Spoiler Fence

April 13, 2012October 3, 2020Leave a comment

While trying to set up this shot with my cats framing the coyote, I failed to also catch the deer behind the coyote. It just walked out of the frame to the left by the time I got this shot. It’s a wildlife party!

Next time I’ll try to catch the deer behind the coyote in front of a gopher as a hawk dives for it — all framed by Pan and Hera, of course.

Little Bastard

April 6, 2012October 3, 2020Leave a comment

Oh, there you are you little bastard! Caught this gopher in the act of digging another hole in my front yard:

Quick, somebody call Bill Murray, I mean… Carl the Groundskeeper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR0sWU1HzTE

Hera Panic Attack

March 31, 2012December 17, 2016Leave a comment

*&%!#@! I’ve just been freakin’ mauled! By Hera. She just sliced up my face, around my eye, down my nose.

She was laying next to me on the next chair and watching an episode of Castle with me on the big screen. I had been streaming it from my iPad and it had just ended and I started fiddling around with it in AirPlay mode (everything on the iPad is mirrored up on the big screen). So I happened to call up some old photos and videos and started playing one of Pan from a year or more ago. It’s sort of a first person, low angle video where I was getting him to hunt towards the camera. So Hera apparently looked up to see a FIVE FOOT TALL image of Pan looking down with wide, hunting-mode eyes looking into the camera and then he lunges for the camera…

Well, this causes Hera to leap up next to me in a mad panic and climb directly up and over me to escape and run away, cutting open my face in the process and leaving me shocked and bloody. Luckily she missed my eyes. I’ve got cuts across my eyelid and under my eye, a small cut near my ear and a long gash down my nose. So now I’m propped up in bed waiting for my wounds to clot up a bit after rinsing them out. I guess I’m going to have to bandage it up to avoid getting blood on my pillow in the night. These wounds are going to look great for days….

Geez Louise, Hera!!!

Here’s the offending ten seconds of video that I think freaked Hera out. I don’t suggest projecting it up on a wall, larger than life, if your own kitties are nearby:

Big Tree Down

March 20, 2012November 7, 2019Leave a comment

I heard a big crash last night… turns out it was a big pine tree. Happily it fell downslope away from the house!

Settling In

February 10, 2012January 23, 2014Leave a comment

Pan and Hera seem to have settled in well to my new home in the hills above Santa Cruz:

They did say "free energy"

February 6, 2012May 2, 2012Leave a comment

Yay! PG&E finally came out and installed my new meter last week so I’ve now got net metering going — I’m finally getting credit for all these thousands of watts I’m generating! Until now, all I could do was to charge my car during daylight hours to at least use some of it.

I also like how SunPower has yet to ask for any payment. Haven’t paid a dime. Talk about free energy! ;-)

More Bobcat

January 27, 2012October 3, 2020Leave a comment

Pan and Hera are my little wildlife spotters. I’ve got to go look whenever I see something has their attention. A couple of weeks after the previous bobcat visit, I notice Pan intensely watching something from the porch.

It’s another bobcat! Cool!

It’s clearly a different one from given the different markings along its side. And smaller too:

Bobcat in the Yard

January 11, 2012October 3, 2020Leave a comment

… that is, until a buck drove him off. No, really!

I was just letting Hera and Pan out when I see…. oh, a bobcat. Huh. No guys, back inside. No, I mean it. Hey, Hera… come back here — no, I don’t think he would be a good friend for you…

And then I see the young buck. Huh. The buck is facing the bobcat down, making him back away. And he continues to drive him off and down the dirt road, out of sight.

Sorry Pan, sorry Hera, gotta go and you’re staying inside today!

Yeah, yeah… the fence/cat enclosure around the porch is due to go up in a few weeks. Hey, good thing I’ve got guard deer though in the meantime, eh?

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