Today the Pygmy Nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers, and jays of various descriptions were all complaining about an intruder in their midst. Dan figured the owl had made a return visit but we weren’t able to find him readily. However, when Dan went outside to brush the snow off the solar panels so we could get some charging on the batteries, the riot was a bit more localized.
As the little owl didn’t mind Dan standing right underneath his perch (he didn’t think Dan looked like viable prey, fortunately), a camera was requested and pictures taken. Pretty little guy for a deadly predator.
"Are you a Mouse (yumm), or a Man? Bummer... Man."
Back inside the house, another deadly predator was engaged in his favorite game of fetch. Have you ever tried to take a picture of a cat? They don’t cooperate worth beans, and it was many tries before we captured photographic evidence that, yes, he does bring the toy mouse back so it can be thrown again. He will play this game for an hour or more at a time, several times a day.
Caught in the act!
His favorite place for a chase is across the kitchen floor. He loves to make a dramatic slide and nab the mouse on his way past.
Oh, no! Caught in the act again!!!
Second favorite place to chase is into the hallway where somersaults and dramatic tumbling can be demonstrated. His other toy, a red and white fluffy octopus, languishes on the floor until the toy mouse is lost under furniture, or he drowns it in his water dish.
Mouse?? What Mouse? I'm just taking a bath.
Mishkin would like to assure all cats reading this blog that he doesn’t play fetch like a dog. The above photographs were obviously photo-shopped and this is the only “real” photograph. In the immortal words of Bart Simpson, “I didn’t do it, nobody saw me, you can’t prove a thing.”
I experimented today, and made my first gluten free pizza. The crust recipe fit into an 8-inch spring form pan, and I used rice milk mozzarella cheese, a pizza sauce I made from scratch, pineapple. Delicious.
Yummmmmm We LOVE pizza