Not A Creature Was Stirring…

It all started when I found Pumpkin snoozing on the bed this afternoon with his nose burrowed between his two front paws as if counting out some subconscious game of hide and seek. Then it became a mini-project to showcase all our animals in their various states of repose: Pumpkin the power napper. Ready or …

Three Amigos

It’s a given that on the weekends when we let the cats out you can usually find one — maybe two — crashed comfortably on the lounge in the backyard, but rare is it that three show up (from left: Pepper, Pumpkin and Jiggy). Click image to biggify the cuteness.

Wild Wild West*

*Cross-posted from Blogging.la It’s not every day here in Southern California you get to bag a wild lion from behind a 9mm pistol in the comfort of your own backyard, but that’s what an Orange County resident did yesterday morning when he confronted a mountain lion that had ventured from the adjacent Cleveland National Forest …

No Fluking Way!

In honor of my friend Cybele’s birthday (which I forgot AGAIN until she reminded me on the way back home), I accompanied her down to Redondo Beach and ventured forth for a three-hour whale watching tour that was spectacular. We tailed a lone Pacific gray and were rewarded with multiple surfacings, then wandered around an …

Me & My Shadow

My dog Shadow is on her way to being 12 years old. I found her on Labor Day of 1994 at Lake Balboa where she had been abandoned. She was perhaps eight weeks old. I was eight weeks past my near-fatal motorcycle accident and still in the midst of being put back together again. Physically …

A Place In The Sun

It was a lazy day of watching playoff football for me and hanging out outside for the cats, such as The Jig below (click to biggify):