cody bear’s friends

somebody was very excited to play outside!

he just had to play with henrietta, that damn chicken in the bikini.

poor chicken. she can’t even cluck anymore!

now that’s fun…

crazy dog, i love you!

i have a good action shot that i will post on dog daily later today, but we’re going to watch a stupid movie now…

so a moth got in some how.  penetrated our critter free fortress.  this vexes the cat, who decides the ironing board is the best vantage point to track the interloper and launch an attack.

i’ll skip the many picks where she scopes the moth, gets angry with me for ruining her attack, or embarrasses herself with some fake lioness posing.

ultimately…she doesn’t get tired of moth scoping, but rather, she feigns exhaustion to get me to leave.

fine kitty. but i will wake up in the morning and curse you for hairing the ironing board.  and the moth will still be flitting around, taunting you and eating my clothes.  sleep well.

oh my gosh! i went to my friends after work and shot pictures of mindy and her family for hours!  i have hundreds of pictures of them!

r & a are amazing. they love their dogs so much.  and you can see how much they love each other in their pictures, too.

please continue to keep them all in your thoughts.  it is a really hard time for them right now, you see, the doctors determined that the ongoing treatment was what was keeping mindy alive.  they sent her home to be with her family for a couple days, but they will have to take her back when she starts failing.  oh god that is so hard to type.

it is better she spend time with her family now, so r & a cleared their schedules and are staying home with their family for the week.

it took hours to go through all the photos.  late into the night.  cody bear finally gave up on me, until i turned around in my chair to look at him…

remember his not-so-super super power?  the one where he senses someone is looking at him and exposes his belly for rubbing?  his senses are becoming even more heightened now!

playful

clever

goofy and cute.

…the fastest bear is a cody bear, of course.

morning all!

i parked myself in one spot in the back yard and just took pictures of cody bear running by me this morning.

the entire time some little dog was yelping like a freak a couple houses away.  i think he was cheering cody bear on or antagonizing him, because it just made the bear child run faster…

ok, now i need to wrangle him in and get ready for work.

no! i’m not talking about my cat!  here are some prickly pear cactus blossoms!

there are several different varieties…

yesterday actually turned out pretty bad, despite my attempts to cheer myself by listing all the happy things.

there was the ruining of a new shirt, a crappy morning at work, a funeral, and the ongoing saga of the creepy neighbor with the cops basically not caring at all.

BUT, despite all that crap, there were some nice things:

a beautiful dog to keep me busy and make me smile:

a great friend who spent much of the night with me problem solving and ultimately taking me to a mexican restaurant.

and the bees, curled up for a night’s snooze in their little pollen beds.

and my blog friends, visiting my site and making sweet comments about my loki post.

and my sister, for talking me through everything so i came out feeling like i’m not crazy.  no easy job.

i’m wary about how today and tomorrow will go.  there’s alot to do, and i just don’t know if my sinuses are up for the challenge!

my friend a told me that in the evening i could look in the flowers and see a bee settling down for a night’s sleep. i didn’t believe her, but she said yes, i could get up early and watch as the blossoms opened again, and there would be bees sleeping in there. “suuuuure” i said….”have another beeeeer” i thought.

i was taking pictures of blossoms tonight, and i was up close to one when all of a sudden, the anther started jiggling!

the honey bee was in there, getting comfy. he was crawling around deep inside the flower, finding just the right positioning before the petals enveloped him for the night.

i went from blossom to blossom, finding more sleepy bees. i don’t know what time they get up, what time the flowers open. i don’t know if i will remember to even look and to say “good morning honey bee.” (honey bee was one of loki’s dozens of nick-names!)

but the first gift was having a friend that told me about this crazy behavior. the next gift was being there with my camera when the bees hunkered down for the night.

i love my bees.

no….body…panic….

i noticed it wednesday night when cody bear and i got back from the firefighter shoot.  a tiny pink bump above his lip.  but today….

do you see it?  typically i would call my vet first thing in the morning and take an emergency appointment.  but, instead i will try to get a monday or tuesday appointment.  if it’s a bug bite(which i don’t think it is) it will be gone by then and i can cancel the appointment.  if there is something serious, a couple days won’t hurt. (it’s the new me!  i’m not freakin’!)

he’s eating great, and as you can see, he’s cheery as can be…

his appetite is so great, which is tough to begin with given his condition, and his energy level is off the charts!  three walks today and 2 long sessions of running like a lunatic through the back yard.

it is really sensitive to the touch, but not too much for him to give up on food. so glad about that!  also, i got my first mosquito bite of the season tonight…

meanwhile….here’s a picture of the buddha…