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pines, anoles, & ancient oyster shells
The weather has changed for the better. More sun now, and warmer but not too hot. Only 2.5 weeks left here, so having to work harder than we did before. an Anole These Anoles spend time in the sun on the wood of the deck . They do not change color like a chameleon. They currently are [...]
The Metamorphosis
Lately Kafka realized he should probably feel good about his name. In the puppy mill his name had been number 543. For years, he’d been uncomfortable about the fact that George, the tall man with whom Kafka now happily lived, had named him after a long-dead writer who was famous for writing a story [...]
Finn and Noelle paint the town?
For several months, Finn and Noelle had been looking forward to the annual Black Tail Ball at the exclusive Cat Scratch Club in Manhattan. Although 100 cats would be in attendance, only 15 dogs had received invitations. Noelle surmised that she and Finn had been included because of their unusually positive attitude towards cats. They [...]
The Woofers
Mose (keyboard & harmonica), Wallace (bass fiddle), and Alison (vocals and Jew’s harp) were exhausted after a long December of successful gigs. Wallace had kept a journal, with song lists for each show, how each venue smelled, and jotted down remarks about various incidents that had occurred when the band was playing. The incident they [...]
With angelic host proclaim
Before Felix was run over by a Land Rover at nine A.M. on December 17th as he was crossing (big mistake) the San Diego Freeway , it never occurred to him that life after death actually existed. He was also pleasantly surprised to learn that there were available chickens flying around in outer space. Death, [...]
Waiting for Soup
poster print When Sebastian accepted the invitation to the gathering at Terrible Mountain he’d assumed there would be other guests as well as bouillabaisse . The empty bowl with its strange markings, the lack of utensils, and the rat tat tat of a Pileated Woodpecker on a yellow birch all made Sebastian particularly uneasy. He wondered [...]
