Bailey and Friends

Oh dear I missed that post about the alligator getting the dog. I saw what Trish said and was like huh. What!

That is not good at all. A risk of living in Florida?

Keep bailey safe!!!
Hugs
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Yes, apparently so. I don't think you can sit by any pond or lake in FL and consider yourself safe. You know that doggie must have made some horrible sounds and the owner will be hearing those sounds in his head forever, never mind the images that are carved in his brain and the guilt he must feel. I just feel so badly for everybody except the stupid alligator. You can report aggressive alligators and the gaming folks will come and remove them. I don't think I'd want to be here during the warmer months when they're mating and crossing roads.

I'm getting ready to post a couple of new pictures. :)

I left you some comments on the pics Susan.

I like the pictures. LOL

hugs
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Yikes, me not like Pat! :p

I think we need to hire a hit man to wipe Pat out!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant even go back and read what happened to see what you are all talking about. It is giving me the heebeee geeebees just imagaining it.


I have come to the conclusion, I am a city girl at heart. Wild life is nice once in awhile but I dont like living with all the critters. I have had to stare down and challenge coyotes to protect Koko, we can never allow him out in the yard alone. Now we have some non Wisconsin species owl hanging around the house. At first it was fun to hear him WHOOOO WHOOOO but now he does it all the dang time and then the mean old crows come and squack at him and create such a racket circling him until the owl leaves. We have a half of a dead bunny body under our giant blue spruce. Do owls eat bunnies?

I think I would rather experience all of this at a zoo. I dont know how many critters we have had to fish out of the pool and one time I used bird netting for one of my gardens and almost strangled a small red squirrel to death, I had to cut him free and hope he did not bite in the process. That does not include the giant crane that decided to hang out in our pool for a week or the ducks that thought it was a nice swimming hole for them:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Or the deer with all the deer ticks sleeping in our far back yard.:eek::eek::eek: We dont even go back there anymore.

Uggg- nope, give me the city lights:p:p:p:p


Yup, I would not handle alligators well

Addy, are you making the case for that move to the city you've been talking about? :) :) :)

Remember when you and your hubs were there and had gone walking around looking at places. I could just picture that.

I know there will come a day when we don't want to take care of the house and the pool and all the maintenance that goes along with that. Then we'll probably move to a condo or something, where there is someone else to take care of things and we just show up and enjoy. Well that is the thought anyhow.

Susan would probably tell us there is a lot of work that goes into having a smaller place in a complex area too. Still... yea, it does sound like a dream sometimes.

You seem to have an awful of critters around your place I must say and Susan with the alligators and all. Yikes. The birds aren't too bad, but a 5 ft bird, might not be pleasant if they decided you were in their territory. You know like Geese and Swans can do.

Have a good day gals
Sharlene and molly muffin

LOL, Sharlene! And these Sand Hill Cranes practically stand there and put their wings on their hips, as if to say...."Yeah? Where do you think You're goin'?" Add that to the racket they can make when they decide to talk and it's enough to scare the *$#@ out of ya. This is my first experience with condo living and it is nice (so far) having all these people show up to cut the grass and prune the bushes and sweep the sidewalks, etc. We had our first (for us) Homeowners' meeting last week and what made me UNcomfortable was the part when they started talking about the need/or lack of it to raise Homeowner's fees. In a community this large, you're kind of at the mercy of a few people you don't even know. AND, it turns out, one of them we had a run in of sorts at the clubhouse at dinner one night when we sat at the table next to his on a night when he had had way too much to drink and though himself to be very funny and foulmouthed.

On the other hand, today there was a select brunch for people from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia so they could meet one another. They have been having various state groupings throughout the winter. A gentleman sat next to me who lives in the summer at BB. Very nice man who just lost his wife this past December. He lives very near us and I tried to encourage him to call us once he gets back home. There were four tables of 8 of DelMarVans. The clubhouse always has a nice brunch on Sundays.
-Susan

Well, yes that is a problem with homeowners associations. Do they have to issue a vote to raise fees though?

Oh that is really nice that they are proactive about getting people to meet each other from similiar areas, etc. I think that is nice. Especially for anyone new and then you can branch out from there to closer neighbors, etc.

Do they have an area for the dogs to be off leash and run and play there? Maybe that would be a good place to meet other doggie lovers.

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

Well, you can do what my dad did, he became a board member of his association.;);) Well, maybe they dont let you do that if you dont live there full time. :confused::confused::confused:

There is no area for doggies to run. That is called going back home for the summer months. You can be a board member if you don't live here full time-they were trying to recruit Bob....but he does not want THAT job. I don't know if that means you have to come here for the quarterly meetings or not. The condos have their own officers and then the whole association has a Board of Governors. All I know is that we are very fiscally sound and run really well, especially comparatively. This is a golf and country club and I'm thinking maybe next year I'll maybe take some golf lessons. I've played before. I even had some clubs that I gave away just last year. A large part of our dues covers the golf facilities. I had quit because I had progressed as far as I could on my own and needed some lessons. I wasn't improving at all. I'd like to get to know more of the people here and that would be a good way. We'll see.
-Susan