Not So Tiny Guest And Ussies

 We had buckets of rain the other day, made our grass grow...well...like weeds! The lawnmower was not happy with the thickness and left many clogs instead of mulching it. So soon petcretary will go over it again.And very soon, cause the weather is going to get very hot again. UGH! And humid, to make it even better...not!

Well she managed to get one more privacy panel up Friday evening, but the sweat was dripping off of her...so she will wait with getting the doubled ones on over it all. They help a bit at keeping all the barking down. Us pups CAN see through it, so we sit and watch for activity on either side of the house to have a bark. BOL!

Other than that, petcretary keeps busy with many other chores, it seems there are so many more in the summertime than in the winter. Fill the bird feeders, which they seem to eat way more of now, maybe because of all the cowbirds, starlings and grackles which are not there in the winter, and they all eat like pigs! Even though we have more than one hummingbird feeder, they are not around too much here, this year. And the bee balm which usually finds them all over it,  well they are not. Water the plants, esp the newly planted saplings...clean up after the doggies, pull out weeds...and so on and so on...always something to do, inside and out.

The snowball shrub ( Viburnum ), is either very stressed out from the dry and very hot weather we had recently...but at any rate it needs to be cut back or even dug out...which is a shame, it makes such a pretty sight every spring. I don't know if it is diseased, or has a bug/mold infestation, but it is for sure looking very sad. I will start with a severe pruning, and then wait and see if it comes back next year. A white lilac in the backyard has also seen much better days, so out that will come too. Arghhhh, smells like WORK.

Anyways, here is a moth I have not seen ever, in the 39 years we have been living here. It was quite large, and was on one of the may apple leaves.

Haploa lecontei    

Well, we like to watch petcretary and snoopervise when she is outside with us doing chores...so she got these cute ussies of us...

We missed yesterday's All American Pet Photo Day, so we are showing flashbacks of MrJackFreckles,  Pipo & Minko being patriotic...afterall they were American born 'petizins'! (Images taken in 2010)

We have joined up with all the other Sunday Selfies at The Cat On My Head. Thanks for hosting Kitties Blue!

The 'Day After' Selfies

 Well, we had to pay the hat tax and endured a brief photo session...it was till hot and humid,and the mosquitoes were trying to get lots of vampire acquired meals form petcretary. Thankfully we didn't get any more storms right here...but many people are still without power, including one of our sons who lives just SE of Lansing. Not sure if he has a generator, if not we think he just might invest on one...even fans do not work in power outages, LOL, and it is quite hot and humid. We offered for him to come over here, but so far he hasn't.

There were a LOT of boomers around here...and we could hear them from shows off in the distance. Peeps were letting off fireworks almost all day. Dalton doesn't seem to be much bothered by them, but Benji was very clingy and didn't want to stay outside when we were making the pictures. He ran indoors a few times, poor fella. Hopefully there won't be any more now that *the day* is behind us.

We hope everyone had a fun, safe and meaningful Fourth Of July holiday! The 250th celebration of Independence Day!

We are joining up with The Cat On My Head, where the Kitties Blue are our hosts each week for the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.

Happy Independence Day ~ 2026 ~ 250 Years ~ Happy Birthday USA!

The weather around here was NOT conducive for putting the dogs in costumes when it cooled off, the thunderstorms blew through here, so we are going to rely on an older celebratory image for this Fourth Of July...

We hope all our friends who celebrate this day will have a fun day, and be keeping safe, too. Let's hope the fireworks won't continue for hours and hours... Around here they may be curtailed, since we have more thunderstorms predicted. We already had over an inch  of rain in a short period on Friday evening, and many people are without power, including one of our sons. They hope to have it restored by the afternoon. Our yard had a lot of branches down, but nothing worse. In some areas trees were knocked out of the ground, there were 80MPH straight winds, we was a lot of wind here, but nothing like that, phew!

Maybe today our doggy boys will be able to have some hat taxes paid...(BOL!) If so we'll show them off in The Sunday Selfies...if not, we'll resort to more 'look-backs'.

Since this 'art', we are going to post it into the Caturday Art Bloghop.

In Memory of Ellie Mae

 Ellie Mae from Momma cat and Her Bear Cat recently became a new angel. So this memento was made in her honor. 

Ellie Mae

We are joining up with the others at Feline Friday

Happy Canada Day!

We hope all our fellow Canadians had a good day and a fun celebration!

Soon we will get to celebrate another birthday...that of the USA, being 250 years old! We'll see you then!

We are joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog hop.

Miscellany, And A Cute 'Guest'!

 Lots of not much going on here...though we did cause the petcretary some consternation...

I see and smell the evidence of your digging endeavors, Benji...

Maybe if I wash it off with my tongue she won't notice...

I swear Benji did this and not me, snickering...

Then one early morning, Benji and Dalton were both attacking the drainpipe...and it was not anywhere where it should have been, torn right off the wall

And full of bite marks...

And bent in half with lots more bites...

Oh, dear, I am in trouble now...

I'm a good boy today...

On June 16, we had some bad storms around, but when petcretary came out of the grocery store she saw this beautiful double rainbow!

Taken with my phone camera...

On her way home from work there was a pretty crescent moon and two planets, likely Jupiter and Mars but we are not sure.

Moon in the upper left, Jupiter in the middle,and Mars at the bottom right very close to the trees. (10:24 at night on June 18th, 2026)

Then a few days later she nearly walked into this pretty spiderweb...but Ms Spidery wasn't home, likely out shopping for more silk. LOL!

And when she was walking in the yard looking for rogue weeds and other invasives she found this walnut shell half  at the bottom of a tree trunk...she though it looked kind of like a barn owl face...

So she gasthered up some more of thw walnut shell bits and made a complete wee owlet, LOL!

An Owl-ly Selfie...BOL!

Petcretary has been busy trying to spoil our barking sessions and the running along the fence line with Rose...she's been putting up 'privacy fence covers', but they are not too opaque, so she might need to add a second layer. They are a bear to install, and the zip ties provided are 'wimpy' so she'll get some metal ones, they will withstand the elements of Michigan weather much better.

Here is a  view of what is up so far...on the 'Rose' side; she may hold off doing any more work on that project in the coming week, as the temps are supposed to be in the 90'sF and with high humidity, it will be dangerous to be outdoors doing heavy work. Each one of those panels is 50 feet long, and they take her about 90 minutes to install, and right now there are 6 of them, 4 on the 'Rose' side, and 2 on the other with 2 more needed there, before doubling them all up.

What a long post, thanks for bearing with us, BOL!!

We hopping in the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted as always by The Kitties Blue at The Cat On M y Head!

In Memory of Indigo

 Recently, Indigo, one of the cats at I Have Three Cats was not eating well, and was also showing other health issues. She became quite ill on Friday, and so was helped to go across the Rainbow Bridge, now she's all well and healthy again.

This memento was made in her honor.

Indigo ~ You can leave your comforting message HERE if you have not done so already.

We are joining up with the Awww Monday Blog hop, Indigo was an awe-worthy kitty...