Berkey

Bud is the larger armadillo with a healed over puncture mark that lives under a rotted tree stump behind my house. Berkey is the name my mother gave to the newest younger and smaller armadillo to show up on scene. He was quite small when he first appeared and he seems to have a den …

Gardening, a New Friend, and a Hail Storm

It was a very hot sunny day, not a cloud to be seen…one of those heavy humid days where the heat seems to be pressing you into the ground and the hoppers click and hum through the grass as the buzzards circle overhead, assuming that if you have a heartbeat and you’re outside, you must …

Bud the Armadillo

There were two armadillos that frequented our property. One was a small armadillo; quick and very people shy. The other one was a large armadillo with a signature puncture in the side of its shell that seemed to have healed long ago. He had something like a keloid hanging out of it but there was …