Three years after a tornado hit my property, Ernie the Elm is still clinging to life. The elm tree’s leaves just now came out a week ago. The elm was nearly torn out of the ground by the tornado on March 31st, 2011. After the tornado, the elm tree listed at a 45 degree angle….
Category: Cats
Wildlife Survival Sanctuary Visit
Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at itsmercy: animals.~Milan Kundera (1929-) ,The Unbearable Lightness of Being I visited the Wildlife Survival Sanctuary yesterday in Spring Hill Florida. The sanctuary is amazing, run by people who have an extraordinary love for…
Robles and Mountain Lioness Social Circle
Paso Robles and Mountain Lioness finally curled up and snuggled with each other. They lived together for the past year and a half. They always got along fine and played with each other. Daily they stalked prey together while sitting on window sills and looking out through screens in the Florida Room. I would often…
Medicine Hat Cat
I try to name my cats after beautiful mountain vistas through which I cycled. For example, Sunwapta was named for the beautiful area in the Canadian Rockies from Sunwapta Pass to Sunwapta Falls along the Icefields Parkway. Blue Mesa was named for the Blue Mesa of Curecanti region between Montrose and Gunnison in Colorado. Paso…
Robles’s Birthday
Robles turned two years old this December. She came to live with me back in April of 2012. She arrived just a little over a week after her great great great great Grandmother Cheetah passed away. The timing was a sad coincidence. Plans for Robles’s arrival were made months earlier. I had no idea that…