Always Avoid the Kick Zone
My wife Emily works at a saddle barn, guiding trails at Pokagon State Park here in Indiana. Emily is, shall we say, height challenged. I don’t believe it’s PC to say “short” anymore. But one […]
Tag: animals
The Black Cat Strut
Several years ago a big black cat was spotted around my hometown of Albion, a place in Indiana that isn’t noted for exotic animals. Well … actually it is, since several live at the Black […]
Robert Burns, Booze, and Deer
By now you’re all sick of 2025 being as bad as 2024, and maybe you’re thinking of just cancelling the rest of the 2020s. Low ratings, right? They cancelled Firefly. But my wife and I […]
What I Did Today
I woke up around 3 am. Something was wrong. I had to pee. So I did. But something still felt amiss. Aha, mind sensed a sentient, vegan exoplanet hurtling towards us, bent on eating Earth. […]
Talented Animals – Clarabelle
Clarabelle of Twenty Pines Farm is quite the talented cow. She can enter her nostrils with her tongue. Can you do that? I thought not, but I bet you wish you could. When asked to […]
The Great (Hamster) Escape
When hamsters came into my house years ago they had little plastic balls, so they could run merrily all over. (Humans now have those, too. You’d think we could just walk.) We did have to […]
Ask a Terrier: The Negotiator
He’s a police dog who doesn’t play by the rules. Budleigh the Terrier is…The Negotiator! Read more about Budleigh at Sleeping between Giants: Life, If You Could Call It That, With A Terrier. https://sleepingbetweengiants.com/
Even More Turkeys On the Highway
War has broken out, which didn’t seem like a good time for a long humor piece–although we do need humor, now more than ever. Instead, I dug this out–something that’s been sitting in my drafts […]
A CAT NAMED HARMONY
Living with a cat is a battle of wits. This is true of any cat. All cats are smart, but some are kitty geniuses. One of those is the cat who lives with me, Harmony. […]
A Hamster, By Any Other Name, Is Still a Rat
Let’s get this out of the way right now: Hamsters are rodents. Mice are rodents. And yet one elicits an “Aw … cute …”, while the other delivers “Eeeeeekkkkk!!!!!!!!” I don’t get that. It’s true […]