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A series of cat and squirrel segues … with zucchini.

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Reading, with cat.

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It’s cute, but not always easy.

And speaking of cats…

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I’m wearing my fair share of battle armor myself and should probably eat healthier.

And speaking of eating healthier, I found this recipe…

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A good for you snack.

And speaking of that…

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I never knew this.

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And am glad I’ve only ever fed our squirrels raw nuts.

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And speaking of squirrels…

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They’ve been driving His Lordship crazy.

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Knowing he can’t reach them…

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They’ve been mercilessly cavorting on our deck providing hours of free kitty entertainment… as well as frustration.

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This and that.

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I love the blues and whites of a winter morning.

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Or at least I did, until yesterday’s rain melted it all.

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I do not love the fact that the New York Times locked me out of the mini crossword and the tiles game I’d been playing for free until I updated my mobile app.

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Boo to that.

On a happier note, there was a new bird sighting at Casa River.

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Not a great picture, but he flew off too quickly for more than one.

Evening Grosbeak.

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This sounds like my perfect retirement plan.

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Sign me up!

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Oh, hell no.

I’ve never fired a gun, but that abomination might make me reach for one.

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This.

This is why I never begrudge our grey squirrels a meal.

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And finally, just in time for Christmas… an epic gingerbread house fail from my pickle algorithm.

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Just….

No.

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Critters

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The temperatures are dropping in Maine and our backyard visitors are feeling it.

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They’re also probably feeling like they’re being watched…

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Because they are.

Quite regularly.

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I saw this and thought, damn. Our raccoons are total slackers.

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Seriously, all ours do is eat and poo… and occasionally knock over the bird bath.

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We don’t have kids, so I’d better get to work on our trash pandas.

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Sunrise…

With cat.

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Squirrel, defying gravity.

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Yes, you.

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Our one little opossum, who only shows up at night.

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What trees are for.

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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is a fair weather cat. He doesn’t like heat, humidity, wind, rain, cold, fog or snow. Summer is too hot for backyard walkies, winter is too cold.

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But fall? When the leaves are turning and the air is crisp and cool?

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He’s totally down with that.

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And gets so frisky he thinks he can climb trees.

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Which he really can’t. Most of the time he just sits in them looking puzzled.

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Oh, he tries.

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But more often than not, he gets stuck.

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And requires careful plucking from between the branches.

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He’s awfully cute when he does it though.

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Autumn leaves and antiques.

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Another beautiful fall day called for another scenic drive.

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I’m sorry, but autumn in New England is hard to beat.

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The air is crisp and the trees give us a splendid tableau of color.

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It also means the last gasp of yard sales and antique store sales that my husband can’t drive by. This particular shop had auxiliary rooms made out of tractor trailer boxes and were filled with vintage horrors.

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Ack!

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Wow.

Please note the base table of this lamp lights up as well.

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Inside, my husband combed the shelves for treasure but thankfully came out empty handed.

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I’d much rather view foliage.

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Statue of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain at Bowdoin College. Hero of Gettysburg, he taught rhetoric and modern languages as a professor and later served as the college’s president. His home is across the street.

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