International Faeries Day

                                           (image by XueDuan)

It's International Faeries Day and I almost forgot!  Although...looking around the Internet I found few references to it.  The most informative one at www.faemagazine.com  said that its a day to celebrate the Fae folk and let them know you believe in them.  No mention of how to do this, but I suppose if you believe in Faeries you'll have enough imagination to figure it out...

I just walked out into the forest with a bowl of honey, set it down and said, "Happy Faeries Day, Faeries...I believe in you!"  I just hope Mrs. Rose and the raccoons leave enough for the fae folk, or vice-versa.  I'm really hoping the raccoons don't get it all.  That's the last thing I need, a bunch of rowdy raccoons on a suger rush high!

Good thing there was no one close enough to hear me talking to the Faeries...;-)

A Quotation for Monday (And a Mrs. Rose Update)

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."  John Bunyan

This is Mrs. Rose, (upper part of photo), and one of her babies (she had four, all are doing well); notice how much shorter little one's tail is than her mother's tail.  The bowl is only six inches across and the baby fits completely inside of it with one of her siblings when they want to do so.  Mrs. Rose doesn't even put her front feet in the bowl, just her head.  I took this back at the end of September when (I'm guessing) they were about five or six weeks old.  They come with their mama to eat every night but the babies are very shy of the flash on the camera, so this is the only photo I have taken.  They're quite a bit bigger now! 

I guess, for me, that quote isn't completely accurate because I get so much happiness just from seeing the animals that I feed and knowing that they're all right, that I'm more than repaid.