“Argh! I’m going to get you, Gwendolyn!”
“Shut your trap, Pumpkin Head! You don’t scare me. But that Christmas stuff? AAAAHHH!
Marble the warrior kitty: “I’ll take care of that stinking Pumpkin Head, and make him smell good, too!”
Pe-Dawn
Marble & Loki
Sandias
loki
Sunset
Duo Cheezo
When Glenda eats cheese, she licks as much out or more of the dish as she eats. I put the dish I use to cover the cheese in front of Glenda to catch her mess and put it back into the bowl when she’s done. Loki figured out he could eat Glenda’s spillover instead of butting in on Marble’s cheese. When Marble was finished, Silver joined Loki.
Pre-dawn
Dawn
Inside and outside
Cats, open doors, all the same
Temperature, too
Marble
Sandias
Cheese line
Fallen trees
Spunk & Glenda
Old burn
High winds from this storm last night broke a huge branch off Teagan’s tree, pulled the lower powerline to within inches of our fence, and the lines started arching in the trees. My neighbor alerted me of the problem early this morning. Fire department staff stood out and watched the cottonwoods south of the broken branch catching fire and going out from the arcing powerline into late afternoon before the tree trimmers showed up to cut the tree back.
The branch is on the right. It’s hard to see between the irrigation ditch and our fence in the bamboo. The branch is about 12 inches (30.48 cm) thick.
A zipper spider blocked one of the deck doors last night. She had packed up and moved on when I checked on her this morning.
Closeup of a zipper spider between Iceberg Rose and the corner of the deck.
Bromiliad
Mid-morning
Skinny Mantis
Spunk grooming Marble
Sunset
Sturgeon Moon on the set
Spunk, Sasha, Silver
Soft Sturgeon Moon
Søren, Loki, Beaker
Dahlias
Gwendolyn, Marble, Glenda
Afternoon thunderheads over Resa’s Tree
Dawn
Sunrise
I pray this bottle
capped up so tight
will loosen up
So I can jug tonight
If you can hear me
Though cats are held low
can you slap some sense
into that Paparazzo?
“Well? Did you feel anything?”
Water, but not enough to irrigate
“Stupid water!”
Cloudy night
Dawn
Marble
Spunk
Gwendolyn
Sunset
Echinacea
Marble missing the point of the exercise wheel.
The web
Just beeing
Sunset
Social Disease is on Elton John’s Yellow Brick Road album, released in 1973. While I never drank, smoked, or did illegal drugs when I was a teenager (and still don’t), I loved Social Disease because I could relate to it as my peers thought I was a weirdo. Many teachers and principals told my mom I would grow up to be a no-good-for-nothing social disease. I never rebelled against my parents. I didn’t need to. They left me alone to take care of the animals and the house and irrigate the property through my teen years. But I rebelled against authority and public school. I hated both with a passion.
Loki: “Reach out and touch someone with a social disease!”
Breast Cancer Rose
Marble: “Where’s the cheez?” Loki: “Concetrate hard!” Silver; “¡Milagro!”
Line of cats
Thunderstorm
Off Center & Not Even 