cat fight!

Biscuit the bold got herself beat up by a neighborhood stray, again. Actually...I don't know what sort of damage she did to the other cat, but she's got a big gash on her neck and is limping on her right front foot.

So, I chase her around with a syringe full of peroxide (no needle) to keep the gash from getting infected. I haven't figured out what wrong with the paw, she may have shredded a claw in the battle. There is a lick lick lick spot on her inner "arm", but I don't think that's what's causing the limp.

She is already asking to go back outside, no wonder her head is so tiny...no much brain in there.

more black birds

Experiments with abstract birds...I think I like it, but it's all about getting the beak right.

wood, beads and dogs, summer here

The wood is in the shed, but just like always doesn't look like enough. I might get another cord delivered...sale prices available til the end of June. Yeah, I'll get another cord...just makes sense.

The wood arrives, it's lovely dry beetle kill spruce and hemlock. "Beetle Kill" refers to trees that were killed by the spruce bark beetle infestation a few years ago and seasoned standing up in the forest. It's excellent firewood when it's cut down, fuel for devastating forest fires if left standing.


The shed before...

...and after. It just doesn't look like enough!Still room for the bicycle.
Dog waiting for the start of a road trip to go camping in the Yukon. My brother was coming down from Anchorage for a bluegrass festival near Haines Junction. Not the kind of camping and music experience I'm used to...tickets were sold out in January and cost 150 dollars! I listened to some of the free stuff and enjoyed the beer and campfire part of the trip. Best thing about camping at a provincial campsite: free wood!

Worst thing: partying kids, but this campground had someone that actually patrolled to keep the noise down. Pine Lake Campground near Haines Junction...spot #10.

more black birds

I think this one is better than the last...


It was so much easier to bead this one knowing what I wanted the wings to look like, where to put the bugle beads to make the wings shine. It's at the gallery waiting to become part of the property tax/firewood fund.

There's a couple of cords of spruce/hemlock coming today. Every time I say that I sort of sigh, it's a lot of work to get it in the shed, but it's really good to have it done and really really good to check it off the must do list. Months of summer drying make it happy winter wood too. It will make the bicycle storage space in the woodshed small...seasonal conflict of interest!