Today has been hopping with animal activity. There were four grosbeak out at the feeder today, and just as I went to take a picture, SIX more flew up! There were ten (5 mating pairs) total, but they didn't stay long enough for me to get a picture of all of them together. Quite a site.
On a sadder note, our guinea pigs must have gotten into something poisonous. I had them outside on the patio and around 4 pm this afternoon, Jimmy noticed that they were sleeping. I looked at them, and decided to move them into the shade, and oddly they didn't scurry about the way they usually do. I brought the cage into the house, and then I witnessed Cinnamon take his last breath...he just stopped breathing altogether. I couldn't believe it, and since Brown Sugar was also behaving listless, I figured that he was sick somehow as well...minutes later, he joined Cinnamon. Jim and I are trying to figure out what happened, and if they somehow got exposed to t
he rat poison out in the garage. Maybe a snake got to them, or a wasp, or something poisonous. Pretty sad thing.I can't say that traveling with guinea pigs is a picnic, but the kids sure did like those piggies. Emma called them the 'pinny pigs'...So, here's to a couple of tough guinea pigs, may you rest in peace.
Jim was sitting near the garage a little while ago, when a spider came down on a web, touching his head, then coming down to hand in front of his face....he said it was a huge black widow spider...Good Grief! He also found the frog shown above...I think it's a tree frog, but I didn't look it up.
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Awww, rest in peace piggies. OMG, the animal pictures are just amazing. Everything sounds so beautiful up there. I'm glad you guys are adjusting well to the move.
Janel B.
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