June through August has been a whirlwind between sits and family time. It was lovely to pop back north to our daughter’s summer home in Vermont for a few days, and spend on hour in the sun picking blueberries.
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Wow! These look amazing 
I find joy in gardening too and then cooking with them. We don’t have a large space to do that in our deck/yard, but we have a community nearby that allows us to plant a few things and share with everyone else.
What I do have the space to do is plant other plants in pots and wildflowers/natives to help the 
this brought me joy today:
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@Angela_L so glad to hear your neighbor and her pup are safe and sound!
She’s so fortunate to have a great community around her 
but I bet you feel the same as well.
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@ExploreDreamDiscover Another little family, so adorable! 
Thank you for helping them
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Thank you @wendy_chicago I absolutely agree, it’s just what you do when people need help and she would do the same in return.
She will be out of her home for 6 months or more but fortunately a small apartment, just 5 mins away, became vacant and she now has a temp home with her beloved puppy near to her home, garden and close community … endless cups of tea find their way to her during the day as she still has no power but the garden is her comfort and joy.
Thank you again for your kind words.
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It’s in the Midway area! Let’s get tea sometime!
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Yes please!
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Aw @ExploreDreamDiscover they are adorable! Thank you so much for fostering them. How many kitties have you helped save now? Over 100 it seems! You are amazing!
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What amazing spirit this little blind dog has. Often, pets can inspire us as humans, I find.
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@Julie_A . LOL, I’m new at this.
This is my second foster family. First mom had 4 kittens . This mom has 2.
But I am going to keep a tally.
I plan to foster when I’m not traveling with THS.
The resuce group is Rescue Pets Movement in Houston, Texas I like their system of getting homeless pets out of Houston and bringing them to states where there are homes available.
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Not just today but for a few weeks now we have had a colony of Bee Eaters really close to our house. Despite their distasteful eating habits (I love bees) they are a delight with their exotic, tropical like plumage, constant soft twittering and aerial displays. I’ll really miss them when we leave for UK, or they leave for Africa, whichever comes first.
© Daniel Pettersson
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We have them in our garden too @Saltrams - hubby is an ex-beekeeper so he loathes them but my, they are beautiful. Where are you in the world?
Gosh, they really are spectacularly beautiful!
@Cuttlefish Do they also eat the asian hornets per chance, which are so problematic and also a threat to bees?
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This amazing thing happened in our garden today! He’s at least 100feet up and it was a feat just to watch (and hold the puppy from under the falling coconuts). The only new “pet” to join us today was a mini cobra…eeeek…#notsuchjoy
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I’ve asked the oracle @Therese and he doesn’t know the answer unfortunately. Let’s hope they do!
@Saltrams so beautiful!. I like to birdwatch when I travel.
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We’re just south of central Italy, about 50km from Rome. The Bee Eaters are new arrivals, owing to climate change I suppose. We never used to see them & our terrain isn’t the sort that bird books say they like but I’m glad they’re here, except for the bee situation of course. Apparently they eat other miscellaneous insects too, so that’s good.
And @Therese, we have noticed there are fewer hornets than usual about at the moment (we only have the “normal” kind here) so maybe.
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eeek indeed, @Cuttlefish! Where are you?
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Southern Province of Sri Lanka 
@Saltrams
Our amazing house boy, Sayuru, dealing with the interloper (it turned out it wasn’t actually dead at this point 
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