Singing Prairie Dogs Somemore

 "Lynn, I just don't understand why these lil' doggies do not

come out of the screen and play with me. They keep singing

my name!"

"I know it is not Christmas anymore, and they sing

"Jingle Bells", but they are just so jumpy and hoppy

and happy."

Precious seldom pays attention to the boxed

noise from the computer or the TV. 

She does sometimes pay attention to PBS Nature

shows if the animal life noise catches her attention.

But she loves watching this short video and I 

show it to her just enough she has not lost interest yet.

"What is this giant animal in my video? 

An overgrown prairie dog?"

No, just a wild bison trying to not step on the

tiny dogs.  They actually make his world a better place.

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Silvervine, the movie

 "Lynn, finally you got me some silvervine.  'member when Miss Ellen and handsome Brody sent me some fur Christmas?"

"Lynn ordered this from the Amazon Rain forest area,

but 'cause we are not members of the Prime tribe, we had

to wait fur it to float here fur-om the Amazon River, 

at least that's best I know."

Once Precious spent quite a few minutes rolling and sniffing

and slobbering about, she simply fell over in place and

zonked out for 20 minutes of  dinner time.

"I didn't know this had knock out drops.  I really missed

a few minutes of begging time fur food.

But I quickly made up fur the lost time."

And now she has the fine powder all over the carpet by

her comb area and she makes a trip or 2 a day

to roll around.  I'll not have to give her fresh until I

run the vacuum.

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Happy Valentines Day

 "Lynn and I want to say Happy Valentines to ev-furry one

who stops by."

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O'Dark Thirty

 "Lynn, look out behind you! I see the turquoise eyes of the herd!"

"Watch were you step too.  You do not want to

step on Petunia the Skunk.  You can not come back

into the house if you do."

"And now I see the pink eyes of the rabbits.

They are almost ready to start cavorting fur making

baby bunnies!"

The routine here every morn in the winter is

Precious and I are up at 5:15, and by 6 breakfast

is over for all.  Precious gets about 15 minutes of

frigid open window time before I go out.

I take 10 bird feeders out by 6:30 and hang them up

so when it is finally daylight, the birds can start feeding

immediately.  If the Cooper Hawk is not perched

close by.

I have to take them down at night as the deer will

stand on their hind legs and knock the seed feeders about.

And last year a raccoon, most likely,  tightrope walked

out 20 feet to swipe a suet feeder, knock it to the ground

and eat the whole block.  At least this time he left me the

wire cage.  A few years ago he did this and hauled the

cage away.

 I wear a headlamp and am often surprised by the

nocturnal wildlife here.  We even have had

years when there was a Screech Owl in the yard

at that hour.

"Lynn, I'd love to see the owl swipe yer tobaggan off

yer head."

"I even got some sun puddles this week fur a few afternoons."

And I got in 4 walks in the sun, too!

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Ground Hog Day

"Lynn, you better not wake me up on purr-pose like those poor groundhogs,  Buckeye Chuck and Punxsutawney Phil just to see what if Spring is springing anytime soon."

3 hours of evening leg time.

"Those poor things are hibernatin' 'til it is

time to come out fur a girl or boy friend."

I know Precious.  The two that live inside with us

sleep from Feb 3 until next year Feb 2.  So they get lots

of rest.

Buckeye Chuck

Ohioans are nick named Buckeyes. And BC

only lives 60 miles from us.

Lil' Phil

Last year PETA locked BC in his underground

bunker and he was NOT permitted to give us

a weather prediction!

But BC issued a statement 2 weeks ago from

his bunker by way of Chipmunk, I believe.

It clearly states PETA will not be interfering

with BC's right to come up for the day.

This melted 12 days ago

However we have had non-stop darkness and

rain, snow, sleet.  I doubt if BC will be

able to tell us the weather is going to quickly change.

I had to drive to the "big" city the other day, and

was I ever surprised to see baby calves already. They

had to have been born during the worst of the weather.

Usually I never see any until into February.

Starting today we do have a one week reprieve from

normal winter weather and I am looking forward to

actually seeing sunshine!

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Good books about good cats

 "Lynn, are you going to read to me during leg time?  I love a good story about great cats."

"Homer's Odyssey"  is one I bought when I first found

out about Homer.  Don't remember how, actually.

I usually do not buy books,  but when I saw this

one I just knew I'd enjoy it.

And there was also a blog for him that got

updated fairly often.

I just found this non-fiction that is about 5 of

Gwen's cats.  I enjoyed it a lot.  My library

had it displayed one day. 

This one is her only cat fiction book she wrote

after Homer died also.  It is a fun story told 

through the eyes and ears of a cat, instead of

a human. 

I read all the time it seems.  Winter brings

out the reading in me even more.  

"We kitties must come over in the stories as the bestest

and the smartest.  Otherwise, the book would just be

wrong!"

"I have not been in my catio fur a month of Sundays. I

kinda furgot about it and only look out there when the herd

is beatin' down the door fur apples. But Lynn is not a 

happy camper. Furst it was too bitter cold to go out. She

even took the bird baths down 'cause she wouldn't go out

with a hammer and hot water ev-furry hour. So no walks.

Now we have the floods, so the birds got the water but

still no walks.  Me, I just sleep and dream."

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Never enough with the brushings.

 "Lynn, I just love it when the sun and the wacky weed and the chin comb all come together at one time

"Make sure to get my brushing in soon."

Precious is lying on her sheet that I use

to put dry catnip on for rolling around on.

And at her window seat and stool to look out

the window.

Once she passes out from being wacked out,

she's also trying to catch early afternoon sunlight

in the few days we have some in winter. 

She's gotten so she wants to be brushed 1/2 dozen

times a day.

I don't mind too much, but it means crawling on 

the floor and sometimes these old knees are

not happy.

"That's the purr-oblem with you hoomans, you are too tall

and stand on 2 legs.  Git on down here with me where

it's better."

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