I don’t know what Renner and Scooter are looking at, but Renner has a Brown collar. 
This week True Colors Thursday is focusing on the color Brown (or Chocolate).
Brown wildlife at home.
Wild Turkey in our Crab Apple Tree
Why did the turkeys cross the road?
Mourning Dove in the early morning sunshine.
Chipmunk having an acorn.
ABC Wednesday’s letter this week is ‘D’.
Dryadula phaetusa - Orange Tiger Butterfly
Dark Green Fritillary
Devy Ringlet
Dinner with a 2 year old. There is a reason eating establishments don’t usually serve food on a clear plate. Mr. Spacial calls it “Dinner and a show.”
From one little Dear to another Deer – the one below is an Albino Deer found at Father Hennepin State Park, Minnesota.
I can’t leave out Dogs!
Dogs with Dames and Damsels in Dresses. These were captured at Greyhound Pets of America’s Meet and Greet booth at the Renaissance Festival in Shakopee, Minnesota. It is a pretty fun thing to Do with your Retired Racing Greyhound. Our group is there for a weekend every year.
And I’m Done with the ‘D’s!
This would be a book that my daughter had on her wish list…which I purchased and gave her for her birthday. She said it was good and lent it to me to read it.
I haven’t read it yet, but Scooter and Renner thought it was fabulous.
They tried to pass this off on the new guy but Fidget was in a protected area where he couldn’t get to the book (or the dogs) while I was out running some errands.
Of the books I had sitting on my end table to read, they just *had* to pick this one. The other one was a paperback I had gotten for free.
At least I can still read it, when it dries….
Hummm…..think my daughter will want it back?
Yeahhh, probably not. I will go reorder it.
“Scooter and Renner, both of you have a time out.”
Oh wait… their lives are already in a perpetual state of time outs.
Guess I’ll have to think of something else.
These Monochrome Weekly photos were taken at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
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Pronounced Kay-toe. His name is Fidget….because that is what he does a lot of!
We went looking for an older female kitty to come share our home with us and ended up with a 4 month old male. Upon the passing of our sweet 20 year old kitties Vinni and Monty – both males, we had to wait a little while to be able to wrap our minds around getting a new kitty. We were thinking just one in residence would be fine as we have always had multiple cats and many greyhounds at our house. We have had females and males in the feline department and decided that for a single cat living here perhaps a female would be the best choice. We wanted an older kitty because we know there are so many older cats out there needing homes, and kittens (we thought) just had a better shot at getting homes than old cats. All the things in mind of what we thought wanted, a few days ago I was looking around on Pet Finder when I spotted a female cat named ‘Pogo’ that so reminded me of the Kilban cats. All she needed were red sneakers on her feet and she’d be the spitting image of his drawings. 
We got there in good time, went inside and met with a nice lady who led us to Pogo. Wow – Pogo was a *BIG* girl…but no worries there…maybe a little Light Cat Food would help a little with that and some exercise. We were very excited to go into a little room where the woman left us play with Pogo. Let me say at this point that we are really animal savvy people with both cats and dogs…so Pogo only actually got her teeth into me once…I was faster the rest of the time.
Yep, Pogo did NOT want to be toyed with…that was a girl with an attitude, big time. I won’t go into all of the sorted details…the woman came back in and actually scruffed her and smacked her little nose. Pogo only looked at me with an even more disgusted look – ears completely flattened. I felt awful and was trying to decide if we could get her passed this or not. Finally we just decided due to the fact they didn’t know how she was with dogs (her information said she was good with kids – but I wasn’t buying it at this point), and that we have a 2.5 year old grandson that has 3 kitties and loves them we had to pass on Pogo. I was disheartened as usually my instincts about animals are correct…,that and the fact that we take on and work with any special needs animals all the time. I also couldn’t just let the fact go that she wanted to rip my lips off.
Mr. Spacial said ‘Well are there others like her…but a little more manageable?’ (or something along that line). Of course there were and we ended up seeing a lot of cats here and there, running throughout the place (they were out running free in shifts). We went into this one room to meet a couple of guys (how we ended up looking at males again – the mind boggles), though I do like to say ‘come on boys’ at my house…. ;) Any way, we ended up in a room that had a couple of young males playing and kittens galore. The woman was introducing us to everyone and explaining where every one came from and down in the bottom right crate sat a little squirrely looking guy with sprigs of hair sprouting off him here and there…and even from his ears.
We inquired…his name was Cato. Quiet, bright eyed and the moment you picked him up you could hear him motor purring. ‘Scurrying be damned, scritch me!’ And scritching is what Mr. S did, until he was handed off to me, then I scritched him some more. 
The rest is history. Forms all filled out, fees paid the little 4 month old guy road like a champ in his kennel all the way home. He played with his little catnip pillow and chatted with us a little while we drove but couldn’t have been a sweeter little guy the whole way. He spent his night in a large (LARGE) kennel that is used for greyhounds, up in our bedroom sleeping with us (litter box, bed and water enclosed), didn’t hardly make a peep. He is very laid back, but at the same time very curious and loving.
The hounds here are like, whatever, they haven’t paid him a bit of mind, though we are being very cautious of the cat-dog interaction. Been through that a few times successfully. The kitty is a bit leery of the hounds, which is good.
Certainly it will take some time for all the adjustments to be made and everyone to be trusted with each other but I think we have a winner! The shelter named this little guy ‘Cato’ but we are not certain yet this will remain his name. We have to make sure it fits him, so a name change *may* occur…or perhaps not. BTW – I was just informed by Mr S that Cato Fidget now owns the lower portion of the house…or so Cato Fidget was telling him. (Update since first posted – we decided on Fidget).
It is a bit curious is the way he took up the very spot where my Monty used to lay on the couch….by or on my head.
He’s such a sweetie, I am not sure how we ended up with him, but he seems to fit in here just fine.
Quite a while ago I saw this video and thought it very funny. I just came across it again and thought I would share it for those who have not yet gotten to see it.
Enjoy!
….where no matter what you do, you just can’t seem to get the monkey off your back!
Scooter says, “We are supposed to pick a color of our choice because this is personal choice True Color Thursday. I just don’t know which color to pick because I really like them all.”
“I think she should do ‘Purple’ because that is the color of my screaming Gorilla! But Renner doesn’t.”
Renner says, “That’s right! Sorry Scooter, I don’t see why we should have it Purple.”
“Especially when we can have it…here look at this….”
“A bright Red like my giant stuffy!”
“But Mom said no to both colors because she doesn’t want to play favorites!”
“Oh well…so now this True Color Thursday we are doing….”
“Plum”
(From ‘The Health Benefits of Plums’.)
“Plum is kind of a cross of Purple and Red….or a reddish-purple. Okay, whatever….”
This week ABC Wednesday is Celebrating the letter ‘C’.
Camping!
This is our Campsite when we are all set up pretty much. It Consists of our rig and the Car we tow which is a Chevrolet HHR. We use ex-pens to set up a little yard for our Retired Racing Greyhounds because they are not the kind of dog you can ‘tie up’. Besides they like having their own little yard to roam at will with no entanglements.
The photo above was taken at Crow Wing State Park, Minnesota.
The photo above was taken at Camden State Park, Minnesota.
Here you Can see we lay down some indoor/outdoor Carpeting under their beds. When we aren’t off hiking, or inside, this is where they lounge around. Very often we have our awning out over them. In the photos you see (left to right) Scooter, Grand Greyhound Ruby, and Renner.
Yes the hounds do all fit inside the little HHR we tow. The back seat is down and beds Cover the floor. There is plenty of room for them but you can see they tend to ‘Clump’ together back there for a snooze on the way to Dairy Queen for some ice Cream on the warm summer days.
Inside you Can see Scooter is ready to go!
I’d say they are pretty Comfy inside the Camper as well as out.
And then there is the hiking……
Hiking trail at Crow Wing State Park heading down toward the water.
Some scenes from Camden State Park trails follow.
Lone Goose
Taken at Lake Louise State Park, Minnesota.
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