Weekend update May 22

Greeting faithful followers,

It was an on again off again rainy weekend.  We managed to get some inside housework done, mainly still putting the house back in order after the kitchen remodeling.

We have been enjoying nature this weekend despite the rain.

 Early this afternoon we had deer grazing in our yard.

 There are two deer in this picture.  This picture was taken out our living room window.

Later in the afternoon we had another deer or the one of the deer may have come back.  This time in our back yard.  This picture was taken looking out the window in the kitchen by our table.  This deer was eating dandelions.

 Here is the deer again with two birds at the bird feeder.

Here are a pair of American Goldfinches at our bird feeder.  The male is the bright yellow.  The female is the yellowish-brown color.

I'm so pleased to report our lilacs are blooming at the edge of our yard.  Not a lot of blooms but two bushes have flowers.  This is the first year these lilacs have bloomed.  Also, note the bluebird house in the photo.  We have a family of bluebirds living in this house.  Mary spied on the family and knows for sure there are two eggs in the nest and possibly three eggs.  We have seen the parents in our yard.

We bought a watermelon this evening at Mega Foods.  I was checking to make sure it wasn't one of the steriod pumped up watermelons from China and discovered it was grown in Weslaco, Texas.  Edwin lives in Weslaco.  This watermelon could have come from the fruit growing ranch Edwin lives on, although we didn 't see any watermelons growing when we were there last year.  Needless to say, we are happy to report this watermelon was grown right here in the good old U S of A.  Have a good week.