KLEPTOPARASITISM

Kleptoparasitism: 

klepto: Greek κλέπτης ("thief") and κλέπτω ("steal") + parasitos: παράσιτος ("person who eats at the table of another")

Meaning: The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc., from animals of the same or another species; such as the theft by a gull* of a featherwight GoPro camera from a tourist on the French Riviera.

*Possibly a European herring gull (Larus argentatus).

(European herring gull. Credit: Kulac via Wikimedia Commons.)

The gull video reminded me of another wild travel video shot by a sea turtle on a "stolen" underwater camera.

The sea turtle video is more likely a case of entanglement than of kleptoparasitism.

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Decorating with Hydrangeas

Good morning everyone!  I am excited about today’s post, well actually,  it is a re-post of one of my favorite posts.  My hydrangeas just started to bloom again this year and I wanted to share how I decorated with them last year.  Plus, today we are celebrating my daughter’s 6th birthday so I am taking the day off of blogging! lol

Enjoy…

I LOVE flowers! I showed you here how I love to decorate with them and one of my favorite types are the hydrangea.   I have a lot of these in my yard.  I especially love my Annabelles because they look like a big white ball of flower.

I decided to go a little crazy and today and I brought out most of my glass vases…..

and a couple other random ones.

Then I went out side and cute several flowers off to display in the house.  I LOVE fresh flowers, especially when they are  free from my garden.  Plus, my Mother-in-Law is coming to visit and I want everything to look perfect!

I also cute some other flowers too.

Then I just filled all of the vases.  I had to take several trips to keep getting more.

Now, I will show you what I did with them.  The first thing I did, was add some fresh greenery to my downstairs bathroom.

I took out this lamp…

and added this greenery  (weeds that I pulled from a empty lot, shh!)

That’s better.  (for now anyway)

      Next I wanted to add some to my family room.  I love these candles but….

I love how clean and fresh these look.

Before.

After.

Then I though some flower up on my windowsill.   I love having flowers to look at when I am the sink.

Before.

  After.

Then I had a little fun and decked out my kitchen with flowers.

I put a glass vase on my kitchen table.

I also added some for my MIL on our guest room.

Before.

After.

I added some in my room of course.

Before.

After.

  This is one of my favorite vases because I used 5 huge balls!

I also added some to my dresser.

Before.

After.  (Yes, I need to fill my frames, lol)

I even added a little one to my daughter’s play table in her room.

What is your favorite flower?

Do you decorate with your garden flowers?

Have a beautiful day!

Don’t forget to check out this giveaway…

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Get Clean Review by Under the Table and Dreaming

 
Happy weekend!  I hope that you are enjoying a hot sunny day. 

Maybe you are cleaning your grill today???

I am excited to share some photos and a giveaway with you.  Stephanie Lynn over at Under the Table and Dreaming tried Shaklee’s Get Clean Line of natural cleaners and shared her experience on her blog with us.

She  used the Scour Off™ Heavy Duty Paste as her weapon of choice to tackle her grill.

Here are a couple of her before and after pictures.

 

 

 

Wow Stephanie Lynn!!  You did a great job!  Thanks so much for sharing this with us and hosting this giveaway!  woohoo!

To see more of her pictures and enter to win a sample of my Organic Basic H2, head here now.  There will be 10 winners!!!  

Have you tried Scour Off on your grill yet?

Have a great weekend!

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