It’s finally full Spring here at Colehaus with trees and flowers bursting out all over the place. Some of our flowers are so bright, they’re almost hard to look at. We looked anyway.
You might be thinking, “Gee, they have a lot of Azaleas” . . . and you’d be right! We have a good amount of flowers. It’s just that the Azalea’s are blooming, heavily blooming, right now.
Here’s a spotted Trillium, in bloom. See? We do have other things blooming around here.
Peeky (official name Peekin’ Thru) is back! And she’s our returning raccoon this year. We know it’s her because of her signature ear notch. Here’s a photo of her last summer:
Peeky, a daughter of Peek-a-Boo (who passed last summer) seems to be our only raccoon visitor this year, and we like it this way. While we do not actively feed raccoons, we do have Iams kibble set out during daylight hours only for the neighborhood cats who visit. Scruffy, W, Wally Olly, P, Rusty, Mew Mew and that very aloof black cat whom Mom discovered last weekend may be partially deaf.
Raccoons only come out looking for easy food during daylight hours if A) they are starving/sick or B), if they are nursing young and need nutrition. We’ve been lucky in that all but one of our visiting raccoons since 2012 have been nursing young. Happy, the old, blind, deaf great grandmother raccoon was the only exception. She was a sweetheart who spent cold winter nights in one of our warmed feral shelters, and is most likely, the reason Peeky is here today. We look forward to meeting Peeky’s babies sometime later this month or next!
This pretty viola found a way away from all those boring purple violas struggling to take over a dry strip of flower bed. These go to seed fast and easily and Mom wishes she had five acres to let them do just that.
Lastly, Winston Wally Olly Porkchop doesn’t think that’d be the best use for five acres. Now, plant some catnip and we’ll talk!
We’re continuing to hang in there, and are sad that so many are in a boat similar to ours now. We feel blessed that we both still have jobs; Mom’s just ended seven weeks of hazard pay and Dad’s still working his customer support job from home, but with interviews and hiring at a standstill (at least still in our area), Dad’s not yet found anything better paying that will get and keep us out of the red at the end of every month. Once this is all over, there’ll be a lot of job competition out there. Dad’s more than ready to jump into that pool.
Thanks for visiting us and for reading. We hope you are all doing well and we send each of you our best wishes and thoughts. We will all get through this, together.
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – Three Word Wednesday
2015 – Happy June!
2014 – No post
2013 – No post
2012 – Never Forget, I’m THE cat!
What beautiful flowers and yeah, my eyes needed a break, too, so I’m glad you added some furry friends to your post! – Tom x
What a lovely garden!! Thank you for the update – sending many good thoughts to you all.
Your flowers are so beautiful! The colors spectacular! We know we have raccoons around here but we’ve never seen them. Ours must hide most of the time.
Such pretty flowers you have!
WE like your raccoon too.
We have one that comes to clean up any birdseed left over from the day, but he is nervous and comes after dark.
Wally is mighty handsome 😉
Purrs,Georgia and Julie
The colors are amazing, but I’ve got to say your trillium is my very favorite; hope to have some of my own in the yard for next Spring!
What amazing spring colors – wowza! It is a hard time for all, but you folks have been at it longer, we’re still sending purrs and prayers for the purrfect job for your Dad!
Beautiful blooms. I had no idea there were so many different azaleas. Very cute ginger boy.
It’s almost like life is back to normal. Happy spring!
The flowers are beautiful, and Peeky is adorable! She’s lucky she has you guys. We’re praying for better days for the world, and you.
You have lots of gorgeous flowers in bloom! We think of you often and hope you can stay afloat somehow.
Those flowers are gorgeous, the colors are so bright and so beautiful ! Purrs
The azaleas are beautiful. Ous have finished flowering now, but the clematis and roses have taken over.
Those flowers really are super pretty and Peeky is pretty cute peeking about!
It looks so pretty and peaceful around your house.
whitefizh wavez two ewe wally !!! tell yur naybor… de cole houz crew… ther flowerz iz bee yond awesum !!!!! total lee 🙂 ♥♥
Peeky, is such a cutie. We love the beautiful flowers and the different colors are just so relaxing to look at. Thanks for the share. Have a wonderful rest of your week.
Aww, Peeky is really cute. We’re glad she knows Colehaus is a safe spot for her and her babies to come. Your blooms sure are pretty. Yay for spring! We always keep you in our thoughts. We are thankful you’re employed and hanging in there. Hugs to you all.