Are We There Yet?

"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on ." ~ Ugo Betti (1945) ...

Good Cows. Bad Cow. Run, Noey, Run! We're still having trouble convincing Ida Claire (immediately above) that the electric fence i...

"The Romans referred to the dog days as diēs caniculārēs and associated the hot weather with the star Sirius. They considered Sirius to...

The girls have been watching this rock dove nest for almost a month now. When Cathy first climbed up, she was amazed at what a "messy...

Three Little Kittens Have lost their mittens But they don't seem to care. "Oh, Mother, dear, it's hot out here; It's summer...

The things a kitty has to endure...

Scene I: For the last week or so, Catherine has been watching a nest full of eggs which is rather precariously built in the lower branches ...

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to ...

Warning: long and sad... It's been a hard pet week for us.  So hard, in fact, that I'm having trouble writing about it, but so man...

1. Scream. Loud. 2. Drop the egg basket and run in the house. 3. Bypass Mommy, run straight for Daddy. 4. Watch from the top of the pop-...

Theresa chatting with Miss Marple a wyandott who lays brown eggs Cathy's got Miss Persnickety a barred rock who lays brown eggs Miche...

(In case you didn't guess, Bella is the lamb; Bo is definitely the Lion...)

Thanks to Mighty Mom suggestions! So, look out! I have pictures backlogged to the Epiphany to share! But, first, here's a shot of a pi...

By moving her "nursery" into our fenced-in yard, our mama barncat, Georgia, managed to save ~ from what we believe was a marauding...

Laura, over at Catholic Teacher Musings recently had a close brush with a renegade bat at her school, and it reminded me of our bat escapa...

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