It's a squirrels life

The squirrels have found us and it didn't take them long to figure out the feeder! They have to climb down, sit on the little ledge and then open the top of the box to access the seeds.


This little grey one comes every morning around 7am for breakfast. He's quite shy and if we're in the back yard he'll wait for us to go inside and then sprints down the fence to the feeder. He's wary and eats his seeds while sitting on the fence so he can keep a look out. He's up and down to the feeder every 30seconds, but he seems to like being able to see everything.

This fella comes in the afternoons and stays for about an hour - soon he will break the little sitting ledge. He doesn't seem to care what else is going on, as long as he has some seeds he's happy! He takes no precautions like the smaller grey one, and just hangs out gorging! :)

Some afternoon excerise maybe? A few pull ups to keep in shape?

And a drink afterwards. The pool is salt water so he would have been even thirster after his couple of sips but he doesn't seem to care.

Barbies

Luckily for us, Texans LOVE bar-be-cue. In California, the season would begin usually Memorial Day weekend. Here, it has already begun! :) Over the weekend we went to our neighbours place for a barbie and it was just lovely. Hamburgers, hot dogs, beans, devilled eggs and iced tea. What more you can you want? (Well, beer or wine but that's another story).

In the spirit of the season, we have a new grill aptly named the "Big Green Egg". It's a grill and smoker all in one and we can even bake on it apparently! Our smoker didn't make the journey to Texas and as those lucky enough to have tasted them, MM does a mean rack of ribs on the smoker.

We will keep our Weber (in the background). It's a great barbie and we have the rotisserie attachment that comes in very handy.
And here is our first Big Green Egg meal -

Veal chops with asparagus, fingerling potatoes and a La Crema Chardonnay. mmmm - finger licking good!

Spring has sprung!

Thank you to Zoe who helped with the planting. Just waiting on the blue bonnets to show themselves!

From flat to FABULOUS!

You know you're in Texas when commercials for 'Bumpits' are on TV and it's not a joke.

https://www.bumpits.com/

Be very scared:



I so want full volumized hair! :)