owls...

I think owls are so neat! Once while taking a walk at night, there was a huge owl perched on top of a stop sign. I spent a good while just watching it, wishing someone else was with me to share in the moment.

Awhile back I read the book Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl. If you love animals and owls, it's a must read! I laughed, I cried...definitely a great book!

So I was thrilled when my bloggy friends Jeanette and Shana shared Molly the Owl with me! It's a live feed of a barn owl named Molly. She has five eggs that are due to hatch in the coming days and weeks. In fact, I believe one is hatching now. Her "husband" McGee visits and brings her food. Very neat and I'm now totally addicted to watching Molly now!

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ya reckon this is for real?

real or not this creature is definitely coolio!

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buzz...

so this little adventure happened a while back and i'm finally getting around to sharing it.

imagine sitting on your back porch and all of sudden hearing a buzz. a big buzz that is getting louder and louder. and of course you're thinking "what the heck?". and that's when you see them. well you can't really see anything except a huge dark spot in the yard. then you get it...a swarm of bees! it was pretty creepy, especially when your husband watches too much sci-fi and you think you've found yourself in the middle of an "attack of the killer bees" movie.

the bees left. for a day or so. and then they came back...

this time they headed for the tree and one by one they clustered on a branch until it was a huge basketball sized glop of bees. they looked like honey bees. now i'm not going to lie, i was freaked out!

my husband hit up google and assured me there was no problem. apparently a new queen came to town and the hive broke up. the new group was looking for a safe place to build a new hive and it most definitely wouldn't be in our tree. the tree was just a temporary hang out while the "real estate scouting bees" found a proper place. and if we didn't bother them, they wouldn't bother us, then soon they would be gone. or something like that.

ok i was still a little nervous. but in fact they didn't bother us and were gone within a few hours. they never came back so i'm assuming they found some prime real estate in which to build their new hive. and in turn the girls (and me) got a nice little lesson in bees.

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