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A Bald Eagle, a Golden Eagle and a fish

Posted on Tuesday April 8th, 2014 by | 1 comment

Pauline and I came upon a large Bald Eagle sitting on the side of the road and of course, the only camera we had with us was our iPhones. We started to take a few pictures when a Golden Eagle flew over the Bald Eagle and the Bald Eagle started to take off when we noticed he had a large fish, that was still flopping, in his talons.

He didn’t quite get it secured so he sat back down on top of the fish as the Golden sat in a tree about 10 yards away. We watched for a few minutes and listened to both of them cuss each other out.

We slowly drove down the road and I got as far away as I could with the truck, and for the most part the Bald Eagle was cool with us, but at the last second he took off leaving the still flopping fish behind, so we continued on our way to dump a load of brush off at the burn pit.

We returned about 10 minutes later and the Bald Eagle was once again eating his fish with the Golden watching and complaining. As we got closer the Bald grabbed the fish and flew into a tree, we was able to drive past and walk back to get a better view, but honestly, unless you have 100% perfect conditions, iPhone pics are crap.

After a few minutes of standing close to the Bald’s tree, he had enough and took off with the fish further down the road. The Golden was still in the area and still cussing up a storm.

Not the best pics, but they are the best one’s we have of this event…

Oh, there is also two cat pictures cause why not right?

 

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The Happenings & Random Pictures

Posted on Saturday April 5th, 2014 by | 1 comment

It has been overcast with some wind today, but felt pretty nice….even if we didn’t take advantage of it….lol Planning on doing so tomorrow, need to break in my new hiking boots. =)

Coast Guard Cutter with the mountain background from earlier last week

Coast Guard Cutter with the mountain background from earlier last week

I did get some small things done off of my to do list today, so that was something. We got a walking jacket for the cats. We wanted got it for Drew first because he is the skinniest of the two so we knew it would fit him. Then we would try it on Sakura, so we know what size to order hers (it’ll be purple). He seemed to do ok outside, nervous, but excited….keep purring and looking towards hubby to make sure that he was still there. Now her, she didn’t care for it all….but when she was a kitten she got out for about 22hrs and was never happy with the outside or people since. Use to growl at them out the window at our house.

She isn't liking it very well at all. =("

She isn’t liking it very well at all. =(“

Drew in his walking jacket eating the grass.

Drew in his walking jacket eating the grass.

I spent Friday trying to contact a consignment store and the third party delivery service so we can empty our storage of our beloved bedroom set, dinning room set, living room table set. We really don’t want to give up our beloved king storage bed set, but why pay for it in storage if we aren’t going to use it for the next 10yrs? That is more then it is worth. =(

Beautiful Morning

Beautiful Morning

In process of phone calls, I looked down and saw that I was missing one of my accent diamonds on my wedding band part of my wedding/engagement ring set (I have them welded together). So not cool! =( I just had the prongs checked just over 2yrs ago, but this is not uncommon. Lucky I have my jewelry insured, so if there is any costs it is covered. And I have a jeweler that we totally trust. They are very reasonable and take very good care of us. We’ve gotten nearly all of my jewelry from them and they do my appraisals. The negative is that I had to ship my ring out to them since they are in Indiana. But it is worth it. They should get it Monday and hopefully, I’ll have it back by the end of next week. The other thing that drives me nuts is that I would have no ring on my finger, well, I solved that. Hubby gave me the blue topaz ring I wanted for our 10th, so I put that where my wedding/engagement ring goes. That is a HUGE help…..other wise I would lose it, not having something there.

Picked up a TV for the bedroom last week, now need to get another apple tv and figure out how we are going to set it up. Our rv is a 2002, so it was made with square box tvs in mind. But no matter what, it is one step closer where we can use our bed for cuddling late at night in front of the tv. We don’t like to spend that much time in bed, it actually hurts our bodies, but we miss the cuddling on our movie nights. So I’m looking forward to us getting it set up, once we figure it out. Friday night over the last few years have become our movie night after we watch Real Time with Bill Mahr.

Out birding a few weeks ago

Out birding a few weeks ago

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Birds and a bad cat…

Posted on Tuesday April 1st, 2014 by | Comments Off on Birds and a bad cat…

Pauline and I went for a short walk yesterday. We was only gone about 2 hours and walked 2.15 miles which isn’t much at all.

We also got a new cat harness. MetPet Walking Jacket I think is what it is called. Pauline will have to chat about that.

He did really good. He was tense, but enjoying the grass and sun and even ate a few small flowers. He purred some, but would stop suddenly and look over the big wide world. He also made sure I was nearby at all times. He took a few steps away, but not too many. We would have stayed out longer, but a 5 or 6 cars suddenly went by all at once and I didn’t want to get him too stressed.

The next step is to resize it for Sakura and find out of we need a Med or Large for her, but it will be purple.

The Weather has been amazing!

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Last Monday Today!

Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2014 by | 1 comment

Pauline and I went birding Monday, while the weather was still amazing when we saw the forecast was calling for a week plus of rain and wind, we knew we had to get outside while we still could.

It was sunny with a slight wind and low 50’s so we grabbed the camera and binoculars and ended up doing 4 miles in about 3.5 hours. It’s amazing how far you will not go when you stop and stare at birds.

We walked mostly in the forested trails where it was peaceful, but not too birding friendly. The few birds we see move too fast to get a decent look at.

However we did get some good pics of a Bald Eagle as well as 2 new birds for our list, the Red-breasted Merganser and the Ruby-crowned Kinglet. The Kinglet was a bear to get a decent shot of, and the only reason I got these two pics was due to taking about 50 pics of blurred tree’s as it jumped from one spot to another and then another…

We have walked a lot of beach trails since we been here, that it has been a few months since we walked in the woods. Again, so peaceful. Could use more birds. Saw a few deer. A salamander. Heard some tree frogs and a few birds we never saw, even when it sounded like they was 10′ from us.

This week was suppose to be a nasty mess, but so far, we’ve had little rain, some winds, but much more sun then we expected. It still says this week is going to be a bad one weather wise, but at least we got this good weather.

We was going to go to Whidbey Island to meet some people we are going to work with this Summer, I just forgot to set it up, and when I thought about setting something up, I was never near my Mac to send a email, so that will need to be doe next week.

We are expecting neighbors this weekend. We finally was forced to give up our perfect water view and park like everyone else, in your own limited parking pad. We moved Ackbar yesterday and spread about 10 bucket loads of new gravel on both of these pads since they had some major low points with too many ponds. It took us about 3 hours to get it, but even I am impressed how well it turned out. Much better then expected.

Got our new MiFi today. Still having issues. Need to park facing East and not West. Miss facing South. Need another 10′ worth of sewer hose to be able to park with the hose going under the RV to the other side. Not happy about that. But we gotta do what we gotta do.

Feeling lucky to have had such a great view and appreciating it much more now that I no longer have it… Until next Fall.

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Just updating

Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2014 by | Comments Off on Just updating

We are set to leave Fort Flagler at the end of April which is just 4 weeks or so away, which seems odd, it still is like we just arrived.

We went to Everett yesterday to visit our friends, and had a great time as always. The weather could have been warmer, but other then that it was great. We took the Pt Towsend ferry and drove to the Southern end  of the island to ferry to Mukilteo. We wanted to see what to expect for the Summer.

On the way home we drove down to the Edmonds/Kingston ferry which was about $0.35 cheaper then the other 2 ferries combined and made the trip home about 15 mins shorter. Not much to matter regarding which we way we go. Of course in a month we will be just 1 ferry away.

Last week was pretty crappy regarding the weather, we had winds over 35+mph so the RV was rocking back and forth. So far this week it looks like it will be decent.

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