June 20TH

Today is National Ice Cream Soda Day and National Milkshake Day.
Wow!
My 2 favorite kinda days....
Especially in this heat!
I've gotta make sure to celebrate with at least one of those today.
Its also American Eagle Day.
How fitting that the eagle is given his own day?

Especially in a summer full of patriotic days,

Memorial Day, D Day, Flag Day and the Fourth of July.

We'll celebrate with our own raptors...…

Ethel

She's still broody.

She won't leave the nest.

That's why she's giving me the stink eye.

Pepper

She's eyeballing a lizard,

 standing perfectly still to catch it.

Then she scratched the ground like she wanted it to know

she was gonna grab it.

She shot over toward the lizard with lightening speed,

grabbed it in her beak and ran off with Hazel in pursuit.

It was like a scene from "Jaws", 

where Quint and Chief Brody 

are in the classroom and 

Quint (Pepper) scratcher nails 

on the chalkboard to get everyone's attention.

"Sometimes that lizard, he looks right into ya.

Y'know the thing about a lizard, he's got ….

lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes.."

Gulp!

 

Hazel

This is the second before Pepper grabbed the lizard.

In the chase, Hazel got a lizard part.

Don't know exactly which part,

but a part nonetheless.

Gross.

Nugget

She has no idea of what's going on behind her.

She is just following me around.

But....

She was accused of calling a Code Red on Ethel.

Lucy said that it was Nugget who called the Code

because Ethel is occupying their spot in the coop.

When confronted with the evidence,

I simply asked for the truth.

Nugget just clucked.

She meant that I can't handle the truth.

But,

She said "We live in a coop that has walls,

and those areas have to be used to lay eggs,

you want me in that coop,

you need me in that coop!"

I conceded.

I pushed out Ethel.

Whew!

The drama!

Lucy 

Chillin' in a dust bath.

(Looking deceased)

Their habit of this unnerves me.

Hazel and Pepper

(Maverick and Iceman)

Scanning the perimeter for bogeys.

(lizards and bugs)

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Eggplant 

Purple Bell Peppers

Petunias

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And

remember,

never take life too seriously.....

You'll never get out

alive!!

Always Hugs!!