Yesterday morning I opened the blinds only to discover that a new family has moved in with me. Well, not actually into the house but, they found their home right outside my patio door.<\/p>\n
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I had not invited them to move in but, since she is expecting soon, they felt obligated to find a proper place quickly and decided on my back patio as their new home.<\/p>\n
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Because I have squirrels, I do not put live plants in my planters. My squirrels are life long residents and they love to eat the flowers from the pots I used to carefully plant in. Now, as I have become wiser, and since I love having the squirrels play in my yard, I simply use artificial flowers and change them during each major season. I keep the bird bath and a little container on the porch full of fresh water so they have enough to drink from. Yes, my squirrels love living in the trees in my yard. I even had a white squirrel once.<\/p>\n
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The new family that moved in is a family of birds, nesting in one of my planters. They are busily adding straw and other small pieces of material deep inside the deep planter.<\/p>\n
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Yes, they will soon have little mouths to feed and will need a safe place to keep their family. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see the babies.<\/p>\n
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I do have one problem, though. I have a neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cat that LOVES to hang out on my back porch. She, almost daily, meets me on the back porch after work for a few minutes of petting and stays there talking to me while I cook supper.<\/p>\n
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Now that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a problem.<\/p>\n
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This cat is a natural born hunter and chases the squirrels up the tree all the time.<\/p>\n
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I suspect she will think of the little birds as something to pounce on as well.<\/p>\n
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What do I do?<\/p>\n
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I think I will revert my time with the cat to the front porch.<\/p>\n
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I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t move the bird nester so I must move the cat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6IF I can\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and let nature take its course.<\/p>\n
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Ah, the things we do for family.<\/p>\n
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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you enjoy your family, whoever they may be, to the fullest and do all you can to help them coexist in a peaceful environment.<\/p>\n \n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday morning I opened the blinds only to discover that a new family has moved in with me. Well, not actually into the house but, they found their home right outside my patio door. I had not invited them to move in but, since she is expecting soon, they felt obligated to find a proper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,25,22,16,27,23,18,4,3,31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blended-families","category-familyfriends-gatherings","category-friendship","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-nature-events","category-parenting-families","category-relationships-marriage","category-relationships-singles","category-releationships-general","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}