Here in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia, native species outnumber ChairWoman Meow greatly, but she still finds ways to relax each day.
🌬️ Winter Blue Skies Have Returned 🌞
Cambodia isn't near of far from the equator, still technically tropical I think, but with a little altitude the weather gets chilly here. It's often below 16°C at night during winter here in our tiny little village near the mountain tops. The winter time is the dry season here, so the river goes from a chocolate milk torrent of destruction to a knee-deep crystal clear creek. In the morning the reptiles try to heat up, and the boulders along the river are often good places for action.
👀 Water Monitor Sighting 🦎
While taking the above photo, I looked at the boulders and saw what I thought was an abnormally large lizard. I watched it for several minutes until it began to move, then I knew it was not an iguana, gecko, or any of the common ground lizards we have here. When it began swimming in the water like a crocodile, I thought it might actually be one, but when it reached dry land it was clearly a water monitor, something I've never seen before. If I had made a ruckus about it, the little guy would've been dinner for my neighbors, so I just enjoyed the moment and snapped a pic from a distance.
After capturing some wildlife activity, I decided to keep with the spirit and take some shots of spiders, specifically the one above my head every day where I prepare food. The spiders don't bother me for the most part, they keep to themselves, but I don't care for the roaming spiders without webs that wander around at night and surprise you while you're taking a late night pee.
🐈⬛ Yo Meow, Wake Up 💤
My in-law construction crew is returning slowly one member at a time, and with these meat-eaters comes an easier life for Meow. She now lives on their scraps, has forgotten how to hunt, sleeps all day, and doesn't even finish her mice or gecko meals. It's okay though, I trained her to be a killer, so when the in-laws are gone she'll quickly return to her gecko-based diet and regain her lightning fast instincts.
🧗♂️ Mt. Homework ✍️
Monkey-B didn't like her homework today at all, and after switching locations multiple times and suffering multiple wrist-aches, she finally summitted Mt. Homework, but not without giving me a dirty look first. She recently made her a post on Hive via her @sakana profile, but failed to follow up with the comments or continue posting, so her re-entry was a short-lived one. I don't put too much pressure on her, and trust she'll become more active on Hive when/if she's ready.
I leave you all with another image of ChairWoman Meow, my communist cat, doing what she does best, taking comrade naps. This time she got cozy with a pair of my dirty proletariat sweatpants. She's got a thing for smells, and if something is both fluffy and slightly smelly, that's a good place for a day nap. She recently invented a special meow and look that lets me know she'd like to drink freshly poured water from the bathroom dipper instead of her water bowl, a real diva.
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