30 September 2010

Rain Numbers - 2009/2010

Total rain for the year - 52.76"

I seem to have missed .15", no doubt some combination of senility and being arithmetically-challenged; here’s to even more rain next year!

Persistent Beggars

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12 September 2010

Bumper Snicker

On the back of a hybrid Mercury Mariner at Ben Lomond Market.

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07 September 2010

Rain Numbers - 7 September 2010

.01", for today
.01", for the storm
.01", for the month
52.61", for the (rain) year

24 August 2010

Caught This One Breaking Into the Garage…

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17 August 2010

A Word to the Noisy

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold

14 August 2010

Where Did That Blue Come From?

Curtis found this one (a salamander, we think) between the pond liner and the underlayment (or was that between the underlayment and the pond liner?).

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Someone Else Has Been Visiting in the Night

If you click on the picture, you can actually see the prints…

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Her Chin Is Sooooo Heavy

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09 August 2010

Rain Numbers - 9 August 2010

.02", for today
.02", for the storm
.02", for the month
52.60", for the (rain) year

21 July 2010

Rain Numbers - 21 July 2010

.01", for today
.01", for the storm
.01", for the month
52.58", for the (rain) year

12 July 2010

What’s Important

Today’s Daily Thought from Real Simple:

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

― J.R.R. Tolkien

09 July 2010

Bumper Snicker

On the back of a Subaru thing on the way to the Dodge dealer:

I love my country
But fear my government

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08 July 2010

Huh! I’d Be THRILLED to Be Able to Wear…

…clothes six sizes bigger!!

From Quotes of the Day, today:

I don’t understand the sizes anymore. There’s a size zero, which I didn’t even know that they had. It must stand for: “Ohhh my God, you’re thin.”
- Ellen DeGeneres

In the Rock Garden





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07 July 2010

Poppies!!

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Breakfast

A favorite time of the day for the hungry, starving things!



Big Brown Truck and Sequin in the feeding ring, Uncle Sam to the left, and Queen Mary above.


Queen Mary.


Big Brown Truck, Queen Mary to the left, Uncle Sam exiting stage top.


Big Brown Truck and Harpo.


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06 July 2010

Nap Time!

All tuckered out from supervising the various goings on.

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Somehow, I Don’t Think…

…the goldfish were particularly impressed… I’m just utterly relieved there weren’t any raccoons in the tank!!!


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