Hungry?
If you remove this small tower of mud, reach down a foot or two into the hole below you will catch or be caught by a crawfish, crawdad, crayfish, mudbug, freshwater lobster, yabbie, some of the names given to the creature that lives below....
We see these along the road
Here's a picture of one...(not my picture)
Our Sunday Bicycle Ride
May 7th~2017
Right now, farmers in northeast North Carolina are harvesting an unusual crop that allows perfume, cologne and other fragrances to last longer, replaces a product previously gleaned from an endangered species and adds beauty to local roadsides in early summer.
Clary Sage
Back in the early 1960s, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was worried about a shortage of Oriental tobacco. So he sent botonists throughout the world to find a replacement to blend into it's cigarettes. They discovered Clary Sage was the perfect substitute.....If you want the whole story, which is an interesting one, go to:
https://www.ourstate.com/clary-sages-smell-success/
Except for the north east of North Carolina, clary sage is grown only in France and China.
~Fun Facts~
~Fun Facts~
The mama kitty continues to be fearful of me....rubs up against my legs purring but if I so much as lean towards her she hisses. The kittens were of course afraid of me also. I opened up an access door that is just to the right of the little hole so that if it rained the mama could find shelter with her kittens. I put a box with a cut out so the kittens could climb in and a small wool blanket.
Kittens and mama immediately and happily got into the box. I was feeding the kittens wet cat food which they devoured....though they look healthy, not thin.
But, two days later I went out in the early morning to feed them and found the box empty. I looked out the front window and, sure enough, there was mama kitty guiding the smallest little orange kitty across the road to the house that is left of the house where she raised her last litter of kittens months before.
I have to say, it was pretty special to see how that mama cat guided that little kitten across the road. That kitten ran under the mama cat....up the curb and under the porch. I have seen them running around on the porch for the last two days....I have never seen the front door of that house open....so, I think the owners have no idea the kittens are there.
Mama cat comes twice a day to eat....purring the whole time....
One after another came out of that little hole until there was a full head count of five. Two little orange ones, one tabby (see the bit of calico on his head?) one black and white and one calico. The other little orange one is not in this picture. This is a flower basket outside our kitchen window.
The first sighting...
How cute does it get?
About two weeks ago I followed mama kitty to see where the kittens might be hidden. She spotted me just as she was heading into Erick's backyard and ran away back towards where she had come. So, of all places she was hiding out in one of the many buildings and odd items in Erick's backyard.
But, last week she brought them, I guess at night, to our house. This is the little hole in the foundation I didn't even know was there....till a little head popped out:)
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