Pat Hardie - Altered Art Studio

Adventures with artquilts, fibres, neckties and 2 very fine flatcoat retrievers - Gypsy & Reo

Friday, March 06, 2009

Catch of the day

Rendez-vous with a Red Head. Of course I mean a parrot, the red-crowned parrot, of which there are several flocks that hang out in Weslaco. Our campground is actually in Mercedes, east of there. No matter, as soon as I got the pamphlet on where in Weslaco to go to see them, I heard them 5 min after getting home one afternoon. They are loud for sure. At 12-13" these birds can be seen flying in masses like clouds and then landing in a tree or two. These fellows were seen in the morning having announced their presence loud and clear, a kind of cleeoo, cleeoo then ahk-ahk-ahk.






The last 'catch of the day' on our last day here in Llano Grande Lake Park was of course to be seen at the dog park. This pond was first conceived as a reservoir for irrigating the orange groves that surround this park. After a petition from the campers, the owner agreed to turn it into a dog park. It is probably the best you can get in that respect. The whippets were not real swimmers although one of them would actually go into the water. Everyone knows each dog by name, but not necessarily the owner's.
Of course Gypsy and Leila gave the whippets a run for their money on ground. Gypsy was surprisingly fast by comparison, but more agile in trapping the ball. When we returned to the camper I hosed them down just in case and then parked them in their X-pens to dry off.
Hitching up the car and trailer went surprisingly well - a record if I were still to be keeping track. Sure hope we can manoeuvre off this cement pad in the morning. I am proposing an angle thereby avoiding the drag on the skids (metal bars that hit the ground first thereby protecting the main frame of the trailer). The concrete bears evidence of our push up the slope to park the trailer 2 weeks ago.
Tomorrow we are off, headed for Vicksburg but of course it is more than one day's journey so who knows where we will land for the night.
Until the next post,





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