Sometimes it's just not worth getting up!

Hello Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss Wendy and Eric de Ferret here.

Today has been a strange day.

To start off we went over the old golf course with The Missus first thing and as she was ferreting around in the grass and bushes, she came across a dragonfly that was rather dopy! Well, it didn't want to fly off when TM got close to it and was sort of sleeping as she brought it back for Old Two Legs to see.

OTL being OTL, whipped out his camera and took a few snaps which, I must admit, didn't look too bad.

 

Its legs looked a bit wobbly but it didn't look like it wanted to fly off. OTL didn't get the macro lens out or the tripod and he had the 35mm lens on the small camera. So, it was all hand held and no anti-vibration. In fact, to keep the camera steady he had to rest the camera on top of a packet of chocolate chip cookies!

That's what you get when you get stopped half way through cleaning the ferret cages and removing a ton of ferret poo!

 The dragon fly was standing on a plastic box, so it was easy to rotate to get different shots.

It was lucky that the camera had a small flash on it and with a couple of adjustments the colours came out quite well.

 

Getting close up was always going to be difficult because of the lens size and balancing the camera on the cookie packet!

After a while OTL decided he must get back to poo shovelling and decided to put the dragonfly on one of the rocks by the side of the pond.

So, being careful not to drop the dragonfly he put it down on the rock and just as the dragonfly landed, it fluttered its wings and took off!

Unfortunately, the dragonfly got half way across the pond when a female house sparrow dived across the pond from the left-hand side, grabbed the dragonfly in its beak and flew off to enjoy a late breakfast in one of the trees in the garden!

As I've said before.

Sometimes it's just not worth getting up!

See you tomorrow.

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss Wendy and Eric de Ferret.

Year End and that's another one done!

 

Hello Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss Wendy and Eric de Ferret here again.

Guess wot? at the end of the month OTL will be celebrating another year of paying taxes, in fact he will have been in business a whole twenty-seven years!

You know, that is more than twice the age of Holly and I plus a bit of Eric!

Today it has been a little wet, OK, not a little but more like very wet!

It's funny to see Old Two Legs rushing around the house shutting all the windows before the carpet or curtains get soaked!

Lunchtime there was a 'window' in the wet and off we went around the sea wall. 

We saw a new flower, all white with a bud behind it.

 OTL didn't know what it was called but confirmed that it started off his hay fever!

The tide was out so there was no chance of a swim or deep paddle! Mind you that doesn't mean there was nothing there. As we got close, we could hear a rook making a load of noise but couldn't see where it was coming from.

It was Holly that spotted it, a mother rook feeding the young rook. It was the young rook that was making all of the noise, typical youngster, screaming and hollering to be fed, being too lazy to find its own food!

 

 

 F EEEEEE D ME EEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 Holly said that all youngsters were noisy and can't understand why they don't take time to enjoy the flowers instead of disturbing the peace and quiet!

There were no bugs on the bushes, it was too windy but at the forest there was a Red Admiral resting on a flower. OTL tried taking a photo but it was doing what OTL called a 'Woofer Pose'.

Turn around and stick yer butt out!

 

 

 No! I will not smile for the camera!

 

 So, that was it, although OTL hung around he didn't get a front view, just the Woofer Pose!

Back home a new toilet seat has arrived and OTL has got him a job to do, maybe tomorrow when he finds out where he has left all his tools!

Bye for now.

 

Luv,

 

Daisy, Holly, Miss Wendy and Eric de Ferret.