Animals

“Callie-Wallie, Callie-Wallie
Callie-Wallie, Callie-O
Callie-Wallie, Callie-Wallie
Callie-Wallie, here we go!”

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Animals are spirits, too, you know. Just look at that face!
I took that photo over a month ago. The jackrabbit is looking for fallen apricots, or will, once he decides to stop looking at me. But since we discovered he was coming around, we’ve started disposing of old fruit in the same place. Rotten [...]

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“John, come quick! The cat’s got a long wiggly thing!”
I guess you can tell that my wife doesn’t like to get too close. As it turned out, Callie had caught another chipmunk. By the looks of it, it was dead — no longer struggling — and boy, did she want to come into the [...]

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New toy alert (Koday Zi6)! Trying to see how different formats look in YouTube. This one is also in HD w/ different titles:

Yes, this is HD, so it takes a while to download. You can then replay it without interruptions. About 25 seconds to initially download all of this 13-second video on my iMac at [...]

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Callie the Wonder Cat is big, longhaired, and may be a mutant.
I let her outside sometime this morning and forgot all about her. Around noon, I heard the doorknob rattle and assumed it was my wife returning home for lunch. When she didn’t come in, I figured she had her hands full with bags or [...]

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Something — I think it’s a bobcat — is pooping on the roof. Burning piñon causes great gouts of icky black soot to be slathered on the snow up there. Meanwhile, Callie the Wonder Cat loves to climb the big elm tree up to the roof and investigate the bobcat scat, whereupon she ends up [...]

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That’s poor old Hobbes below. He ain’t right.
We think he has a systemic ailment, maybe lymphoma, although without a biopsy, no one can be sure. If that were it, chemotherapy and/or steroids, if I have that right, might make him more comfy and give him a few more months. That’s not going to happen, though. [...]

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