Jade, the Buff Bellied, and Football

Jade likes her new RV parking spot pretty much. That is if she doesn’t have an encounter with motorhome jacks and shocks and things. But we check on her once in a while and she’ll let us know if she really gets in trouble. She has a real telltale scream if necessary.

And here you can see that she is determined to find the @#%&#  #$% cat that we’re trying to get off the table.
If you look real close at this picture you will see where the Buff Bellied hummingbird was just before I snapped this picture. Pretty cool huh ?? And you won’t see one at your feeder for sure. But as you can tell from this picture that they are quite common down here at the tip of Texas and on into old Mexico.
A word about football if you will? Maybe two.
So if you are inclined to not like football you can stop reading here. At least until the next posting.
First the National Championship game. Me and Wendy (oldest daughter and expert on football) pretty much agree that if the Oregon Ducks and Auburn Tigers played 22 more times this year Oregon would win 19 of them. You might ask yourself how we came up with those numbers? Well, I told you, Wendy and I pretty much agree. Nuff said !!! OK, I’ll elaborate a bit. Oregon didn’t play real well. No excuses really, they just didn’t go through with the game plan and hurry up offense like they had all year. Then they made some mistakes and penalties in real bad places. One of them resulting in a safety and a nine point turnaround. And some bad decisions on 4^th down really hurt. That you can put on coach Chip. Then there is Auburn, I’m not trying to take anything away form Auburn, they won and should have that night. But they certainly weren’t impressive either. The Ducks handled Newton very well. If not for #5 and the offensive line they wouldn’t have been close even given the way Oregon played. Cam aside they just weren’t that good. I saw a couple of their games and more than once they should have been beaten. What I don’t want to hear is how great they were against Alabama. I watched that and Alabama folded and that was it. I mean the Crimson Tide couldn’t find their collective ass with both hands and a flashlight in the second half. That was purely a case of who was worst and that day it was Alabama. So I got that off my chest! And #2 ain’t bad!
For the second word I would only say “go Seahawks”!!!! OK that’s more than another word. Sorry! But since the Seahawks were only 7 and 9 they don’t belong there anyway none of this counts. And it’s just the NFL so who really cares anyway. Maybe they’ll go on strike and we can all lead productive lives this fall. Well, on second thought that might be taking it a little too far………….