there are FISH in this bucket?!

This is not Spot either ... it is an "inchworm" ...

... not that inchworms are actually worms - they are caterpillars ... lol

btw, I was at an opening for some art/textile exhibition a few years back, and I found a little green inchworm on my parsley ... I showed it to someone (who turned out to be one of the people who had organised the food!) and they got all worried and thought I would be upset about finding a buggly in my food - and they were surprised when I told them I actually like finding things like that - because it means the food was fresh and healthy! ... if it had been sprayed with chemicals there would have been no inchworms on it! ... and if it had been in cold storage for a few months there would have been no inchworms on it ... but it had been freshly picked from someone's home garden that morning - inchworm and all - LOL

(yes I ate the parsley, and NO I did not EAT the inchworm ... not that it would have done me any harm ... but the inchworm wouldn't have liked that!)

ok ... that will have to be enough pictures for now ... because that is all I am putting here for now ;-)

... I am surprised this editor thingy isn't having a hissy fit actually - it usually doesn't like it when I put too many pictures in one post and then try and re-arrange them and type stuff ...

correction - it IS having a hissy fit - when I preview it - all the spaces are missing and it is a mess!

... but there is one little trick I can do that seems to make it do what I want ... at least for now ...
(my rambling on must be hard enough to follow as it is - let alone if the spaces between the lines are all missing/in the wrong place!)