feline fanatic

They are pretty amazing birds. In my teens, my family lived in Florida on a canal. My dad would fish off the seawall there. Mostly what he caught were "junk" fish. Too bony for eating or those catfish with the big venomous spikes on their fins. Well a Great blue heron decided to hang out on our seawall when my dad fished. I think other fisherman fed him because he hung out eyeing my dad like he was waiting for a handout. My dad caught one of those bony fish and instead of throwing it back tossed it to the heron. The heron immediately walked over to that flopping fish, impaled it on his beak to kill it that swallowed it down. That heron hung out with us until we moved. I bet he stayed when the next owners came hoping they had a fisherman too!

Then when I was looking for inspiration for quilting this, I found a blog posting from a gal who did AMAZING thread painting and did a whole series of GBH. She showed one to her friend who was less than enthusiastic about the subject matter. Turned out her friend had a koi pond and some GBH discovered it and came back every day to the Koi buffet until he had decimated her pond.