Posts Tagged ‘the house’

I honestly don’t know why I bother to put plants in the hanging baskets. Every year they are taken over by squatters. One year it was wrens. Another year it was a squirrel who decided to have her babies there. This year, doves have decided my ferns are the perfect nesting spot. They have two wee ones:

Baby Doves in the Fern

They are ridiculously cute, which is why I can’t bear to evict them. They know this, which is why they continually nest in my plants. “The Lady in the Box is a sucker,” they say. They’re right.  I should go fill the bird feeders now and toss out that day-old bread.

I’m wondering if my computer catastrophe yesterday was due to some kind of reptilian curse.  I inadvertently excavated a wee skink and her eggs while tending the flowers in my flower pots. I felt absolutely terrible about it!

Eggs from a Blue-tailed Skink

As you can see, we had one casualty, probably crushed by my spade.  The poor little skink hid under one of the columns on my front porch and stared at me and her eggs the whole time. I tried my very best to re-bury them in the flower pot when I was done, but who knows if I buried them in the right place or at the right depth.  Only time will tell.

Anyway, with the way the skink was staring at me, I was certain she was putting some sort of reptilian curse on me for being a baby-killing monster. I jokingly said as much to The Mister while we were replacing her eggs.  Then, of course, both my laptop and my desktop PC died yesterday morning.  I have that situation under control, but now The Mister’s crackberry is acting strangely.

That’ll do, lizard.  That’ll do.