Blue’s Resting Place

Blue has been in the freezer all winter. Now that the weather is back in the seventies and eighties it seemed like a good time to dig a hole and bury Blue. I put him in the insect and arachnid graveyard next to all the orb weavers i’ve buried after they succumbed to horrible beheadings …

A Black Swallowtail named “Blue”

I was outside working in the yard one day when i noticed a pop of color underneath the car. It was a butterfly! I was immediately terrified i’d run him over or hit him with the grill of the car earlier when i’d parked, since that was where i found him, beneath the front of …

Dish Washing Day

​Occasionally i would get busy and the dishes would pile up on the counter.  I only had about a foot of available counter space and the dogs would lick anything below that height.  I didn’t have enough room to separate the dirty dishes from ones that were going to be clean in the house and …