As always, trying to get caught up with my blog… It appears I last posted quarterly photos at the end of 2022… OMG… that was almost 3 years ago…
Here are my favorite photos from ALL OF 2023:
Winter light; poor old Birdie both on & under heating pads [RIP]:
Our brief stint with a “bookcase” fish tank; Birdie & Darwin being nice to each other:
I love my chicken feet socks; the dam in a mid-March snow storm:
My bestie from when I was 6 years old found me on Facebook after I’d been searching for her for YEARS, Birdie going to the vet for her monthly pain shot:
Our first trip to an Airbnb, to Lincolnville, ME. We chose it because it came with 3 happy goats:
A poppy plant I bought myself; a little garden frog who got stuck in my bucket:
I cleaned and organized the tool wall rack in the laundry room off the kitchen; spring flowers:
Birdie enjoying a nap on her heated blanket; spring flowers:
Ipswich River tree; the view from my mom’s deck before a storm:
My hibiscus plants flowered all summer:
We flew to Kansas for my father-in-law’s and his wife’s 83rd birthday party [they had been planning a “BIG 80” party, but COVID put the kybosh on that]:
In August, I spotted a juvenile otter swimming helplessly against the flow beneath the dam for 2 days before calling in IRWA [the Ipswich River Watershed Association] who in turn called in MA DMF [the MA Division of Marine Fisheries]. They tried to net him, but we ended up using a have-a-heart trap. I heard it go “bang” at 10 that night [it was diagonally below our bedroom], and called IRWA, who came right over. We fed the poor little otter some herring left behind by DMF, then released him upriver:
My turtle rescue hobby started to take off during the summer of 2023:
Flicka [dark grey with white blaze], Coconut [mostly white with grey splotch on face], & Pi [white and beige with 3.14 beige spots on her back] [all have since passed & we have not gotten new rats]:
A 2nd trip to the same Airbnb in Lincolnville, ME, in the fall:
Ipswich Illuminated 2023:
Our neighbor’s back yard, a watersnake in the driveway:
I drove by my friends’ house at Halloween and loved their deco; outside our house during the holidays:
