Last spring a lizard got into the house and appeared on the windowsill of the mediation area. (see Local Fauna, May 16) We caught him and put him outside. Later I found what appeared to be the same one living behind the tool cabinet on the back patio. One day in November I was passing the hall linen closet and something slithered into the shadowy ( Read more... )

Emma, our "Inland flat-coated flying veldt hound," is very interested in the koi pond and spends a lot of time almost falling in.

"I'm really thirsty. This looks like a good place for a drink."

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I like snails. I like my yellow cannas. Therein lies the problem. My snails like the cannas too and are rimracking them ( Read more... )

Bill didn't take the hint. He spent the afternoon behind the folding chairs in the corner of the meditation space and refused to be budged. Doug got home from his business trip tonight and- he in gloves and me with a large kettle at the ready- we managed to capture the wayward lizard and air lift him safely to the back flower bed, none the worse ( Read more... )

As I was walking past my meditation area this afternoon I noticed something that hadn't been there before.

Actually, someone.

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