It’s been awhile again, decided to share something that happened over the past few days.  First of all, my other girl, Mokie, came (by way of a vehicle and driver) to visit me in The Villages.  We had a wonderful visit this past long weekend…she went back home yesterday.

But this post is about a lone duck.  I finally realized, yesterday, that this duck has been hanging out on the bank of the left most pond in the back yard.  I had decided last night that if this duck was STILL hanging out that I would call animal control.  If there was something wrong, I wanted to get help for the bird.  I recently saw a news report of a bird with fish line wrapped around it’s beak…so much so that it was starving.  Two rescuers captured the bird, freed the line from it’s beak and away it flew.

This morning, quite by happenstance, I looked out of the window just in time to see THREE ducks flying away.  And then I remembered.

Among the various wildlife I’ve witnessed out of my back window since I moved here the first of May (has it been that long???)…there have been lone birds (the blue heron, both a young one and an older one, both by themselves), flocks of birds of all kinds, and pairs of birds (two pairs of red headed cranes, and two pairs of two different kinds of ducks).  There has also been a TRIO, but I hadn’t seen the trio lately.  Just this one lone duck hanging out, now I realize, as waiting…

It appears, from the visual facts I have before me, that this duck was somehow separated from the trio and remained where left by the other two…awaiting their return.

I know there is a “lesson” in this happening…and perhaps some day I’ll have the luxury of having the time to delve into the lesson, but for now, I’m simply recording the information.  Suffice it to say, I am relieved that the duck is just fine and especially so, now that I know it has been reunited.

It’s raining and overcast today.  Much like I felt yesterday when Mokie left to go back to Georgia.  I attempted to clean up the rest of the dog hair and the other evidence that she shared the last 4 days with me, here in The Villages, before I took care of other errands and then escaped to the square to dance away the clouds of her leaving.

I’m not crying (at the moment), she’s back home where she’s comfortable.

Life goes on.

The other day I was talking about the lack of rain in this “rainy season”.

It has rained every day since.

And there are TRUE baby gators out back now…one the size of my hand, one the size of my forearm.  The baby gators I’ve spoken about before were the size of my arm.  And, of course, there was the BIG gator…as big as my whole body.

Tonight I came home from the grocery, it was dusk, and there was a BAT on my garage door.

The bush next to the garage is a baby frog bush…there are so many little frogs it is as if the bush is alive, it actually MOVES.  Until you look closely and you see that it’s just a bush full of baby frogs.

When it rains, the baby frogs climb up the house and from the back room you can see frogs on the windows, and out the sliding glass door, there are frogs on the screened in porch, even on the screen top of the screen porch.  FROGS everywhere.

Miracles?  I made a few sales of my ads today.   I will be able to deposit enough money tomorrow to pay a nice chunk of the rent for next month.  I made a contact which may result in a real JOB.  One with stock options and which could, very well, make me a wealthy woman.  All because I stopped, stepped out of the fear, to ask another business owner if she would like to purchase an ad in my flyer.  She said yes.  And then, when I asked for a jpg of her logo…she said, ” I can’t get to the network from my PC “.   AND, I FIXED IT!   I was handsomely rewarded.  I made a friend.  And, I found a home for my $3200 NEOX Reclining Massage chair!!   And, she wants to buy my Sunlight Solo Sauna.

Miracles.

Gotta love it!

It’s raining, second time today, and I just took a work break and there he is (they are all he’s to me!).  I can’t tell if it’s the same one that I’ve seen these past weeks, but it’s a Blue Heron.  No gators today, although there was a little one out there yesterday, or was it the day before?  Ducks and other birds I don’t know the names of, but no Red Headed Cranes, so far anyway.

This is my nephew Roland…he likes to play. And, that’s an understatement!!!

Once you get to youtube, search for Roland, Lucy and Omar!   There are a couple of videos up there that show the great weekend I had June 4-8!

Below are some photos shot the other day when the Big Gator was in the center pond…I MISSED the part when he/she ran towards the middle, but you can see the resulting ripples and the absence of the birds scared away by the event…  Anyway, this is what I get to see from the back room of the house where I’m renting…