We have much more to say about China and many more pictures but as we recover from our trip we can't seem to get ourselves organized enough. To be honest, getting out of bed in the morning has been a bit of a trial this last week. Since we aren't sleeping during the night sleeping during the day is tempting - but not the way to cure jet lag. Anyway another story...
See these?
Tough to spot I know... but if you look closely you can see the wide open mouth of a baby swallow. Remember when we told we had new family members? Well said family members had babies.
Cute right? Not so much. The Daddy swallow takes his job of protecting his babies very seriously. As soon as either cat steps out of the house that bird dips in to a screaming dive-bomb and flaps his wings so loudly they sound like bullets firing. Needless to say the cats don't like it. In fact they don't like it so much that Ow has stopped going outside... ever. Colonel takes the occassional risk. We think that he is hoping (being the incredibly lazy cat that he is) that the bird will fly directly in to his mouth so that he can prance back in the house and show off his "hunting skills" to Ow. Well that plan isn't working. About 10 minutes ago Mark had to crawl under the chaise lounge and rescue Colonel. He was stuck under there shivering, mewling... terrified. Mark had to carry him back in to the house and shoo the kamikaze bird away.
This isn't going to help our "clean up the fireplace" quest as both cats were going to the bathroom outside.
The excitement never ends.
2 comments:
You'll get no sympathy from me...you have COCONUTS in your backyard! ;-)
Oh goodness. I bet that's not helping. Good luck! Scout is doing good, but lonely.
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