Charlie has discovered the bird bath. This reminds me of Hopper, who jumped into the bird bath every morning to slurp up a little bit of protein smoothie to start her day.
Yesterday Charlie discovered our squirrel. Not discovered, really, but he finally decided to chase it around. I was looking out the window in the morning and saw our squirrel running along the top of the fence. Then, a moment later, I saw Charlie running along the fence in hot pursuit. I have a feeling he'll be in for a big surprise if he ever catches up.
You have a squirrel?? Sad to say, in our Albuquerque neighborhood, we're lucky to see a squirrel every several years. One was in our pecan tree yesterday! And then it left.
It's particularly sad because where I grew up in Wisconsin, squirrels were ubiquitous. Here, good luck seeing one. Even ONE.
It's Albuquerque. As Sam Kinneson once said-- YOU LIVE IN THE F*****G DESERT!
Please tell that to all the people from the Midwest and east who have moved there, and in Denver, and in every other city in the Desert Southwest. These newbies insist on having the greenest lawns and lushest gardens, just like “back home”, even if it takes wasting every last drop of drinking water in the region.
As inappropriate as Sam could be, he often made me laugh.
Well, sure. And the yard is xeriscaped, unlike most of our neighbors. That doesn't mean it isn't packed with trees and flowering bushes, though!
The area around the bird bath looks rather lush given virtually all of California is under water restrictions of some form or another.
Of course Charlie likes the high vantage point! My favorite picture of my two sibling kittens is of them curled up in the beautiful sunflower birdbath that the HOA's painters had broken.
If Charlie hasn't seen the squirrel's teeth yet, maybe Hilbert should educate him.
It would be great if the birdbath came that way.
Murder is thirsty work!
Of course it looks beautiful, thanks to Marian's extraordinary gardening.
“ I was looking out the window in the morning and saw our squirrel running along the top of the fence. Then, a moment later, I saw Charlie running along the fence in hot pursuit. “
Was the Benny Hill music playing?
Well, what did you expect? You call it a “bird bath”! If you called it the Veterinarian Bath, he would avoid it At all cost.
In Xanadu did Charlie Khan
A stately pleasure-plain decree.
Because, gazing upon the kingdom from his royal altar, Charlie looks like he should be the favored pet of a Mongol emperor.