What Was It?

Yesterday in my Wordless Wednesday post when I was dining al fresco, several of you asked what the "rock" was that was next to me. Fuzzy Tails guessed right when they said they thought it was a solar owl.

I would like to introduce you to Ollie the Owl.

This is what he looks like at night. He sits on the step to guide the Humans home when they have been indulging in adult beverages.

Message from mum.
OLD READER.
When Google Reader finished, we changed to Old Reader. We were getting on well with it when they closed down for a short time. They had such an influx of new members that they couldn't cope and had to upgrade their server. I don't blame them at all for that as to have your membership to rise so dramatically in such a short time must have been quite an ordeal for them. However I am finding that most of my subscriptions aren't posting for 8-10 hours, and I know that some aren't posting at all. I have been trying to visit using a mix of Old Reader and the Blogger reading list, which incidentally I have found that not all posts show there either. This means we have missed a lot of posts we would normally have visited. I have decided to go back to the way I did it several years ago and put a links list back in the side bar. It looks as if I will have to enter the url for each blog separately. I have them in the file I saved from GR. If I am missing something and can do it in a quicker way would someone please let me know how. I will only be able to do so many a day so it will take a while, but hopefully I will once again see more accurately who has made a new post. I do miss Google Reader!