Usually outside has all kinds of nifty Easter eggs. Like, Saturday I got the neverending battle between mallhawk and blackbirds, and a couple of feral cats, and the usual bunnies and squirrels and those things that look like giant flying pornstaches. Some kinda carrion bird they re-introduced, I dunno ( Read more... )

"What is an owl pellet? It's the football-shaped object regurgitated twice a day by owls, which contains the skeleton of at least one owl meal, be it a mouse, vole, shrew, or small bird."http://www.amazon.com/Owl-Puke-Book-Jane-Hammerslough/dp/0761131868

So, crappy night. The bus ticket thing ate my 30-day pass. The driver helpfully told me to "Call the office." I'm nearly run over by another bus when I'm in the crosswalk. So I'm now Queen of Sullen and really not in the mood for anything except maybe a limesicle and some Pokemon White (no offense). I walk up the drive to the back door, and ( Read more... )

Just witnessed West Side Story as directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring 500 sparrows and six grackles warring in a parking lot over something that might once have been a hamburger bun.

The grackles won. The songs were terrible.

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Came out of the house this morning to find this... ( WARNING: fresh, real gore )

Spider was gone when I got home yesterday. I'm actually a bit upset about this.

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Walked to bookstore, got some new stuff. Went from there to Target (the Haunted Serial Killer Woods have been cut down, so there's a shortcut now), got ten tons of groceries, took it home in a cab ( Read more... )