Random Thoughts

Remember the beautiful Red Admiral butterfly?  Well, I was outside in the garden picking some kale for Nugget (it came back on it's own!) and saw Marmalade catch and eat poor vanessa atalanta!  But the good news is that since then I've seen 3 more in the yard, so I guess the whole family is here. I was wondering why my photos always looked in focus on the wings but blurry on the butterfly's body.  Well, this shot explains it!  Look how fuzzy they are!  I guess it was in focus after all!  Believe it or not, I took this sitting at my desk, through the window

 yesterday!  My favorite part are is the action blur under the wing on the right side.

  Nice of him to pose, huh!?

One night this week, about 11:45 P.M., we are closing up the house for the night and The Mister went to the back door to make sure it was locked.  He happened to turn on the outside light and look out on the back porch at the cats.  Socks (pictured above with Oreo) was standing there in distress.  He was soaked in wet grey paint. (not ours!)  It was as if all but his head and back had been dipped in it!  Fortunately, it was fresh and wet, so I brought him inside and gave him a bath in the kitchen sink.  We had to change the water a couple of times but it washed out easily.  And he was so good!  I was expecting a fight and lots of scratches but he was very compliant.  I think he knew he was needing some help.  I'm so glad we found him before that paint dried!

  I'm not sure what we would have done then!  And I still don't know where he went!

I wish I had opened this can of  carrots when I was doing the letter C for the A to Z Challenge! haha. 
 That would have been really helpful!  Or maybe the C is for crazy? 

 Because that is just how life is at the zoo!  Not that I needed a carrot to tell me that, though. ha.

Anything crazy happen to you this week?

♥