For a few weeks now, Susan and I have been bamboozled by the beeping bird. Usually in the early morning hours was when we’d hear it the best — just a solitary and evenly interval’d “BEEP!” But despite efforts I was never able to get a visual on the feathered fiend. Early on in the …
As readers may recall I finally made good this summer on a long-delayed plan to build our Russian tortoise Buster a 25-square-foot outdoor pen to liberate her from her unsatisfactory indoor confinement in a 3-square-foot aquarium. Buster’s pretty much been loving the expanded living space ever since… well, at least as much as a grumpy …
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Well that was a long night. I got home later yesterday than I have been these past couple that Susan’s been away on biz in Denver. Whereas the last time she was out of town, her stubborn Bink decided coming in at night wasn’t something he was obliged to do (and thus left me stressed …
Rowdy’d up Ranger says: You want the ball? You can’t handle the ball!
My friend and fellow-L.A. Metblogs contributer Frazgo posted up news yesterday about an animal attack in Monrovia in which a bicyclist was reportedly aggressively chased by a pair of coyotes near a city park and bitten. Fraz included news of the mountain lion killing last week that triggered my first post on the subject and …
Coming up on four years ago I spewed out and posted An Unfathomable Find a pretty raw reaction to what I found online in the wake of the news of two mountain lions being found dead near Valencia that may have been intentionally poisoned. I suppose the emotion I expressed comes in part from mountain …
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Just offering up a randomly selected image from the archives. This one from Yellowstone National Park: We had seen them all during our brief stay there as part of our 4,500-mile road trip in 2006. We marveled at bison, elk, moose, black bear, grizzly, coyote — even the elusive gray wolf. But not the fabled …