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Well it's the day before we leave for New Mexico and it's time to get Cave Girl settled in her new home for the next 3 weeks. Cave girl is just barely tamed and does not know what's in store for her. We have a transport cage that we will need to get her into so that we can take her over to Mari's place. Well, the hour has arrived. We  get her into the travel cage and she is miserable. Screams howls, yowls, growls, all the sounds you never heard from a cat. We get her over to Mari's, and  put her in her cubicle inside the barn which will be her home for the next 3 weeks. As soon as we open the door to  the  travel carrier,  she runs to the corner behind the wooden pallets. Then, she climbs the plywood wall to the top of where the plywood ends, looks down between the wall stud cavities and decides to go down inside the wall, where she is now blocked from going further. She now starts to howl again, scrambling around inside the wall. She then begins to claw her wa...

This morning, CG was feeling pretty good, was snooping around all the garden areas, but otherwise just curious.  Then she decided to munch on some green grass blades.  So, I decided to introduce her to catnip.  She merely sniffed it but then walked away.  A few minutes later, she was a terror, jumped up on the rolled up car cover, raced around on it, burrowed into it, climbed on the back of the chaise lounge chairs, and then, became awol right in front of our eyes. After some minutes went by with no sound from her, we did pick up some faint meows.  Here she was up in the oak tree in front of the house, exploring every limb on this big tree.  Really bizarre behavior all of a sudden. Was it the catnip?   Who knows?

A couple weeks ago, a mother cat and four small kittens showed up in the breezeway looking kinda sorrowful.  We gave them some milk, they drank it all, and expected more but didn't get any.  The mother cat was large, mostly dark color, and the four young ones were all sorts of colors, some light orange, some black and white with no tiger striping, etc.  There was one kitten of the four that seemed to not fit in with the rest of them, hung back from the other three and when they were all scared, the one ran in one direction the others ran in the opposite direction. Well the next day, all the other cats were gone but not this outcast as I will call it.  It found a home in the block wall in one of the holes of a cinder block.  When called, it would meow but not come out.  Finally we coaxed it out with food.  It was small, ribs were showing and generally acted kinda weak. Thus, this cat's nickname got to be Cave Girl because every time she fini...

Well, earlier this week we saw an ad in the SM Daily Record for a church bar-b-que lunch for today, this Saturday.  So we decided to check it out, because, heck, we always liked church lunches from our experience in the Painted Churches area.  Remembering that the address for this Wesleyan church was on Fredericksburg Street, we headed for the church called Wesleyan up on the hill that the elephant calls home-(TSU).  Got there, no line, no shortage of spaces to park in the church lot within stones throw of the University.  What luck, got out and asked the group selling drinks at the sidewalk if this was the place for the bar-b-que lunch.  This took them totally by surprise, as well as us, so Dee asked if this was Fredericksburg (street).  They said, no, ma'am, this is San Marcos, Fredrickburg is 75 miles north of here.  No, no, the street. Well, after some frustration they acknowledged that the Wesleyan Church we were looking for was the histori...

Two of our neighbors run longhorn cattle on the community's 2000 acres and twice a year they roundup the cattle to sell the crop of young stock.  Roundup days always have a minds eye image of cattlemen on horses, ropes, dusty conditions (got that--haven't had rain in two months) and bawling cows as calves are separated from their mothers. So, this last weekend was roundup day.  Early in the morning, sitting on the back porch you could hear many bawling cows and the sound of atv's. Then on the road, from the atv, came the call "here cow, here cow" and the tinkle of a bell to call the cattle.  Such is the modern cowboy.

Okay, so for many days, there were just two Leopard Frogs in the water trough.  They like the bird beach, but sometimes they sit on the rim and look out over the countryside, and sometimes dive down to the bottom of the trough and sulk.  But for many days there were only two of them.  I had for sure thought the biggest one got nailed by the roadrunner as it had not shown itself for days. Then the day before yesterday, the big one showed up again.  But wait, that's not all.  Yesterday a fourth one showed up; so we had four L. Frogs on the beach at one time.  Then the big one jumped to the rim and stared longingly out over the front yard, and I thought, here we go, I can now witness how they appear and disappear, because he is going to leap out, and go on some journey out into the gravel and into the weeds.  Nope, after a few minutes, wheeled around and back into the water. No telling if they are making sojourns or not.  Maybe at night when i...

Yesterday we attended a two hour long presentation at the Library on the subject of the famous photo known as The Kiss.  This, you may recall was the photo of the US Sailor who was kissing a nurse in the street at Times Square in NYC.  The purpose of the presentation was to show how using facts of astronomy and geography put the authenticity of this photo in great jeopardy. This photo was taken on VJ day in NYC and was published on the inside of a LIFE magazine issue of that time.  No one knows, to this date who the two individuals were in that photo.  Some 40 or so men have come forward saying "it was me", but none were confirmed until some one wrote a book and claimed that it was two people who were proven to be "the ones".  Well, through detective work and a whole lot of cross checking, two professors at the college here have shown that the book published sometime back got it all wrong, and so also debunked the famous newscasters who made it clear on t...