Okay, so this morning I tried to sleep in... After all, I was up half of the night giving tylenol to Jake, the poor kid. Behind our house is a conservation area; which in Florida that translates to swamp. Down here in Florida they rename things to not make them seem so bad. At the kids school a portable is a "learning cottage" some people try to pass off cockroaches as "palmetto bugs". Thankfully, those are not a concern to us.
For the most part, I like our swamp. We do not have any neighbors behind us and it is pretty to look at. This morning however, some fool bird was squawking his head off and keeping me from sleeping in. We have an unusual assortment of birds, anything from cardinals to eagles. We have these extremely tall white birds that walk around, I imagine those are the ones making the awful racket outside my window.
We do have an assortment of animals back there. There are alligators, wild boars, possums and even wolves. One day I happened to look out the back thru the kitchen window and a wolf was in my back yard. The animal control officer explained the wolf was probably rabid from the way it was behaving. Nice.... No, he didn't catch the wolf, but we didn't see it again. Do we ever go in our backyard, no way. We thought about having it fenced but Jake is allergic to the grass here in Florida so we wouldn't be back there anyway. Don't get me started on the grass here...
Luckily we have a nice sized driveway and we are always out front. The kids are always on their bikes or scooters, hitting balls or playing catch...
For the most part, I like our swamp. We do not have any neighbors behind us and it is pretty to look at. This morning however, some fool bird was squawking his head off and keeping me from sleeping in. We have an unusual assortment of birds, anything from cardinals to eagles. We have these extremely tall white birds that walk around, I imagine those are the ones making the awful racket outside my window.
We do have an assortment of animals back there. There are alligators, wild boars, possums and even wolves. One day I happened to look out the back thru the kitchen window and a wolf was in my back yard. The animal control officer explained the wolf was probably rabid from the way it was behaving. Nice.... No, he didn't catch the wolf, but we didn't see it again. Do we ever go in our backyard, no way. We thought about having it fenced but Jake is allergic to the grass here in Florida so we wouldn't be back there anyway. Don't get me started on the grass here...
Luckily we have a nice sized driveway and we are always out front. The kids are always on their bikes or scooters, hitting balls or playing catch...
I will add a picture of the swamp. In the winter it is not as full and as green as it is during the summer. I think it is much prettier in the summer.
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