Most Canadian accident ever

Truck carrying fireworks hits moose, explodes. Driver and passenger escape unharmed. (Same probably can't be said for the moose, but at least it went out in a blaze of glory.)

Yes, it's because he's a cat

Sora has an ENTIRE BED available to sit on, and which spot does he choose?

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This morning: get in car, turn key, lights on dash start, funny noise occurs, car doesn't start. Guess I'm working from home today. Toby's guess is battery or alternator. We'll try to jump it later today and if that works, replace the battery. If that doesn't work, we'll be towing it to the mechanic tomorrow.

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Car jumped, started up. Most likely battery. We plan to go by Walmart and replace it this evening and hope that's an end to it, as I don't want to spend much more money on this car. It's due to be replaced in September.

Toby loves Walmart for car batteries, as they enver last quite long enough for the warranty to run out, so he gets the next one prorated.

Dramatic impala

From Snapshot Serengeti (3rd picture in the sequence, adjusted in Photoshop.)

Hm

I think that Zeus and Hera* have managed to successfully raise a baby this year, although I can't say for sure. There's a female cardinal hanging around the feeder today who (a) looks a wee bit scruffy, (b) did not attack the window or any other birds and (c) showed no fear of me when I peeped at her on the ground and she saw me, even though Zeus, who was nearby, flew off when he caught sight of me (I was checking to see if she was begging for food from him, which would have confirmed it. Alas, he saw me before I was able to confirm.) I hope so. They did a fine job of raising last year's cowbird; it would be a real shame if they didn't get to pass on any of their own genes. Maybe I'll see Hera and the other one together, to prove it's not Hera.

Also, I got some nifty (I hope) shots of one of the squirrels that eats from our bird feeder.

* The cardinal pair. We put off naming them for a while, and then realized that we'd already started thinking of them as Zeus and Hera, so Classical mythology it is!

Squirrel!

Several pictures of one of the squirrels that eats at our bird feeder.

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BTW, if you want to know how eeevil squirrels can be, click on my "Beady Eyes of Evil" tag and read those posts. You'll probably want to scroll back to the beginning tor ead them chronologically. WARNING: squirrel gore!