Does she, or doesn't she?

I've been debating; trying to figure out which image[s] to use for my Watery and Outdoor Wednesday post. Should I post the image I have from underneath Bob Hall Pier on the North Padre Island, or should I share the Cooper's Hawk cleaning itself after it chowed down with its prey? There is a place that we love going to see all the birds in and around Port Aransas [as you know by now]. I am thinking that I'll put up the pier for Watery Wednesday and then make another post of the hawk in a small puddle over on Mustang Island with my Camera Critters post on Saturday. On a side note, this past Sunday morning, early, our resident neighborhood Swainson's hawk reappeared in his favorite tree once again...he was busy eating something!!! What's funny...but, really not funny...just an observation more or less; the same tree is used profusely by the black birds; the grackles. Tons of them at one time perch there and sing, squawk, fly in and fly out...continually all day long and into the hours just before sunset. But, when the hawk appears, the hawk is the only one in the huge tree. The grackles abandon all property rights.

I share Bob Hall Pier. At least the under side of it as I walked along the shore.......

Okay, so if you'd like to see the many snapshots I took of the hawk over in Port "A", come back on Saturday.
...and here is a 'teaser' for Saturday---






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1. The Hodgepodge falls on the last day of February this year, a leap year. How will you spend that extra day? Probably cleaning...been Spring Cleaning one room at a time for the past several days.

2. What has recently required a leap of faith on your part? Oh my gosh, a leap of faith could just about cover anything from experimenting with a new jogging routine to tasting a new flavored ice cream. To define the "leap" would be all personal and for so many reasons. If I get down to the nitty gritty of things, my biggest leap of faith would be to marry Bud...I did, and I'd say it's working out well. -44 years this May. But the most recent would be to finally discontinue our cable TV --we've had cable since the 1972, to be exact, and I thought I really could not do without...but it's been over a month now, or close, and I don't miss it at all!!

3. We're one week into the season of Lent...are you marking these 40 days in some way? Giving something up or adding something extra to normal life? How's it going so far? I haven't observed Lent [the action of giving up something] since well...since raising our kids.

4. When was the last time you sat beside a fire? It's been years. For the past two decades we've lived in the desert and now in the warm, balmy sub-tropics to keep our body heated. Oh wait a minute, I forgot, we DID have a fire in the fireplace on the eve of the Millennium [that's when we lived in AZ] where we ate our dinner at midnight to see the new century come into existence.

5. Surf and Turf is on the menu. Do you order as is or do you ask for just the surf (lobster), just the turf (steak), or a menu so you can select another option? Well, around here, surf and turf doesn't have lobster...oh it does, but you can also order either shrimp or crab cakes along with your steak. I'll always take shrimp and steak on my surf/turf!!! Always. I'm not too crazy over lobster.

6. If you could have any television program back, not in reruns but in new episodes, what program would you choose? I could really go for another batch of new "Mystery Science Theater" --where they showed B movies and had the two 'characters' Servo and Crow in the audience giving snide commentary on the movie's scripts! They were just too funny, which made the program worth watching. So I could laugh!!! There are enough 'stupid' movies around to keep this program going forever. AND another one....long long long ago, there was a situation comedy of the "old West". The tv program was called BEST OF THE WEST. It was quite funny. Especially one character. His name was "Frog". The program has quick wit, and spoofed the westerns. Very funny as I recall. In fact, the one line that Bud and I cracked up over still falls into our conversations quite often. The new town marshall asked our 'favorite' character what his name was...he replied Frog...and then added "guess that's why they call me Frog". You had to be there. Doesn't sound so funny as I type it...but it was. The show only lasted a year or two, but it made an impact on us. Wish it would come back...at least on DVD. I'd buy it just for the laughs. I know you said "No Reruns" but new episodes...well, Tracey Walter is still around and I'm sure he could pull off the character...only if possible, a SENILE "Frog" now in his golden years in the west? Ya, sure, I could see that happenin'.



7. They say an elephant never forgets. These days would you say your memory is more like an elephant or a gnat? For the most part, like an elephant. Except for a few non-important things I sometimes forget ---like, making a grocery list and forgetting to take it with me when I go to the store. Or a name to put to a face. I can remember the face, but oftentimes I forget the name. That's about it. Now, I forget...what was your question? Oh ya, elephant. Hands down [hands down on the gnat...swat him good! Pesky little boogers.]

8. Insert your own random thought here. I have also posted directly below this issue on my blog THOUGHTS ABOUT LEAP YEAR. Today, I'm Kate Winslet's Twin...wonder just who your celebrity twin is? Well, then.... click here





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character FROG played by Tracey Walter. image borrowed from IMDB
his film bio here
BEST OF THE WEST info here