[Remy, a big black dog with white toes and a white splotch running down his chest and belly, is sitting at the corner of the house. He’s staring off to the left of the camera, ears folded over.]
Just some stuff. Like a dog.
& what a dog he is!
[Remy’s looking right at the camera now, tongue hanging out in a big smile, ears perked forward in a friendly manner.]
& then he jumped on me, because he’s large & appalling.
There was a mouse in my trash can late one night! I almost managed to get it into a container with a lid, but those little bastards can JUMP.
[A perfectly standard brown field mouse is sitting in the bottom of a translucent plastic trash can, along with an ice cream sandwich wrapper. It’s making no attempt to hide, and its ears and whiskers are eloquent of curiosity.]
I also finally got the eye plants into iNaturalist, upon which it declared that they’re actually called ‘saltlovers’, Halogeton glomeratus. They’re invasive, of course, deadly to livestock, & tend to show up on disturbed soil — which is pretty much what we’ve got here. We haven’t got a ton of it, & there’s other stuff that’ll crowd it out, so I’m not real worried about it being here.
Also, it looks like this.
[Clusters of tiny flowers, pink in the center with translucent white petals all round, fill nearly the entire photo. There are also a few equally tiny green leaves.]
They’re neato! We just don’t need em.
[This photo’s much the same, with the addition of bright pink plant stems visible in with the flowers. They’re nearly the same color as the center of each flower.]
Apparently they taste pretty gross, too, so as long as your livestock have something else to eat, they’ll avoid them.
Still gonna see about pulling a bunch of them once the flowers start dying, but if we’ve always got a couple of them around, I think we can cope.
