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Something for everyone? Hummingbird, buzzard, spoonbill, an egret and a puppy.   As always click the pick for larger pictures.

Sorry I have not been around. You see I am my mother’s care taker as she lives in my home. Her health has not been good for some time now and to get the pictures I post requires travel. Mom simply does not travel well and with the heat I dare not even try to take her to the swamps. I do have a pretty good sized catalogue of pictures so I will try to post more often and give Texpat a much deserved break. I am not fishing for well wishes or sympathy but I do covet prayers if you are so inclined. You couch critters (all of ya) are like a cherished family member that I can visit when I need a break. Thanks.
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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, it is Thursday and the Squawkster has posted some nice pictures, I like the Spoonbill, Buzzard, and well, all of them.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Hummer wars are heating up around here since the days are getting shorter. Those little guys a fierce, defending their feeder. I’ve not been taking enough pictures lately and I try to keep a “throw-down” camera in the old Mule but it is one of those auto focus things and it is hard to get anything except a landscape picture. I was working on the trail yesterday and trying to figure out which direction was the best to proceeded and came up on an absolutely beautiful Orbed Weaver, with a web stretched across the trail. WE have lots of them and I tried to take a picture of one last week but the camera just didn’t cooperate. I’ve got to breakdown and get me a new digital SLR, or resurrect my old 35 MM Yashica. The picture would have been good because about the time I saw the spider, a horsefly flew into the web and the spider nabbed him.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well since yer being so nice and sweet I guess I won’t mention anything about pic #2 being a nice self portrait or anything, ya know, since your being so nice and all.

    We love you too Squawkie Tooter, prayers up for your mom and you guys. There are rough times taking care of family, we did it with Sweetie’s grandfather then later her mom.

  4. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Prayers up for mom, Squawk. Thanks for dropping in when you can.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A pleasant 65 here this morning, high in the low 90’s.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Oh, and prayers for your mom, Squawk.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk

    I always appreciate relief from the bullpen.  Prayers for your mother and you.  Caretakers need some, too.

    Nice camera work.

  8. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I appreciate all of you guys and gal with keys to the executive washroom… except Shannon. Shannon really needs to stick to commenting only. In fact last night around 9pm, this site would pull up and I had my suspicions.

    Squawk prayers for you, your mom, and your family.  I know it’s not easy.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    1951 GMC 350 and 1952 GMC 350 stake bodies

    The ’52 in the right side of this image would mark the last GMC that Indian Motocycles (yes, no “r” is the correct spelling) of Springfield MA would purchase as they were out of business the following year. Founded in 1901 and the stuff of legend until their demise in 1953, Indian made quality and they wanted quality in their truck delivery fleet. Today, the buildings are re-purposed and the museum is gone. I visited the museum 20 years ago and had the pleasure of meeting Esta Mathos, who with her late husband were employees who founded and then ran the museum. Esta was quite the character and she was in her 90s when I first met her and she would hop on and kick start and then ride any bike she had in the museum. Sadly, Esta couldn’t maintain the museum and shortly after I first met her and visited, the museum closed and all but about two dozen of the best of the best Indians were sold. The proceeds were used to help preserve the history in a collection. Sadly, Esta joined her late husband in Oct of 2016 at the age of 101. She was quite the character and she didn’t crap from anybody. You either hated her or loved her and it was the same way for her with you. Great historical photo of a great and legendary brand that lost its fight to changing times. Had they survived another 30 or so years, they likely would be thriving today.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Hamous, you’ve got to learn to keep up…

    A couple who met as two women have shared their dilemma after one transitioned to become male, leaving the other struggling to cope after years of being in a same-sex relationship.

    Andy Arnold and Kate Murray have been together for several years. In 2017, Andy revealed that he identified as a man and would be transitioning.

    While Kate was supportive of his decision, it has since left her struggling to cope since she is inherently homosexual and attracted to women.

    The pair, who are still together and are now engaged, say they are working to ‘navigate’ the issue as a team, told their story on Wednesday to The Washington Post.

    life is really hard,

    But Kate was uncomfortable with the new dynamic.

    ‘It felt like a lie,’ she said, explaining that she felt she could not identity as gay because her partner was now a man.

    She is now frustrated that people assume she is straight because she is dating a man.

  11. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Squawkster ALL the kneemail you need is UP Pahdnah!

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I know how caring for the elderly can be. On the care giver and the care receiver.

    Squawk, you have ALL of my best wishes and prayers to get through this.

    She is blessed to have someone like you caring for her.

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Squawk may you, your mom and the Lovely B-Sue be flooded with peace and tranquility during this difficult season.

  14. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I too thoroughly enjoy the home made wild life photos.  That hummingbird feeder looks just like the ones I have, and the migrating birds are emptying it out daily right now.  It’s a travel day here, so I’m trying to get motivated to get stuff together and move it to the car.  I’m hoping that each of you have a great day, and I’ll report in later.

  15. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Oh, here’s another story about fake conservative Dan Crenshaw fooling Michael Berry and all the others who voted for him.  Berry’s political picks, going back to his hatred of Trump, have not been panning out too well.  Who knows, he may turn out to be a faker too.  https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/08/28/dan-crenshaw-the-principled-conservative-who-wasnt/

    I hope Ted Cruz figures that out and starts keeping his distance.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You have my prayers, SQK.
    I know well where you’re coming from.
    Fay had another fall about a month ago which I haven’t mentioned. Caretaking gets pretty intense some times. I’ve become quite the expert in wound care, among other things.

    But it’s not so bad. It’s all about love.

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ll have you know I haven’t used the keys since I heard all the whining about recent changes to the dashboard.

    I do have a post I need to do in September.

    You’d best wish me luck.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    17 Shannon

    The dashboard was switched back to the old format a long time ago.

  19. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I drove out in a thunderstorm last night because I had to be there for an event. I have joined again the civic organization Greater Inwood Partnership, and we held a Meet the Candidates last night for the 2 City Council positions in our part of town. When I was in this group before, it was for their esplanade beautification projects. There was nothing I liked more than spending Saturday mornings planting knockout roses and watering newly-planted trees. I still enjoy driving past the Antoine Drive esplanades that I worked on back then. And last night, I enjoyed seeing some of my old shovel buddies and volunteers from the White Oak Conference Center Butterfly Garden.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: Washington couple sue Seattle for releasing career violent criminal who savagely beat them
    Who is standing for people like the Richardsons, a couple who were nearly beaten to death by someone let out by Seattle-area law enforcement despite a 25-year rap sheet of violence?
    /SNIP
    The Richardsons were walking around downtown Seattle on the fateful August 24 almost exactly three years ago, waiting for the start of a Seattle Mariners game. Suddenly, they were stalked by 25-year felon Nail Mulazim Muied, who was let out of prison just 24 hours earlier. According to KIRO7, Muied then beat both of them with a baseball bat, shattering James’ jaw and causing internal bleeding in Melanie.

    Now they are suing Seattle and King County for not locking up this demon despite a 25-year rap sheet that included violent offenses. The local media report notes that the lawsuit seeks damages for surgeries and years of rehabilitation. KIRO7 also noted in the report that Muied is known as a mental health threat to local law enforcement, but the lawsuit alleges that this fact was ignored by authorities.

    I hope they bankrupt Seattle. Unless and until the leftists are made to feel real financial (and hopefully physical) pain, this garbage will continue.

  21. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #20 –

    I hope they bankrupt Seattle. Unless and until the leftists are made to feel real financial (and hopefully physical) pain, this garbage will continue.

    Almost sounds like some folks talking about WACO!

  22. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Michael Berry takes shots at the Red Flag initiative every chance he gets, reminding we could have a Lois Lerner or any number of other corrupted left wing hacks over the law to show examples how we cannot trust them. Berry continuously admits he was wrong on Trump (so was I and so do I), and trumps up most every move he makes, including the tariff issue most every single show. Let it go already.

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Squawk, your mother is in good hands, with her loving son taking care of her.

  24. phil Avatar
    phil

    Dump Dan Crenshaw and vote for old man Crenshaw in 2020.

    “if everybody stopped here that saw my place from the river all I’d be doin’ is entertanin.’”

    hahahaha.

    “Why 9 gars?”

    “Why does my head hurt?”

    HAHAHAHAHHA!

     

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh. All this talk about fried chicken sandwiches just provides more evidence that I am an Outsider.

    I’ve never had a fried chicken sandwich and probably never will.

    I like my fried chicken nekkid.

  26. phil Avatar
    phil

    How about a ravioli sandwich?

  27. phil Avatar
    phil

    Probably being examined by using the FIB approved method of smashing them to bits with hammers.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nope.
    Ravioli nekkid, with butter or marinara.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bonecrusher

    I hope they bankrupt Seattle.

    LOL, respectfully speaking, not me. You do know if that happens “we the people” will be tasked to bail their sorry selves out. Worse yet is people will flee that flee ridden place and come to Texas and bring their politickles too. Then other cities like Chicago will follow suit and by default “we the people” will be driven to bankruptcy trying to keep those cesspools open.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A billboard I’d like to see in Chicago/Illinois:

    “Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
    Why keep voting liberal/Democrat/”Progressive”?
    Make it work – vote conservative across the ballot! #CleanSweep”

    Like it’ll work, but if it can make any kind of an inroad…

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Proof positive that rats rule the United States or at the very least California.
    Ya got one story bemoaning rats taking over Los Angeles and the tent cities:

    ‘Rats Have Taken Over the City’: Los Angeles Homeless Crisis Reaches Epidemic Levels

    and another story worrying that man is invading were rats live.

    This rat is foiling developers’ plans to capitalize on a weaker Endangered Species Act

  32. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Put October 24th on your calendars and buy tickets. They are struggling to get this faith-based movie distributed, due to its Christian nature and strong 2nd Amendment support.

    The Reliant

    The movie won awards but the liberal movie industry just doesn’t like it.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    https://youtu.be/CqN7N9-AHXs

  34. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My butter slid off my nekkid ravioli.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You mens woulda been proud of my negotiating skills last night/this morning. Wifey starting to get the itch to go somewhere, just cause it’s holiday weekend. She wanted to go to Galveston for dinner, and just drive around. Somehow I got that down to going to Landry’s local, and a movie. And I would get a ceiling fan put up in the new porch. I amaze myself.

  36. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #35 – Well DONE Sir!

    I45 south will be a freakin ZOO all weekend!

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #35 Ralph: No freeway parking lot and get to knock out a project that will improve quality of life at the house qualifies as a twofer for the win.
    /Doffs fedora in your direction.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Wish I was at Gaido’s right now.

    SAVORY CRABMEAT CHEESECAKE 16
    Texas blue crab, savory ricotta-cream cheese filling, brown-butter almond shortbread crust, finished with a Creole meuniére sauce

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Landry’s crawfish étouffée. Nuff said.

  40. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Squawk,

    Prayers for you, your dear Mom, and your dear wife in this difficult time.

    Spouse and I have been there in caring for my dear Mom after Dad passed away (he required care for some time before he passed).  She lived with us for over a year, and we had help from a dear housekeeper who had worked for them and a nurse friend we met when Dad was ill.   Mom’s condition deteriorated to the point we could no longer manage her care at home.  By Our Lord’s grace a space in the Richmond hospital’s long-term care unit came open, and Mom had a beautiful  room there until she passed four years later.

    Several years later we had a similar situation with spouse’s Mom in Madison who had been a widow for years and had been doing well until one morning she likely had a small stroke in her apartment and mistakenly called us in Richmond instead of her neighbor next door for help.  She left several garbled messages, as I had been out of the house that morning.  When I heard them I immediately called her, and she was able to answer the phone but sounded very disconnected.  I don’t know if she knew who I was.  I told her to call 911 immediately.

    I then called spouse’s brother at work in a small town near Madison and his wife at work in a suburb of Madison.  Fortunately he was in his office, she was in a meeting and so I left a message.  Brother-in-law immediately called Madison for an ambulance from the fire station only a few blocks away from her apartment and then called his in-laws who lived in the same apartment complex who were fortunately home and went right over to his Mom’s.  Then he hit the road to Madison.   Mom recovered slowly and never recalled how she fell ill.  But she could no longer live alone, and spouse’s brother found a long-term care facility for her nearby that had several levels of care.  We in Richmond could not do a whole lot other than call and make the trip to Madison more frequently.   Spouse’s brother and wife had most of the responsibility for her, and fortunately he has a master’s degree in hospital administration.

    Hang in there.  You will know when the time comes that your dear Mom’s condition exceeds what you and yours can appropriately manage.  Suggest researching facilities if you have not already done so.  God bless you all and give you strength to carry on.

  41. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Squawk, what ∆she∆ said.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    What deranged individual came up with something called a fried chicken sandwich ?  I’ve never even heard of it.

    Sidenote:  When I first came up here I was asked about fried chicken and waffles.  I was dumbfounded and they thought it was strange since I’m from the South, or so they believed.  I have to clarify for Yankees that Texas is the Southwest and only tangentially related to the South.  Apparently, it is some strange dish they eat in the Carolinas.

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    One day, around noon, Shannon and I were standing in our mother’s front yard when a local lady stopped in her pickup and started yelling frantically.  She had been delivering Meals on Wheels and said when she got to our grandmother’s front door, there was a strong smell of natural gas.

    We jumped in a truck and raced the three minutes it took to get there.  I ran to the water heater in the kitchen and shut off the pilot light while Shannon threw open doors and windows.  It turned out there was a leak in the old downstairs space heater and the house had filled up with gas.  Our grandmother had advanced into enough dementia she could no longer smell anything.  It had been a big battle previous to this to get her to eat.  I kicked myself for not realizing if she had lost her sense of taste, she had also lost her sense of smell.  Much too dangerous for somebody living in an old house with space heaters.  It was shortly after that I called our aunt and asked her to come down and convince our mother it was time for our grandmother to go to a nursing home.

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Fried chicken sammich doesn’t seem strange to me though I haven’t indulged in the big comparison challenge. Waffles and chicken tho?? That don’t even sound right. And no, never heard of anything like that growing up here.

  45. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Made it to Big D once again.  Hot here too.  Nothing else to report for now.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    They probably eat shrimp and grits, too.

    WTH?

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have to eat enough damn chicken without eating it for breakfast, too.

  48. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Squawk

    I forgot to mention the Visiting Nurse service was very helpful to both my parents while still at home in their decline.  And it gave us some respite.  Might look into that and ask your Mom’s doctor about that.

  49. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #43 Texpat

    What a terrible situation to walk in on.  Bless the Meals on Wheels lady for stopping and bless you and Shannon being at home when she did.  The Lord indeed moves in strange ways….

     

  50. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Apparently, it is some strange dish they eat in the Carolinas.

    It’s a Deep South thing. Used to you’d only see chicken and waffles in soul food restaurants. Now it’s everywhere. There’s even a restaurant in IAH selling them now.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t care if Brazilian ranchers are clearing jungle for pastures.

    More cows, less monkeys, I always say.

  52. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Lyin’ Tank Biden

    But after speaking with more than a dozen military and campaign sources, the Post determined the event “never happened” and that “almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect.”

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wunner if he can still spell that three lettered word – J-O-B-S!

  54. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Biden is a drooling moron and that hasn’t changed in 30 years. That amybody thinks he could possibly be a good POTUS, and by good I mean good for We The People, is disturbing. That upwards of 25%think he could be good is absolutely terrifying.

  55. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Tank responds:

    What is it that I said wrong?”

    Literally EVERYTHING, Joe!

    His family needs to arrange an intervention.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If Joe fails, just look at who’s left.

    https://youtu.be/3uSTOHa4Im4

  57. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I got caught up in a Round Up causes cancer thread, I don’t know what to believe about it but I know my 8 ozs I use every few weeks ain’t gonna kill me. Anyway one hysteric woman claimed her son sprayed a fence line and soon she had three poodles die. This guy’s response killed me-

    Barb Mcclanahan-fletcher I used round up and my unicorn and pink elephant died at the age of 80

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    57
    /dyin’
    🙂

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Unca Shanny has probably breathed in a barrel of Roundup mist.

    So far, so good.

    I guess I should write the number down. 🙂

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “Oprah’s spirit healer [Marianne Williamson] is not going to make it to the next debate, this is a major loss for the DNC… she is the least crazy candidate the Dems have!”

    https://americanactionnews.com/articles/5-marianne-williamson

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    First all Thanks all.

    Ms Adee
    I am considering getting a visiting nurse. If nothing else to be here on those odd days I have to run errands. My Sis in law stands in for me on occasion but coordinating schedules is a pain.

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Used to you’d only see chicken and waffles in soul food restaurants.

    White-a$$ honky crackas appropriatin’ The culture of the downtrodden former slaves.

  63. phil Avatar
    phil

    These weather channel dudes are beyond lathered up  about all the spaghetti models.

    Even funnier with the sound off as their bodies jerk and gyrate like cats in heat on a hot Houston sidewalk with no litter box

    Now it’s time for a fried chicken sandwich since the grass is freshly mowed, edged and swept.

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Full disclosure:

    The father of Fay’s children recently came down with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma at the age of 80.

    He had his share of exposure, but not any more than the rest of us involved in agriculture.

  65. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    White-a$$ honky crackas appropriatin’ The culture of the downtrodden former slaves.

    Just wait until some gluten intolerant pasty hipster starts making the waffles out of that racist colonial cauliflower.

  66. phil Avatar
    phil

    Looks to me like the hairycane is moving due north into open water but the experts are telling me no, it’s moving right towards San Saba via Cut-n- Shoot via Flareeda.

  67. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You chose your spaghetti and going with it? Or was it the purdiest weather gal’s prediction?

  68. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Looks like all of Florida is vulnerable to Dorian that keeps getting stronger.  And a high-pressure area in the Atlantic is keeping it from turning right and going up the coast or even better out to sea.

    Harvey is much too fresh in our memories not to immediately bond with the folks in the area of this storm’s reach.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes. At this point it looks like Fla is going to take a pretty good beating.

  70. phil Avatar
    phil

    You chose your spaghetti and going with it?

    Yes the philopino  model sees due north,

  71. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    At least TWO Florida landfalls in the offing

    SOUND FAMILIAR? *shudder*

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    49 Adee

    The Lord indeed moves in strange ways….

    Indeed, He does.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Philopino?

    Huh.

  74. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    😀

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh yeah.

    https://youtu.be/OtddAfkAeNw

  76. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    In news of the gridiron, Your Fightin’ Texas Aggies are playing like an actual ranked team.

    thatisall

  77. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    There’s a place in Sugar Land Town Center called Jupiter’s Pizza that serves chicken & waffles. I haven’t ordered it, but I’ve taken a bite off one of my kid’s plates.

  78. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Is it too late to cancel the Transgender Explosion? Cuz it simply isn’t working. Maybe as recently as 6-7 years ago, I thought there was something in gender dysphoria that could be cured by surgical means, but I was wrong. It is psychosis, that’s all. At least, the male->female dysphoria is a mental disorder.  Maybe the female->male trans is basically just a tom boy.

    https://spectator.us/trans-activism-vandalizing-womens-shelter-vancouver/

  79. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #75 – Quite the songbird!

  80. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a good rule for those with large jobs…

  81. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We got a request to show one of our vacancies today. Looks like an Indian name. It’s a female. Also a liberal.

    How do I know?

    She/her/hers provided her preferred pronouns at the end of her email.

    I told Hubby that if he didn’t like her he should just start talking about how fabulous the 2nd Amendment is, and do some name dropping – like Rush Limbaugh.

    Frankly, I’d rather not rent to someone like that. She sounds like she’d be a real PITA.

  82. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Night all.  Sweet dreams.

  83. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Tell him to use her non-preferred pronouns ubiquitously.

  84. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #81 – Don’t walk……………RUN!

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