Seniors, What is an unusual site from your home window?

I can't see them, but my husband told me there are two baby kittens in our shed, which I can see from the front window. They are very small and don't have their eyes open yet. The mother is around somewhere, because she keeps moving the kittens around the shed after she knew they had been spotted. I do NOT want to see the kittens as I know darned well I will want to keep them, but I just can't, not with another cat and a dog in our small trailer and the vet bills I already have. I suppose I will have to call the animal shelter when they are ready to be on their own, but it breaks my heart.

I had a 1988 Buick Riviera up until a few years ago, when we both lost our jobs and I had to sell it. That was sad, because it's the best car I've ever owned. I bought it from my former boss' wife and drove it for over 10 years. I still see it around town sometimes and wave at it, lol.

Not at the moment. But, we had a weird incident a few months ago.......

I live in an older neighborhood in the burbs between DFW. The area has been built up for years, the only open spaces consist of parks, and utility easements, around the creeks, etc. Any way, one morning as I got the news paper from the front yard, I noticed a rather large carcass in the yard. I turned out to be a half eaten opossum. Ugh! There are many large oak tree clusters in the area, but I didn't realize they lived so close to me. My plan was to wait till hubby got home to dispose of this mess. (I wasn't going to touch it!)

A bit later, I notice a commotion in the front yard. There were 2 turkey buzzards there, eating away at the carcass. They were huge, wing spans about 5 ft. and ugly as can be. The neighbors all came out to gawk at the sight.

By the time hubby came home, all that was left was a bit of the carcass/bones.

I suppose a Roman city wall would be unusual from most house windows, but as mine has been here for two millennia I can hardly look on it with surprise. Between this wall and the road in front of my house is, however, the exit from a municipal car park and sometimes cars come out and turn right, contrary to the traffic flow on this one-way street. Once I even saw a bus do it. A few years ago I got the local council to make their "no entry" sign larger and their directional arrows on the road surface closer to the exit. Errant drivers do sometimes still make the same wrong turn, but it has now become much less usual!

Yeah ,Our neighbour Larry.He should have been put into a home years ago but He still drives around on His lawn tractor in His boxer underwear every day.Has already cut the same lawn 4 times this week.Just as bad in the winter when He sits and watches all day long for a snowflake to fall so He can start up the Snow Blower and clean out the driveway a dozen times a day. Last fall.He was raking the leaves and I waved at Him . He waved back .Then He fell out of the tree and broke His arm.Larry is definitely unusual.

Well, the most unusual sight I've seen out my window this summer was a couple of turkey buzzards.

They were after a gopher I'd trapped and then tossed over the garden fence. We were watching a movie in our bedroom when I heard a commotion outside my bedroom window. Apparently one buzzard had found the gopher and another came in to get a share.

Glad I wasn't thinking that morning. If I'd done my usual and put the corpse in the pile of trash to be burned, we'd never have seen this . I've noticed buzzards on the road here in the desert, but I'd never stopped. They are smarter than the run-over rabbits they go after. They know to stay away from cars.

Come live in my neighborhood but then you would have nothing to watch out for. It is quiet and trees, trees,trees everywhere . The people across the street have 27 cats and a huge fenced in (top to bottom) porch across the front of their house. A kitty door allows a great variety of cats to come out and play on all the kitty furniture . They are well cared for cats and so many are so beautiful. The parade of cats allows you to predict the weather. Lots of cats lounging about the ledge is good weather and in the extreme no cats show up when it is very cold in the winter.

It's a cat- barometer.

I don't see any cars out my window, but see tall trees that shed everything from bark to acorns to pollen. Many types of birds, and squirrels, the color of hamsters, small with big tails that leap from tree to tree, and I believe they steal birds eggs too. I do all I can to keep them away since they ruined my back door screen and one window screen. All the cars here are in the parking lot and not in my view. I have to walk 2 blocks to get to my car. It's on the upper level while I'm on the ground level. There are three floors here. I'm in the SF bay area btw.

Not unusual for me, but to some I guess, there are hundreds of acres of corn, just tasseled and standing 8 feet tall with straight gravel roads (north, south, east, west) one mile apart to guide us through to the hard surfaces. The only thing out of place might be the occasional interstate highway noise I hear from 4 miles away because the wind is from the east.

Not so much unusual, but thought this morning if I had access to water colors, I'd have given the morning clouds a bluish tint and the light from the sun that hadn't appeared yet, a peachy pink tint. Of course, I can't paint. Only in my mind. The vibrant, flat green horizon gives no hint of the bay or ocean that is close by. The sea bird with long legs flying over with breakfast held tight in his claws reminds me though.

Today I see one lone swan, several Mallard ducks and two cranes that are warbling. the Canadian geese have deserted us which I can't say bothers me at all. There are two plastic pink flamingos down by our dock as well. The most unusual thing isn't a site but a sound or lack of. There are tons of dogs in our neighborhood and strangely enough none of them are barking at the moment. Now THAT is unusual!