Greetings…

We’re still not back to normal as far as newsletter mailings. I can
promise you that the tech department has been working very hard to
get Gophercentral’s newsletters out. I realize a huge portion of
my regular readers may not even get today’s issue and based on one
“potty-mouthed” person, some may be getting this even though they
don’t want to ever lay eyes on it. Please take a few minutes to
unsubscribe if you don’t want to receive Anything Goes and if you
have any problems unsubscribing, let me know and I’ll help you out…

Calling me names serves no purpose other than wasting time, yours and
mine. I take that back, it doesn’t waste my time. It hones my “comeback”
skills…

Although we are having a bit of a warm front move through Arizona the next
few days, the weather has been great and now the payback for going through
Hell all summer is finally paying off…

You can see “life” surfacing all over the place. People are outside,
streets that were empty all Summer now have kids riding their bikes.

Nurseries are packed with people, (myself included), buying flowers that
don’t tolerate heat. For the next six or seven months, our roses will have
blooms three times the size they are during the Summer…

I bought tons of Petunias and planted them yesterday. I also bought a few
replacement Hibiscus for the ones that fried during the Summer. I found
the prettiest Rose tree that has lavender roses, and one with yellow and
pink roses…

Although Moosie hasn’t dug up flowers in over a year, I still hold my
breath everytime she goes near the flower pit to sniff them. I didn’t put
the small fencing around it like I usually do because she takes one or two
of them out of the flower put when she is “mad” at us for whatever reason
pops in her head. She doesn’t chew them, she takes them and drops them in
the yard to show us who is boss I guess. She won’t be able to drop the
fences in the yard for the next month because the yard was seeded with
Winter grass last week. She and Ginger are NOT happy to have their yard
fenced. They walk up to the fence and just stare pathetically. I wish
I could explain that we winter seed for THEM, so they will have grass
year around!

She’s really loving the “I can open the patio screen door” bit and does it
just to do it now. Sometimes she comes in, sometimes she just opens it and
looks at me, for applause I guess. Sure I could lock it and save myself the
trouble of getting up every few minutes to close the door, but she’s having
fun and I figure I prevent her from grabbing some fencing by indulging her…

At night, I do lock it to make sure nothing “gets in”. I should have done
that yesterday morning. She went outside and of course, opened the screen.
I was doing something and didn’t go right over to close the door. She came
in with Ginger and went to take a nap. A few minutes later, I heard “something”
and couldn’t tell what it was. I listened again and asked Flyboy if he heard
anything. He didn’t…then he did…

In my family room was a baby Woodpecker, hopping around in my plants! You could
tell it had just learned how to fly because it could barely get airborn and
kept hopping around the family room…

UH-OH, if the poochies heard it, this could be a disaster, for both the bird
AND my house! Flyboy and I went to play “Woodpecker round-up” with Frick and
Frack sleeping in the bedroom and totally clueless…

It half hopped, half flew up to a shelf where I have a giant stuffed Lion,
(jungle motif ya know).It stayed there a few minutes until Flyboy approached
it, and scared it down. We then got behind it and guided it back out through
the patio door and off he went, hopping along, then flying away…

It beats having a Scorpion or worse coming in for a visit…

I’m not updating the blog until I’m sure everything is back to normal. SOme
of my regulars that visit the blog have seen the recent pictures I took of
Moosie and Ginger, as well as loads of Hummingbirds I was able to catch on
film flying and feeding on my patio…

If you haven’t seen the pictures and would like to, just click on the link
below for the blog. You don’t have to register to view the blogs… 

Enjoy the pictures!

Ginger and Coco aka “Moose”…

Standing at the door because  they’ re too spoiled to use the dog door since Moosie learned how to open the screen door…

Pups enjoying their Frosty Paws frozen treats…

Various shots of all the Hummingbirds that spend the day around our yard,  last count was 13 that we know of…

Fast little buggers!!!