Praying Mantis

This afternoon, to distract Daisy from asking me to come outside and be with her and do stuff in the yard, a praying mantis was on my front porch and caught Daisy's attention.  She wanted to sniff it but the praying mantis wasn't too keen on that.  Daisy eventually got around it lightly batting it before losing interest in it once I came outside.  The praying mantis walked off to live another day.

The praying mantis climbed up my bicycle tire in order to get away from Daisy trying to sniff it.

The bicycle frame was too smooth for it to climb any higher.

Daisy lightly patted the praying mantis and knocked it back to the ground.

Here is a 2 minute 31 second video of Daisy and the praying mantis: https://youtu.be/J3Ji08uxdTQ

Skeleton

Today was a rainy, cold and dreary day.  I stayed inside all day.  Partly because Daisy decided to either lay on me or strongly against me.  Until evening we both only got up once to eat and go to the bathroom.  By the end of the day I felt lazy as I hadn't accomplished anything.

Fortunately Buddy the bull didn't break down the fence again today.

Bat

Yesterday on my main Tall Pines Ranch blog I wrote about finding Daisy way over in a far away neighbor's field after I had hayed the field.

A few mornings ago I found in the driveway what I initially thought was a dead mouse.  No... it was a dead bat.  Daisy had found a bat to 'play' with.   Mice.  Birds.  Insects.  Turkeys.  Skunk.  And now a bat.   She is quite the hunter.  Thankfully she 'played' with the bat but did not eat it.

I'm glad I keep Daisy up to date vaccinated against rabies.