For Odie

 August 2013. Wally Gator came to visit. I was mowing. He was not impressed with the tractor.

When pressed, he went around the oak tree.

Hubby decided to lasso him.

And we took him back across the street to his bayou home.

He was not thankful.. ;-)

We're glad he didn't show up for the reunion. No telling what the little kids would have thought. 

There you have it, Odie :)  Wally Gators have round noses. Crocs have pointed noses. :-D 

You all be safe and God bless.

September

The year is almost three-fourths over. Haven't been posting a lot. Haven't done anything I wanted to share, really.
Been doing a lot of fishing, but not a lot of catching. This new header, that's a little fishing buddy we encountered Saturday when we were fishing. He was about two feet long, maybe three. He was very interested in what we were doing.

We've had a little break in the heat, but not so much rain lately.

I am very sad for my country right now. Things are worse than they were in the 60s. I keep praying that we won't have martial law; but right now it just scares me.

I've been praying for California, Oregon and Washington, too. Drought, forest fires, not good.

I hope you are all well. Take care and God bless. ♥

So. The new kid on the block.

You'd think with digs like these, (s)he'd stay put.



And certainly you wouldn't expect him to cross this road 2 times...



We get a lot of traffic at times. This road connects a major expressway, with another highway. One on each side of us. Big rigs usually go down the highway at a pretty good clip for a rural road.
It's in the process of being repaved, but they are taking their time.

But the new kid wanted to visit I guess, because this is what we saw when we were mowing a couple of days ago.




We chased him across the road into this culvert.



And he came back again.

(Okay, uploaded to YouTube...)


So, to make our point, hubby managed to rope him.



And we dragged him back to where he belonged.

He was not amused.



Don't know what he thought he was going to find in our pasture, but hopefully we made our point and have seen the last of him.


You all have a great day. Take care. ♥

Update on my last post

I found a video editor that let me take snapshots of the video!
Here is the Wallygator we saw. :o)

Hope this helps!
Have a blessed evening and a blessed Sunday! ♥

I meant to post this yesterday

But we were both tired, so I didn't.
Saw this little fellow sunning himself on the road as we turned for home.
We stopped, he backed up.
Sorry for the video quality. All I had was my phone and we were in a moving truck.
Then I couldn't see to focus!

If you look in the upper left corner of the rear view mirror, you can just see a dark line. Then again in the 'arms' of the mirror, and finally, I sort of managed to focus on what I want you to see.

Ignore the obvious stick, haha, though 'Cajun Wally' is posing just above the stick.

Happy Friday to you all! ♥

We've been fishing!

It is blowing like crazy today! Someone is going to find a nice blue bucket with a grey handle because the wind blew ours into the creek. Which empties into Slocum Creek - called, interestingly enough - Alligator Gut creek on Google maps.
Which empties into the Neuse River, though given the direction the wind is blowing today, it will probably end up in the North branch of Slocum Creek.
Usually the place we fish is protected from wind. But not today. We lost some hooks too when hubby opened the tackle box and the wind blew the packages out of it. ;)
We've been fishing a little Thursday, Friday and today. In the mornings. An hour or two. The first day he was really tired, but he's been catching the best keepers. Not a lot. Most of the blue gill are full of eggs, so we throw them back; but he caught one male yesterday that was probably 3/4 pound. Great fish!
We're freezing them until we have enough for a fry.
Today he felt good enough to clean the fish himself. Which is good because I can't filet to save my life and we end up with little mangled bits of fish.
No Wally today, but a Resource officer came by (yesterday and today, strangely; the one yesterday asked to see our licenses. ;) ) and asked us if we'd seen an alligator. Turns out they weren't asking us about Wally, but about Wally's GRANDPA. haha.
The officer today said the one they're watching for is about 12 FEET LONG! And he likes our little branch of water, too, because he can swim through the tunnel under the road up towards the pond where there is often a beaver dam.
Nope. We've definitely not seen that one, and frankly, I'd rather see Wally. ;)
Happy Saturday to you all! Stay safe and God Bless. ♥

Weekend

So since it's been cooler, cooler being low 90s instead of 100s, we went fishing yesterday and today. You remember the alligator I told you about here, we hadn't seen him since then, but yesterday and today we saw him both days.

Well, yesterday he attacked the hubby's bobber and got an arm tangled in the fishing line. It let us get a good look at him, and his teeth, from the safety of that little pier we fish on. Turns out the hook was only caught on a scale or something because between the two of them, the gator swam off and my hubby got hook, line, and bobber back safely.

But, we were both so surprised, neither of us thought to take pictures. Today, he was there again. And while he didn't attack the bobber, he did definitely show an interest in it being in his territory.

And I did take a couple pics, but all I had was my phone, so I'm sorry for the quality of the pics. It was really gray out, so I used picasa to make the pictures a little clearer.

It poured shortly after I took the pictures, which is why they were so dark.
And naturally, I've named him Wally. ;)

We think the reason he particularly likes my husband's rig is the green/yellow bobber that rattles. My husband is using a 6 foot Ugly Stick, Medium Light Action. And no, I don't know for certain it's a he, but that's what I'm calling him. ;)

We only caught 2 keepers yesterday, fish wise, haha, but we fried them up with the fish we had frozen over the last month and it made a tasty meal for 3 with some leftovers for today or tomorrow. Today we only caught one keeper - with lots of little ones - so we let him go to catch again another day.

Hope you all have a wonderful, blessed week! :)