Wood ducks arrive at our Alabama pond in the Fall and Winter months. Here’s our first glimpse of them in 2019.
Wood Ducks Arrive at The Pond in the Fall
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Expecting fish, but turtles show up
Turtle sunning itself out by our pond. We seem to have our own private "Turtletopia". Our pond is swarming with a variety of turtles. I love watching them and trying to discover more about them. Up to now, I've only rarely seen one outside a pet shop or someone's...
Meet my staff
My efforts here are largely an outlet for my own busy imagination. My husband Mark chips in for some parts of it and my children lend a hand here and there but mostly it's just me and a houseful of pets who hang around to provide inspiration. Meet Sophie, Lucky, Mick...
Why do little ideas sometimes end up being big trouble?
I seem to have a special talent for having a simple idea turn out to be really complicated when I try to act on it. Apparently, I'm not the only one - the cow in the picture evidently had the simple idea of exploring life on the other side of the fence. Look...
Mystery Solved?…”Cat Who” Series Author, Lilian Jackson Braun passed away
In the past, I wrote about my passion for reading the "Cat Who" series of novels by Lilian Jackson Braun and puzzled over why the series trailed off in such a deflated way. I pondered with the rest of her fans about whether or not the series was continued by a...
A Harmonious Relationship
I get a huge kick out of the quirky behavior of my dog Lucky and her sidekick Ramses. Both pets are hard luck stories. Lucky, came to us many years ago. Found abandoned in the woods, emaciated and suffering from a wicked case of mange. We thought she had no hope...
Back to My Lilian Jackson Braun Addiction
I mentioned in my last post I've changed jobs. There's been a lot of stress with that. Not really a bad kind of stress (is there really such a thing as good stress?) but just stress from a stuffed schedule, logistical matters, that kind of thing. I have a 17 year...
A Different Kind of March Wind
In like a lion and out like a lamb. The old axiom that describes the windy, sometimes stormy entrance of March and it's often much more calm exit into the warmer months of Springtime. Whether it comes as described in this old saying or not, March represents the change...
It’s a Cold World
It’s a cold world. At least it is around here right now. I’m in the south, specifically Alabaster, Alabama and it just doesn’t get mentionably cold very often in this part of the country. This year has been exceptional in that we have had several instances of snow and frigid temperatures.
A Real Live Mystery of Sorts | What happened to Lilian Jackson Braun
I love to read mysteries and one day sometime in the early to mid 1990’s I’d run out of options, at least familiar ones. After browsing and finding nothing of interest on my own, I asked the librarian at the Wheeler Basin Regional Library in Decatur Alabama for some suggestions. She pointed me to “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts” by Lilian Jackson Braun. I read it in just a few days and I loved it.