Care to guess what this is and where it came from?
One of these birds would be happy to eat it, the other would not:
The white dog birthed it. He developed a 1″ bump on his side with a small hole in the middle:
We thought it was a spider bite, but after seeing it grow for a week, the Internets taught us about warbles and blowflies. The larvae uses the hole as an air snorkel. After Helen extracted it, I stored it in a jar, hoping to see it hatch, but I think it died.
The gray dog was a bad dog. After extensively studying the elusive chipmunk:
She sadly caught one. This is the only time I’ve seen Helen wo-man-handle a dog:
This is the chipmunk a few weeks later:
I setup a camera for a ‘stinky meat’ time-lapse in the dog-free turtle pen zone:
I double dog dare you to hit the play button below:
Those same tiny ants love to invade our house. If they are the ‘sweet tooth’ variant, Terro and poison works well. If not, they ignore it, looking instead for more exotic foods like crackers or dead chipmunks. I finally figured how to get them: a mix of crushed dog food, water, and borax, which is the ant-killing ingredient in Terro:
We had a great visit from Zach and Lauren:
We visited, ping-ponged, and fixed a dishwasher
Lauren is a botanist. She also does impressive drawings:
Nick, Chloe, Max, & Clark are moving from San Francisco to Bellevue WA in a few weeks. They are upgrading from a 2br/1ba 1280 sqft apartment to a 5br/3ba 3550 sqft house, for the same price! They got tired of sleeping on top of each other:
I upgraded our bedside clock to a smart clock:
We also upgraded the turtle to a smart turtle. The tile allows us to beep him when he finds a new hiding place:
Closing with fishy but true story. My brand new Bluetooth Google bud ear piece fell out of my ear while I was wading in our deepest fish pond. After spending 2 hours cleaning out the muck from the bottom hoping to find it, I gave up. Several days later, I was amazed to see that a rainstorm had washed away some mud and exposed it in the mud pile I had dredged up:
Dried it out, crossed my fingers … it still works!
Bruce