Tips for Men

EIGHT TIPS for men uploading photos for your online dating profile: Do not make the one where you’re holding the fish your main profile photo. Or the other one where you’re holding a fish. It is obvious which photos were taken in the 1990s. We don’t need those. Please upload photos of yourself. The photos […]

Fowl

My hens are saucy and misbehaved. I’ve been calling them Hussies. They earned the name.

Squirrel Proof?

I’m not sure this pole is as squirrel-proof as the company who sold it to me believes it to be. However, I added some olive oil, and that was more effective. P.S. Don’t you just love the symphony of bird voices I get to hear while I work from home?

Squirrel Whisperer

Quick note today. I just managed to snap this photo and wanted to show it to you. The squirrels and I have a complex relationship of both attraction and conflict. I’ve trained two of them to eat from my hand: Peanut, the fat red one. And Mushroom, the silver and white one. They are both males, […]

Bird Cache

I should have been focusing on my work, I know. But sometimes it’s much more interesting to gaze through the window at the backyard. One of the ubiquitous Western Scrub-Jays was digging with its beak. He must have been hitting a small rock in the soil, because it went “tink, tink, tink,” as the bird […]

Where is Disneyland?

Disneyland must be in an entirely different kind of place, where the world changes completely around every corner.

Back Yard Characters

It’s hard for me to think of chickadees as big mean birds, since they’re about 2 1/2 inches tall.

Backpacking to High Lake

That lake – a beautiful little 2.5 acre lake – was the busiest mountain lake I have ever seen.

Urinal fun

Will this post make you feel like you need to go?

Dieting With Braces

The basis of the dieting plan: too lazy to clean your teeth? Don’t eat!