Fireflies

[cornerofmadness]

There are a lot of things I love about my parents' property and it's the woods and the wildlife. There's a starfield of fireflies out there right now. Earlier a fat ground hog watched me going for pizza. Tonight the mother of one of the three fawns was out there eating while two rabbits melted into the grass as a crow harassed them to get at Japanese beetles (eat my black feathered friend, eat!)

Everyone was here today. Like seriously we had company from noon til six. Mom's best friend was here (they met in school, their mothers became friends, my brother and I became friends with her kids) and then Dad's cousin and her husband came.

I'm glad she's back. She had moved out with her son in Seattle for a couple years. I honestly have no idea how her husband is hanging in there. For well over a decade less than half his heart works. Out of ALL my cousins she is the most like me for all that she's my parents' age. Her son and I have more in common than me and my brother. We both have horrible health.

It was nice to see them but no writing got done and now the Christmas story is back for another edit. Yippee.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Heart eyes at all that wildlife

[cornerofmadness]

We have so much here. We have a herd of deer on the property some of whom come on the back patio and be bad

[thenewbuzwuzz]

What do bad deer do?

[cornerofmadness]

Eat our flowers, poke around on the tables. It's like we have 40 acres of nothing but trees and underbrush. Go eat that.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Hee! I bet the flowers are tastier.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm so sure of that. just ask the rabbits also in the flower in garden instead of the fields of clover.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Wow, even tastier than clover! You must be growing great flowers by forest creature standards.

[cornerofmadness]

We obviously are, just ask them all. Even the crows sit around waiting for handouts