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Tag: Wildlife

  • Family Grubbing – Part 2

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    Mama and her kids showed back up this morning. They almost look cute enough to consider adopting, but not after seeing where they’ve been sticking their noses 😊 Watching all these little guys a wierd thought suddenly flashed through my ADHD noggin’, not an uncommon event for this ole dude . . . Mark 5:12-13…

  • Family Grubbing

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    Fred D
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    Moma and her seven piglets showed up to last night and went ‘hog wild’ ‘rooting around’ for grub to ‘pig out’ on … lotsa’ ‘swineing’ going on 😊… that was really bad ☹ Smile … fire up the grill … and pass the Bar-B-Q sauce 😊 Keep Looking Up ^ . . . His Best…

  • Free Lawn Care

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    We’re truly grateful for the quiet sanctuary from the cacophony of the everyday hustle and bustle our Smoky Mountain digs provides. Up here on the mountain most of the friendly neighbors we share the forest with don’t have lawns.  Those who do are eligible for free lawn care services by roaming groups of feral neighbors…

  • Wild Serenity

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    Tucked away in the Smokies, each day we delight in unexpected visits from neighbors who have roamed these forests for eons. Gracefully wandering the woodlands, the gentle Odocoileus virginianus are among our favorites. Today a family’s silent, streamside  procession in the fallen snow was yet another blessing to enjoy. We R Blessed . . .…

  • Creepy Crawlers … Evolution or Creation?

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    I have a love/hate relationship with insects. Childhood summers frequently found me chasing orange Monarchs, yellow Swallowtails, and a variety of other brightly colored butterflies through fields with my net … and … smearing calamine lotion on painful bee stings and spider bites.   Not sure why God made mosquitoes and bald-faced hornets, but I’m…

  • Heat Wave

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    Fred D
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    Our area averages 34 days/year with temperatures of 90 degrees or more. Today was the 28th day this year with 90+ temps . . . this ain’t Alaska! You know it’s HOT when you’re awakened by splashing outside the bedroom at night and see Smoky cooling off in the creek. I was gonna’ throw him…

  • Father’s Day Visitors

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    Fred D
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    Hope this Father’s Day was an extraspecial one for y’all. We were blessed with a visit from a local single Mom with her two younguns’ 😊 Be Blessed, and . . . Keep Looking Up ^ … His Best is Yet to Come!

  • Flight

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    Fred D
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    Since childhood flight has always fascinated me. Dreams of dueling it with the Red Barron in my biplane later morphed into Top Gun in my F/A-18 Super Hornet zooming through the skies blasting enemy pilots. My pilot dreams met reality in the USMC troubleshooting electronics aboard lumbering helicopters, and being awarded hearing aids for my…

  • Sanctuary

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    Fred D
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    As a child each summer was spent with my mother, siblings and grandparents at their cabin in Promised Land, PA . . . and indeed it was . . . my childhood sanctuary.  From sunup to sundown I delighted roaming its forests and streams . . . and a virtual little John Muir was born…

  • Great Smoky Mountains Road Trip

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    Fred D
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    Blazing sunshine has pushed temps to near 80, a welcome respite from what has been an unusually cold winter here the Great Smoky Mountains. Energized, my permanent senior sidekick and I decided the day was custom made for a leisurely road trip. It quickly became obvious there were a million+ other individuals who had the…