"Naaaa-Tuuuure!"

Imagine that word being said in the voice of Will Ferrell playing Robert Goulet.  LOL!  I cannot even hear the word "nature" anymore without thinking of that skit.  It's so funny... and I don't even know who Robert Goulet is.  

Anyway, we have lots of cool "naaaa-tuuuure" around our parts.  Lots of birds... especially cranes or egrets or heron.  I need to get a bird book to look them up, because they really like hanging out in our creek.  And I swear a bald eagle flew right past our porch and into a tree down the creek the other day!  Right in front of me!  Can you see the big guy the boys are looking at?

Two weeks ago we had torrential rains for about two days straight and our creek filled up a little and was flowing fast.  It even almost washed our bridge away...

Phil was supposed to be TDY over in Ft. Walton Beach those days, but he got two days off for the weather!  That was nice, unexpected treat.  And this guy hung out in that spot almost the whole first day.  Didn't even get scared away when we were making lots of noise on the porch.  Isn't he cute?

After two days of being stuck inside we couldn't take it anymore and let the boys get rid of some energy in the huge puddle in our driveway.  It was still drizzling at this point but they needed to get out!

 

 Davis was in HOG HEAVEN!

And then a few mornings later I went to put the garbage at the curb and saw this most beautiful little box turtle in our driveway!  Isn't his shell the most perfect tortoiseshell design?  I couldn't stop staring at him.

Right where J is standing there is now a gross blood spot (I thought it was oil from Phil's truck) from when our neighbor apparently killed a squirrel that was eating from her birdfeeder!  She never mentioned it... her boys told us one day.  And she never cleaned up the blood?!?  Gross!