sweet rocks

so i have some ants on my deck. i'm okay with that as long as they stay on the deck in manageable numbers. if things change, i'm ready to take some action. mona helen has informed me, that as well as warding off evil spirits, sage is particularly distasteful to ants. but for now, they have not shown a desire to enter my prime territory.

in fact, they've been helpful so far. they seem to be contented cleaning up the odd mess that has besmirched my deck. a dead bug here and a drop of stray hummingbird food there. yesterday i found them chowing on this particularly well-formed drop on the railing. it was quite fascinating. you can actually see their normally brown little abdomens filling up with the red liquid. i get the hummingbird food at the pet store and it's red.

this looks like a substantial sweet rock (reference from the animated movie the ant bully) for such small creatures, but they made short work of it as well as other sweet splashes.

at this point they are all but gone from this particular spot, leaving only a few scouts to send back news if another sweet rock should rain from the skies.

to see a larger view, click on the pics.

i got it

ya need the sound, okay?

cute pooper

tippy pooped. even when they poop, hummingbirds are cute.

tippy

well, this is tippy.

yes, you see, i have a resident hummingbird. he chases off any other hummingbird that tries to feed from my feeders. and he sits in the tree outside my deck all day and sings. i know his little voice.

luckily, i was able to filter out almost all the other noise in the soundtrack (cuz i'm clever like that) so you can get an idea of what he sounds like. his voice is decidedly bigger than he is.

i take lots of pictures of him when i'm sitting on my deck. he's very cute. sometimes he does a tiny little hummingbird poop.

isn't he just the cutest.