Tag: Canadian geese

In The Dog House With The Cats

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The cat food bag at 5:00 a.m.

The cats got me up at 5:00 a.m. to feed them like they do every morning; however, when I opened the bag to get their food, the bag was empty, except for six kibbles, which was one kibble short of the clowder swarming around my feet. Oops! I forgot to drop by the store on the way home from work last night to get kitty food.

Silver: “Don’t give me any of your cockamamie malarkey about ‘Let them eat tomatoes!’, which is pronounced toemahtoes, BTW, pathetic Paparazzo, because it ain’t going to stinking happen!”

Gwendolyn: “YOU STINKING, PATHETHEIC, LAME BRAINED, PREHISTORIC POPARAZZO!!!! Knuckle dragging, sorry excuse of a silver-haired Sasquatch. You irresponsible, long-haired redneck rascal! I can’t BELIEVE you FORGOT to stop by the store to get us kitty food on your way home from work. It’s been like over 12 hours since we’ve eaten! That’s like 12 years for our kitty stomachs. Now you listen to me, and you listen good, PAPARAZZO!!! You get in your stinking little sports car, and you stinking speed to that stinking store as soon as it opens and get us some STINKING KITTY FOOD! UNDERSTOOD?

Meanwhile, back in bed, I slept in until 6:30 a.m. because it was 27º F (-2.8º C) when the cats got me up at five to fail at feeding them. When Jake and I left for our walk at 7:00 a.m. the temperature had dropped another degree.

Geese in the mist again

Sun streaks in the mist

Sunrise in the mist

After I got back from the store and fed the cats, I worked on winterizing the outdoor kitchen and the irrigation system.

Glenda: “I forgive you, forgetful Paparazzo!”

Content cats

Loki and I sitting in front of the fire doing Duolingo.

Cranes flew by at sunset

A touch of pink

All Your Geese Are Belong To Us

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Dawn

Daily Doppel

I had to stop by and feed Sil on my way home this afternoon.

kitty Monster keeping an on on me.

Turkey Vulture

Storm clouds produced no rain even though I left my clean car out as bait.

Box huggers: silver and Loki protesting me tearing down boxes to take out to the recycling bin.

Glenda

Uh-oh! Some one set up us some geese!

Ran into coyotes at dusk

Dusk

0.07 + 0.14 = 0.21

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Dawn

Synchronized sticks

Lost his shirt

Broken

Balloon @ sunrise

Loki

This storm blew in and dropped 0.14 inches of rain on us. We now have 0.21 inches of rain for the month.

Spunk

Critters in the clouds at dusk

We took Jake out for a walk after the rain.

Canadian Geese wading in the river

Mother Goose

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One of the owlets is hanging out outside of the nest

Other owlet is staying in the nest

Mama Owl

One turtle

Another turtle

Two turtles in the mud puddle

Western Tanager

pTerodactyl

Mourning Dove

Mother Goose and her goslings

Father Goose

Lark Sparrow

Chirp, chirp-chrip, chirp-chirp-chirp
Chirp-chrip, chirp-chirp-chirp, chrip-chirp

Sing us a song you’re a Towhee bird
Sing us a song today
We’re all in the mood for a melody
And you have us feeling okay

Crazy Bushtit

Blue Grosbeak love or Not!

Yellow-breasted Chat

Jetty sculpture garden in the Rio Grande

Bullfrog

Female Hepatic Tanager

Owlete after sunrise

Out-of-nest owlet snoozing on the tree trunk

Blue Grosbeak

Out-of-nest owlet snoozing on a large branch at sunset

Turtles have their heads barely out of the water, holding their mouths open, waiting for a meal to come close enough to snatch.

Windy

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We’ve had high winds the last two days that have blown most of the dried leaves off of Resa’s Wolf Tree.

The wind did not blow away the color at twilight this morning.

The goose thought the old paparazzo wouldn’t see it if it stuck its head in the water!

Glenda

Fewer leaves on Resa’s Wolf Tree at sunset than were there at twilight.

Fuzzy mountains from the dust

Cranes flew by fast with the tailwind.

The cranes hovered in the wind when they were coming in for landing.