Birds have always liked to stop and rest on the window unit hanging from the front window. Once they perceive their reflection in the window they usually stay for a while. They’ll chat a bit, posture, make a display with their feathers, and in the case of road runners, even peck at the window in …
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The First Hachiya Persimmon
I bought a hachiya persimmon tree last year. I spent years looking for one but every nursery just wanted to carry fuyu. Fuyu persimmons are great until you have a ripe hachiya. It’s like orange, pudding-consistency sugar in a spoon. If you are patient enough to wait for one….it is a treasure. To eat it …
The Old Laundry Line
I hadnt used the laundry line i installed 7 years ago for regular laundry in some time but occasionally i used it for one or two things as i did this time for the dog towel, the leash, and the clothes i wore to bathe the dogs because i knew better than to put that …
Sili and Cashew’s First Bath in Years
The dogs hadnt had a bath in years and half way through October, i was nearing the end of the days it would be warm enough to bathe the dogs outdoors. If i was going to do it i needed to hurry up and do it. So unfortunately, this is all i can show you …
Nana Pudding Lays a Double Yolker
Ive always had a variety of sizes of chicken, some big, some small, depending on who hogs most of the food and where everybody is on the totem pole, so i may have gotten double yolker eggs in the past and just not known it. However, this time my one americauna, nana pudding, laid a …
Better Late than Never
Ever since i got my new older model iphone over a year ago i have been fighting a battle with technology when it comes to photographing color. The camera on this version of iphone is always doing two things: trying to correct night time exposure to look like a daytime sky and trying to correct …
Nakano’s Sister Adira and Mysterious Developments Above her Web
A mere 30 feet from where Nakano had made her web i found a female orb weaver nearly identical to her in size and marking and deduced that they must have come from the same egg sac. If they are different sizes i assume they hatched at different times and came from different mothers but …
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The Most Recent Flavor of Insanity
Half of the people i know are struggling to afford to put food in their pantries and on the table. If something is a bit over ripe or about to spoil, we dont throw it out. We make use of it, because food is a huge chunk of our living expense right now. It has …
Buddy Goes Outside
We made it 6 days. We did not make it 41 days. On the morning of the sixth day Cashew had come to my bed and barked every hour on the hour since 10 pm the night before. I never hit deep sleep, ever, because every hour on the hour cashew was there barking in …
41 Days was a Lofty Idea.
As you’ll hear in this audio clip, beginning at 4 am, Buddy crows once every 30 seconds until around 7 pm. I became acutely aware of this because Buddy was sharing a 1 room 384 square foot house with a tin roof with me and both dogs, one of which has always possessed a strong …