Wall Ball

Ranger and I have a game we play every now and then outside the backdoor that utilizes a tennis ball and a wall and thus we call it Wall Ball. When we first started playing it, Ranger would try desperately to get the ball as it passed her going forward and then again on the …

Head-To-Head

click to quadruplify Pepper and Jiggy. Dinner time. Fancy Feast. Kitchen Counter. Jiggy won.

Four On The Floor

It was a year ago today that Susan and I found these four abandoned furballs on the side of the highway while coming through Monument Valley in Utah on the latter part of our 4,500-mile roadtrip vacation: July 11, 2006: We successfully smuggled them into our room at the Cliff Dwellers Lodge near Vermilion Cliffs, …

Coyote On The Fourth Of July

I’d hazard anyone with the slightest sense of who I am has a pretty good idea that when it comes to animals and wildlife I’m all about protect and respect. The more dissed the coyote, the opossum, the rat, the reptile or spider the more I rally to its side. And while I can entirely …

Beeing There

As I wrote in yesterday’s post about the long-horned digger bees I discovered now residing in our side yard, I’d check in on the remaining males aerially competing for the affections of an as-yet-unseen female somewhere in the vicinity, to see what a second round of activity might hold. The answer is: plenty. And this …

Seeing Is Bee-lieving

I noticed it this morning, perhaps a dozen or so bees flitting about seemingly chasing each other over a small corner of the side yard where the African violets had bloomed earlier in the spring. But these didn’t seem like your ordinary honey bees, no. There was something different about the way they moved and …

BowlCam: Chow Time

Sixty entirely mindless seconds of Pepper having a mid-day snack — but good audio crunch n’ munch action: Alternate LOLCATS title: IM N YER BOWL MUNCHIN YER WHISKAZ