Critters At Our House

This is Stubby. Poor little mite got drug out of the closet by MacDuff the Scottie. BY THE TAIL! The last half of his tail died and fell off. So he is named Stubby. Stubby has gotten very pouncy and bouncy this past week. We are enjoying her/him a whole bunch! Pouncy bouncy kittens are just so cute and funny.

Now here is Stubby with her/his mother. Mommy's name is Hot Pocket. As rescued bottle baby from last summer. Stubby would not have survived outside on the farmstead. Hot Pocket is a lousy mother. When trapped in the house with her baby she takes care of it, but her spring litter did not survive very long. Stubby is the only baby of this litter that made it.

MacDuff and Stubby are buds now. But only as long as Stubby doesn't start playing with MacDuff's nose or tail. When that happens he retreats to his perch at the window where the kitten can't get to him (yet).

Have a great Picture???

Have you ever taken a really great picture
and wanted to share it???


Here are a couple of mine.


In our old log house we have the very tall and narrow
deep set windows. I set an old childrens toy chest in
front of one of these windows that looks out on the yard.
I put shelf liner over the entire top of the toy chest and
then an old bath towel over that. Our doggies spend many
houses gazing out that window. I know immediately
when someone drives in. Diesel and MacDuff are
our early warning system.

This is a picture that I took of Diesel several Christmas's ago. You can tell just how much he likes his Santa suit.

Some ideas for picture cards are:

1. an old barn or house

2. sunsets and sunrises

3. flowers

4. kids

Our Little Elf

Here is MacDuff our Scottish Terrier

on one of our morning walks.

It is very hard to get a good picture of

a black dog, so this one is special.

He is such a rascal.

Always into or up to something.

The frame was done in PSP X.

MacDuff meets a nasty critter

Late last night, when my husband Joe let the dogs out for their last "job" of the day, MacDuff met his first porcupine. YES!!!! he did get a nose full of quills. Luckily he is a cautious dog and none of them were terribly deep. There were only about a dozen and we pulled them immediately before they had a chance or work in further. Needless to say, MacDuff was not a happy doggie last night. He seems to be perfectly fine this morning.

The neighbors cows were mooing all night long. They had weaned the calves. The cows are now calling for their young. They will stay at the place where they saw them last for several days, leaving occasionally for grass and water. Then life goes on for both cow and calf, just in different pastures.