Tuesday, 27 May 2025

Crumbly Acres Fred and Cinnamon

Gardening has been tricky. It's been cold, dark, and wet. I was using the hacksaw to cut a metal piece for my new bottle tree. This was a mistake, as blood dripped down my hand. That was lots of fun! I wasted a sunny afternoon.

It's a work in progress. I spotted the bottle tree idea on Crafty Gardener's blog. Hers are much better.

We were out back, Cinnamon and I. He heard something. He sat thoughtfully, listening. I figured it could be our porcupine, or a turkey.  It turns out he had his eye on a chipmunk raiding our black morph gray squirrel's daily feed of seed. We hadn't seen #75 all day.


Cinnamon sat himself on the lower deck and watched our new friends, Fred, and her 4 miniFreds.




#75 showed up late in the day. We were wondering if he'd flown the coop.



Fred has been vigilant for predators. It's pretty safe in the yard. We're home all day and predacious critters tend not to visit at that time.


 May 26 – Three owls callout out the back. Quite a bit apart in the forest. 

More fun, we had the strange cat visit. In the night.


It's been funny watching them. Thanks to those who watch the videos. They will be gone so soon, good summer fun.  

 My feline inspector checked out my work.
 

14 comments:

Anvilcloud said...

It's nice out today. Enjoy.

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari OM
I do love the kithog videos... they are just too cute and if I was there, nothing would get done for me watching them every minute! YAM xx

eileeninmd said...

Cute photos of the ground hogs and your Cinnamon kitty.
Take care, have a great day!

Kathy G said...

Ouch on the cut!

Barbara Rogers said...

I really enjoy Fred and the kits...she just stays on guard while they munch! Fun to see that they back down the hole when thinking there's danger of any kind. She's trained them well, I'm thinking. Oh Cinnamon, aren't those flowers beautiful!

Jeanie said...

Don't you hate wasting a sunny afternoon? But it's such fun to see Fred and company!

DrumMajor said...

Ouch! And the last time you had a tetanus shot?......Linda in Kansas

Christine said...

Lovely post

RedPat said...

Cinnamon is such a character.

Mary Kirkland said...

Fred is just to much fun. Cinnamon looks like he's having a good time out there.

Elephant's Child said...

Love the Fredettes. And your snoopervisor.

Red said...

So when do the young Freds leave the mother and become independent?

Cloudia said...

I hope your deer hand will be okay. It is such a delight to visit you and see the creatures. It's healing actually! Smell that Canadian sanity!

Lowcarb team member said...

Lovely to see Fred and the kits.

All the best Jan