the local wildlife.

I would like to introduce you to the 2217B beta fish, the newest additions to our family.

The one on the left is yet to be named, but we've decided he's our nerdy Asian. Personality traits yet to be discovered.

The one on the right, however, his name is Cash, short for Cashmere. He's a hippie... well, he's the older sibling that nobody really talks about.

From the kitchen: "Saraahhhhh! We need your NOSE!"

Uhhhh, okay.

So yes.

That is my nose.

That's the butterfly that landed on Sylvia's butt.




And stayed there.




For quite awhile.

This particular creature we found in Couer D'Alene, in the middle of the sidewalk.

I have to say, I've never seen mice as adorable as these ones. They were just different than the ones we normally find at home, in the irrigation pipe.

And finally, this is the cat that we found wandering into our house this past evening. He was lonely, we think. Either that or he had his eye on our new resident beta fishes.

Because he kept meowing at our front door after we kicked him outside.

And then he went around and somehow managed to get over the wall to our back porch, at which point he sat meowing at our back sliding doors. And staring at us ruefully.

Katie picked him up and put him back out front, and he yowled in the courtyard for the rest of the night.

You know what they say.

If you give a cat a cookie...