Wicket enjoying his sunroom perchDon & I lost Wicket this past week. Variously known as Wicket, The Wick, Wick-Wick, or just plain Wick, he came to us several years ago. A Blue-Fronted Amazon, he was a handsome guy; bright green, with yellow and turquoise on his forehead, and red on the tip of his (useless) wings.Wicket …
Poor Maggie.Our gentle, shy Great Pyrenees has spent late winter and early spring trying to control, in vain, the skunks who like making holes in our lawn to get to the grubs. (At some point, if & when I’m face to face with God, I’m going to ask her why she had to make elements of the …
We have a couple of parrots, Sam & Wicket. Sam, our African Grey, we’ve had since he was a baby. We brought him home at 8 weeks, and from a 2 days after he was hatched, we visited him weekly before we came home. He’s been rather chatty since he was about a year old …
Clover. And she’s my new desktop, too. I hope she enjoys the salt lick that Don put out for her yesterday.
Politics 24/7. U.S. election; Canadian election (maybe you didn’t know that). CNN, Washington Post. New York Times. Up early. Sitting in our sunroom with my trusty laptop. Thinking about next blog post.Then . . . Don & I have a new friend. She made her first appearance last Saturday, same time, same place. She was back …
Ralph left us on Thursday, May 8, about 5:30 p.m. We will miss him, Don most of all. Ralph was Don’s dog, through-and-through. In a way, I met Ralph before I met Don.Ralph came into Don’s life in the early 90s as a young dog of undetermined age. A co-worker returned to her car after …