nature

this is the coolest thing ever. this site has live webcams on three different nests: owl, hummingbird and a hawk's. http://www.starrranch.org
i could only, at the time, view the owl's nest but i swear it's worth it! hours of entertainment.

awwwwwww

finally got a fairly decent pic of one of lily's bunnies. this one is from the most recent batch (there are currently 9 living here now that I know of) and this one is about the size of a deck of cards. that's the good news... bad news is the bigger ones like cilantro and pansies. what lily didn't realize was how close she was to this bunny in particular. after i took this shot, the bunny finally got up the nerve to hop away back under the deck. just as it was hopping towards the deck, lily jumped over her from deck to the grass and never even noticed the rabbit right underneath her. a huntress lily is not.

i've been playing nurse for my mom who had surgery 4/1. i took a week off because she can't drive and when first came home from rehab needed someone home with her. that became a week and a half as she had some issues related to the surgery pop up. thank goodness for a plethora of personal and vacation days at work! am hoping the boss lady will let me work from home tomorrow as i need to take her to one more (hopefully) doctor's appt. then it's physical therapy appts the next 3 weeks! at least i can arrive to work fashionably late without too much ado. thank goodness for understanding bosses!

that is all

been duped

i think we've been duped. what the heck happened with the merger of satellite radio? wasn't it a year ago that the merger was announced, yet here it is almost a year later? not even huge telecommunication company mergers take this long.
babysitting the lily today. she made a bee line for the rosemary bush- sure enough out flushed a rabbit. i have a feeling i may get to post baby bunny pictures again. i'm sure it's only a matter of 'when' and not 'if'. what i don't get is that there is a deck where they would be completely protected from dog attacks, yet they keep making nests in the herb garden. i think 'they' got it wrong when the term 'bird-brained' was coined.
going on a little mini-vacation with my dad next weekend. we don't get back till late on election day, so i need to go to the library for early voting. i think letting obama take the democratic nomination is a big mistake. if obama wins the dem vote, mccain is going to win. if hillary wins, hillary will be our next president. hillary has a solid campaign. obama is still undecided on major issues- not to mention that he just doesn't have enough experience- he hasn't even run a full senate seat yet. i'm just very very leery of him.
that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

haute diggity dawg

it appears as though poor lily is 'obese'. she went to the doc today (new doc so they required that they see her first) to get a shot. we always thought she was getting kinda chunky, and sure enough she is. she's supposed to eat only 433 calories a day! aww.. poor lily. other than that, she's in good shape. the doctor agreed that she does seem to shed an awful lot, so she got something for her food. isn't it funny how you take better care of your pets than you do yourself? she just celebrated her 2nd birthday new years day. so this entry is on homage to simpler times for miss lil.....

merry christmas

merry christmas one and all.... ho ho ho mmmmmm...... hee hee

snotty

changing my nickname from buffy to snotty. week ago today started coming down with a cold and i still have an over abundance of snot. i like to see how many disgusting noises i can make trying to get rid of aforementioned snot. i know, tmi... sorry. but this has been my life for a week and it's only fair you get to be a part of it. i'm a giving type person like that.

those who say dogs can't see tv don't know my lily. when she was a little puppy i was holding her in my lap and she sat there looking at the screen for a good 5 minutes. volume wasn't even on. well the definitive piece of evidence happened this weekend when was flopped on the floor when some commercial came on. she sat up staring at the screen (had a bright blue background and a guy with a bright orange shirt) and she barked and barked till it ended.

several weeks ago i bought some beautiful yarn at the yarn store to make this super cute felted (wool yarn that's washed so it fuses together) purse. funny part is i don't know how to knit. that's not really entirely true. i can knit a simple scarf, but that's it. the purse requires someone who knows what they are doing. maybe if i fall asleep with a knitting show on tv i'll learn through osmosis? i can't begin to imagine what i was thinking in buying all this stuff. it will be my project over christmas to learn how. my incentive will be that i promise to post a picture of it afterwards. now i have to.

pappies

had a good weekend. decided to take friday off and my dad came down so we would go around to some air museums. first stop was the cavanaugh museum at addison airport. mostly ww1 and ww2 planes. we were told that the pilot of the plane in the pic still comes by about once a year. they say he sits alone in the cockpit of the plane for about an hour not saying a word. must be bittersweet memories he carries with him. second stop was american airlines museum. it was anti-climatic as most of it was under construction. however, there's a flight simulator you can sit in and an old braniff pappy sits in there with you to guide you and show you what to do. i flew us under the golden gate bridge and in for a smooth landing, unfortunately i drove us right off the runway, into the grass probably killing all on board... oh well. at least no one had to freeze to death or be eaten by sharks in the bay, right?

fun day came to a crashing halt when we came back to my house to find my dad's dog having destroyed my blinds in the kitchen. apparently he has separation anxiety. good thing he's cute!