Sunday, October 30, 2011

Puddles seems to be in some sort of "cat" behavior mode today....

the little darling just climbed right up onto the table!

she had a walk about, and then sat down...

Steve realizes at this moment that he has lost control of everyone!

And then she climbed on the sofa, then the end table and right up on the window sill in the front window, and seemed a bit confused by the curtains!

The Terra Alta house

The front


The view from the front of the house

View from the back of the house

The garden side!

The rear, of the house and garden shed.

View from the back end of the propertry.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

More Misc. Nature, Summer/Fall of 2011

The view from the, uh, Nature Room!

Gray Hairstreak butterfly, July


July 23 storm clouds


August post storm sunset


"Polamalu" the Garden Spider!

A hazy Terra Alta sunset in August



 Red Spotted Newt and faded Red Spotted Purple Butterfly
found in my In-law's garage, August.


Poor little bald female cardinal at work!

September storm flooding







Surprise late season Monarch caterpillars to butterflies!






Buckeye Butterfly


Just a beautiful early morning moon, Oct 15

A little tiny black spider captured this stinkbug in it's web....kept him fed for days!

Monday, August 1, 2011

Brother Cat....at it again! June 27, 2011

After Brother Cat's misadventure and illness following his disappearance, I vowed he would never be allowed to go outside ever again. Because he is so obnoxious in that he thinks it's amusing to awaken us at any give wee hour of the morning when he spends the night in the house, he spends his nights out on the large, enclosed sun porch, where he can also access the laundry room.

HOWEVER.....he somehow kept escaping!
On this particular morning, just before 8am, I heard all this howling and meowing. At first, I couldn't tell where it was coming from. It seemed to be coming from outside the (second floor) window of our bedroom. Opened the blinds, and look who was there!






Turns out the little *^%$$%^&* was getting out through a missing pane of glass in the louvers of the door! Mind you, this pane of missing glass was eye level to me, so about 5 and a half feet from the floor, and the space was only about 5 inches! We have fixed the problem, and he escapes no more. So far.........

Isn't he precious?