Carol's Pond

Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch home of Carol's Pond January 21, 2021 I must be real difficult to live with because all of my pets have moved out!!! Good riddance. But all of the Parkinson's creatures are gone and that is great. But there are some new seasonal residents on Carol's Pond, Bufflehead ducks, I think. They are pretty and they cruise around like they are on patrol. There are about 18 to 24 of them and I think there are 2 mallard hens with them. I would like to see them stick around all year. Whitey, the Great White Egret stopped in for breakfast. I had not seen him for several weeks and I figured he had moved farther south. Some hawks have started showing up too. January 11, I was supposed to have cataract surgery in Tyler, TX. Tyler is about 70 to 75 miles from me, so Lorna Bailey and I went to Tyler on Sunday night. It was snowing hard and people in southeast TX have no idea how to drive in it. Many of them insisted on driving in the left lan...

Carol's Dragon Fly Ranch home of Carol's Pond January 2, 2021 To get to the blog: carolspond.blogspot.com And once again, I have some new 'roommates', compliments of Parkinson's. The goat, the poodle and the one claw lobster and the cat have moved out. Good riddance. But in their place I sometimes have a pig that goes scooting across the ceiling or sometimes a wolf. The wolf is crouched down like it is stalking something. What I find weird, is that the ones that move, move from north to south or left to right. When I still lived in St. Louis, I went to the Jefferson Barracks VA hospital. The Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is also on that property. There are more than 188,000 graves at this site. While on the property, I have seen deer, a lot of ground hogs and one morning a coyote stalking his prey. I wanted to stop and watch but some jerk was right on my bumper. I should have locked up the brakes. Since my last update, I had a Covid scare...