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There are plenty gray ones as well but the white squirrels are so beautiful and an infrequent to my bird feeders. They are not albinos, as they have a black spot on top of the head...wish I had a pic.
White squirrels, cool! Here in NJ, we have black squirrels in the Princeton area. They don't live in my part of NJ, but I sure would love to see them here.
I was putting on a pair of shoes yesterday. For some reason, as I brought the left shoe up from the floor, I thought I saw a little motion inside. I say "for some reason" because I don't normally stare into my shoes before putting them on, LOL. I looked in; the motion was from a tiny spider. The tiny spider had woven a tiny web inside my shoe (spanning from the inside top to the inside bottom) and was apparently patiently waiting for a gnat or other suitable prey to come along. By "tiny", I mean the entire spider was about the size of the head of a quilting pin. (Quilting pins look like this, in case you are not familiar with them: https://www.createforless.com/Quilti...c/pid8597.aspx)
I put the shoe back down. I figure I will leave that pair of shoes alone for a couple days and then check on the Itsy Bitsy Spider.
The absolute power of Mother Nature with back-to-back major hurricanes (Harvey & Irma). One cannot help but be in awe of such power and how small and helpless we are. And the wild fires out west, one I know was started from a lightning strike, is sad to see. In both cases, striking how nature itself can destroy nature.
One a nicer note, my daily run in with chippie, our little chipmunk who likes to show him/herself when we are outside, sometimes just sitting there several feet away. And we don't even feed him/her.
The absolute power of Mother Nature with back-to-back major hurricanes (Harvey & Irma). One cannot help but be in awe of such power and how small and helpless we are. And the wild fires out west, one I know was started from a lightning strike, is sad to see. In both cases, striking how nature itself can destroy nature.
One a nicer note, my daily run in with chippie, our little chipmunk who likes to show him/herself when we are outside, sometimes just sitting there several feet away. And we don't even feed him/her.
Ah, but it does it for the purposes of rejuvenation.
I've been seeing some of the squirrels that frequent my yard jumping around and flipping on the ground, somersaulting and in general acting crazy!
Did some google searches and found out the poor guys likely have a common parasite that makes them super itchy. Flies lay their eggs under their skin and while waiting to hatch they make the squirrels itch so they do all kinds of antics. Luckily it's relatively harmless for them and I guess only lasts a few weeks in mid/end of summer. You can find all kinds of videos on youtube - here's a great compilation:
You are so right....I enjoy being in thunderstorms for that reason...but I have to be alone.
Enjoy chippie...near the top on enjoyment scale...
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The absolute power of Mother Nature with back-to-back major hurricanes (Harvey & Irma). One cannot help but be in awe of such power and how small and helpless we are. And the wild fires out west, one I know was started from a lightning strike, is sad to see. In both cases, striking how nature itself can destroy nature.
One a nicer note, my daily run in with chippie, our little chipmunk who likes to show him/herself when we are outside, sometimes just sitting there several feet away. And we don't even feed him/her.
Nice of you to let that spider have a few days...you are my kind of person
QUOTE=LoriNJ;49488426]I was putting on a pair of shoes yesterday. For some reason, as I brought the left shoe up from the floor, I thought I saw a little motion inside. I say "for some reason" because I don't normally stare into my shoes before putting them on, LOL. I looked in; the motion was from a tiny spider. The tiny spider had woven a tiny web inside my shoe (spanning from the inside top to the inside bottom) and was apparently patiently waiting for a gnat or other suitable prey to come along. By "tiny", I mean the entire spider was about the size of the head of a quilting pin. (Quilting pins look like this, in case you are not familiar with them: https://www.createforless.com/Quilti...c/pid8597.aspx)
I put the shoe back down. I figure I will leave that pair of shoes alone for a couple days and then check on the Itsy Bitsy Spider. [/quote]
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