tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post5136010517872764876..comments2023-05-02T12:33:58.182+01:00Comments on Perpetually In Transit: Marking time Perpetuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-45764298044171194132013-02-20T12:09:39.969+00:002013-02-20T12:09:39.969+00:00Hello Connie and welcome to my blog. I love the wa...Hello Connie and welcome to my blog. I love the way we follow these links and find new blogs to enjoy. Explore all you like - we all write hoping to be read. :-) I see you're in the northwest USA, so there must be lots of wonderful wildlife out in the countryside. The UK is so small that foxes, under pressure of space and being very adaptable, have colonised urban areas too.<br /><br />I think there must be a lot of us retired mothers and grandmothers busily blogging away. My DH thoroughly approves. He says it costs nothing and keeps me out of mischief. :-) I'll be across to have a look round very soon.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-584014237277519162013-02-19T21:59:06.096+00:002013-02-19T21:59:06.096+00:00Foxes are so beautiful . . . I love watching wildl...Foxes are so beautiful . . . I love watching wildlife, but around our home all we have is squirrels and birds. If you go a couple miles out where the houses are not so close together and there are not 6 foot fences around every backyard, you'll see deer, jack rabbit, and coyotes. I found you in a comment that you left on Patricia's blog . . . A place for everything.....<br />I hope you don't mind me exploring your site. I love surfing the web in search of interesting blogs. Please accept my invitation to come over and visit, and enter my current Give-Away :)<br />I'm a retired wife, mother and grandmother . . . enjoying every day of retirement and having more time for family, friends, and creative interests. I've been a blogger for just over a year now.<br />Have a lovely day, <br />Connie :)<br /><br />Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08187302890702147585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-82081007482701986182013-02-19T18:46:40.063+00:002013-02-19T18:46:40.063+00:00I'm doing a lot of soothing knitting at the mo...I'm doing a lot of soothing knitting at the moment, Linda. :-) The weather has been very grey and cloudy in Wales, even when other areas were getting sunshine, but yesterday and today have been gorgeous, if cold, and it makes such a difference! I went out for a walk this afternoon and felt so much better by the time I got back. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-30764038956206277572013-02-19T16:30:53.140+00:002013-02-19T16:30:53.140+00:00Glad you've made a decision about your eye tre...Glad you've made a decision about your eye treatment. Take it easy, Perpetua. I can relate to feeling less than perky at the moment and I think for me it's the cold, changeable weather that does it. However, recently there has been sunshine after foggy and frosty mornings and we make the most of the daylight hours by going out when we can. Linda Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10634839688042592781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-55829898561873429862013-02-19T11:25:55.554+00:002013-02-19T11:25:55.554+00:00You posted just as I was replying to the previous ...You posted just as I was replying to the previous comment, so you wouldn't have seen my defence of the fox before you wrote this. I mentioned the dog attacks on my cats, but could just as easily have mentioned the farmer near us who had not just one but several sheep and lambs killed or injured in the same dog attack. This was not of course an isolated instance, so I entirely understand the attitude of the sheep farmer you quote.<br /><br />Glad you liked the photo and yes, having made the surgery decision makes a big difference. :-)<br /><br />Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-26647025731827310602013-02-19T11:18:24.245+00:002013-02-19T11:18:24.245+00:00I think one discussion is probably enough for a si...I think one discussion is probably enough for a single post. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-25221136560380063102013-02-19T11:17:51.341+00:002013-02-19T11:17:51.341+00:00No matter what bad press foxes get....we love them...No matter what bad press foxes get....we love them....and not because they're cute and cuddly. Their whole image, bad press included, enables us to hold them in high esteem...clever, beautiful, the underdog when it comes to vicious hunting, etc etc. Our local sheep farmer once told me he would shoot at any pack of hunting dogs that came onto his land...he reckoned they did far more damage to his sheep than the odd fox. Great photo... and I'm glad that you are settled with your surgery decsion...hopefully, not too long now. J.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449652020751269674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-72506970688145767032013-02-19T11:17:34.878+00:002013-02-19T11:17:34.878+00:00Are foxes and badgers uncontrolled, Helva? Foxes a...Are foxes and badgers uncontrolled, Helva? Foxes are still hunted, though not with dogs and badgers are culled. I think it would be a sad state of affairs if we were not able to share the countryside with other creatures, unless they posed no threat to our economic interests. <br /><br />Foxes belong to the same biological family as foxes, one difference being that dogs are normally well-fed and have no reason to kill other than the same instinct that drives foxes to kill. I may have lost 2 chickens to foxes, but I have lost two cats to dog attacks over the years, yet I don't usually call dogs pests.<br /><br />As you know, I really love cats, but they too are instinctive killers, with even the best-fed cat quite happy to hunt and kill mice and birds they don't need as food for the sheer pleasure of it. Yet we don't call them pests either.<br /><br />However, I think the mink truly is a pest, but that's because the mink we always hear about is the American mink, not native to these islands and so not having its own evolved ecological niche, with all the checks and balances that involves.<br /><br />I think we may have to agree to differ here. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-3226111115412382342013-02-18T22:53:18.628+00:002013-02-18T22:53:18.628+00:00That might start a discussion, too!!That might start a discussion, too!!Helvanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-89173591776920285362013-02-18T22:52:33.073+00:002013-02-18T22:52:33.073+00:00Anyone who wants to keep their livestock safe from...Anyone who wants to keep their livestock safe from M. Reynard should invest in a small herd of Alpacas - they make excellent fox- and other predator-repellants, I'm told!! I love the appearance of foxes - but handsome is as handsome does, and they really are pests, and I dread to think what will happen if rabies gets into the country, which isn't beyond the bounds of probability now that there are tunnels under the Channel. I don't think that we're realistic enough about the possible dangers of uncontrolled proliferation of various forms of 'pretty' wildlife (including badgers, sadly, and those vicious little brutes, mink, who also kill for fun and not for food). Mind you, uncontrolled proliferation of the biggest predator of all - us - isn't a terribly good idea either!!Helvanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-34630056996588832612013-02-18T18:21:58.637+00:002013-02-18T18:21:58.637+00:00As I've just said above in reply to Helen'...As I've just said above in reply to Helen's second comment, I think the huge overkill comes when foxes get among animals which are shut in and can't escape (chickens in a coop or lambs in a pen) In the wild animals and birds would scatter at the advent of a fox, not allowing the fox to catch and kill more than one at a time. Perhaps the artificiality of livestock kept in enclosed spaces is as much to blame as the fox's natural killing instinct. Just a thought....Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-49170427443788989852013-02-18T18:16:17.199+00:002013-02-18T18:16:17.199+00:00I'm sure you're right, Helen, especially w...I'm sure you're right, Helen, especially when the birds are penned up and can't scatter in all directions as our free-range chickens could. I imagine in the wild foxes are glad when they can catch anything.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-17859307910688504222013-02-18T15:19:04.737+00:002013-02-18T15:19:04.737+00:00I think they panic when the birds start shrieking ...I think they panic when the birds start shrieking which is when the killing frenzy begins.<br />Killing for food is, after all, what many animals do, but the panic slaughtering is something else.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-87682930219873991772013-02-18T14:58:10.086+00:002013-02-18T14:58:10.086+00:00I can admire the fox for being the magnificent cre...I can admire the fox for being the magnificent creature it is, but it is also a killing machine, a perfect example of nature red in tooth and claw, and I'm afraid I'm rarely pleased to see one ... I've seen too often, at close quarters, the harm a fox can do. Foxes kill far more than they and their cubs can possibly eat ... not a few chickens but the whole coop, not one lamb but ten. The fox itself has no real natural predators. I fear we may come to regret societies current attitude to them ... maybe the writers of those fairy tales knew a thing or two!Annie Cholewahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17608057589525908147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-17937788845034729542013-02-18T11:33:54.943+00:002013-02-18T11:33:54.943+00:00How nice to see you, Sue, when you've so much ...How nice to see you, Sue, when you've so much else on your plate. I like your description of the fox strolling by on his daily constitutional. They don't seem to run much when I see them, but just walk calmly on their way, so that we can admire them as they go.<br /><br />Thanks for telling me about your sister-in-law. I am amazed at how commonplace this operation seems to have become and am so much encouraged by all the people who have had wonderful results from it.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-37218538270573142582013-02-18T11:29:39.439+00:002013-02-18T11:29:39.439+00:00Glad you like the fox, and yes, it's a great r...Glad you like the fox, and yes, it's a great relief to have made up my mind. I knew from your blog that you'd been having eye problems, but 5 operations is a lot and I do hope you've seen the last of them now. It's very reassuring to hear how many people manage well with uneven sight and I'm feeling so much more confident about it all, thanks to my wonderful blog friends. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-23092353426409233032013-02-18T11:25:56.263+00:002013-02-18T11:25:56.263+00:00They are still common here and becoming more so wi...They are still common here and becoming more so with the ban on fox-hunting. People even see them in their back gardens in town. I bet you see other wildlife which would seem very exotic to us. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-71292669243728602962013-02-18T11:24:07.577+00:002013-02-18T11:24:07.577+00:00I think I was already halfway there when I left th...I think I was already halfway there when I left the consultant's office, and writing my previous blogpost and reading all the comments helped me to work through to a decision. As for blogging inspiration, it comes and it goes and it will be back for both of us before long.<br /><br />It's a wonderful shot and DH is rather proud of it. :-)Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-85884341985576598622013-02-18T11:20:09.429+00:002013-02-18T11:20:09.429+00:00I've read that the WordPress Reader isn't ...I've read that the WordPress Reader isn't very reliable, which is a shame. Though Blogger has its issues, I find Google Reader does its stuff every time, even when I don't have time to read everything it offers me.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-82520590657256498272013-02-18T11:18:08.466+00:002013-02-18T11:18:08.466+00:00Tell me about it! All I seem to want to do now I&#...Tell me about it! All I seem to want to do now I've finished thinking things through is sit and knit to a background of undemanding TV. :-)<br /><br />Yes, despite their beauty foxes can be very destructive, though I don't have personal experience of the spree killing I've read about. I lost two free-range chickens to the fox, but at least I believe they were taken away and eaten as all I found was a small scatter of feathers. Killing for food I can cope with.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-16726152369096350492013-02-18T11:13:22.370+00:002013-02-18T11:13:22.370+00:00I guessed you'd be another fan, Mark. I admire...I guessed you'd be another fan, Mark. I admire the way they survive and learn to live to different environments such as towns, however much a pest they may be considered. And they are so beautiful.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-43250021701101464712013-02-18T09:58:20.152+00:002013-02-18T09:58:20.152+00:00I've got people entered into my WordPress read...I've got people entered into my WordPress reader thing, but they don't always come up. I should really just plough through my list of blogs that I visit on my roughseas pages. Would make more sense and save missing posts.roughseasinthemedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02362795583263821176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-81244733040208929862013-02-18T07:19:17.041+00:002013-02-18T07:19:17.041+00:00Hello Perpetua, Great fox shot! I had one strolli...Hello Perpetua, Great fox shot! I had one strolling past my front garden not long ago. He was looking in the house as he walked by as if he was one his daily walk. As for your up coming op, I'll be thinking of you. My sister in law ( now 70) has had the same treatment and looks so much younger without the glasses. She is so pleased with the result. Hugs SueAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04239023812597159873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-23299085128891915152013-02-17T22:30:05.178+00:002013-02-17T22:30:05.178+00:00Lovely photo of the fox and glad you've come t...Lovely photo of the fox and glad you've come to a decision. I've spent the last two years having eye surgery - 5 times in all including two cataract operations. My left eye is long sighted and the right is short sighted but I've come out of it not having to wear glasses now. For how long I don't know. The brain kicks in and sorts it all out. Good luck.<br />Patricia xPatriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16116574112768767203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3705825161954545710.post-59899438441363462272013-02-17T22:28:12.772+00:002013-02-17T22:28:12.772+00:00I have never seen a fox outside of a zoo. It would...I have never seen a fox outside of a zoo. It would be a treat!Linda Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706455533282204519noreply@blogger.com