A most disturbing occurrence.

Recently, the yard has been acquiring some other animals.

I don’t want to name any names, but someone has been sneaking in and putting things in my yard.

This is Zippy the Zombie Squirrel. He scares me. He’s a yard light, of all things. And aren’t you lucky? You get two pictures of him. One in the daytime so that you can see how silly he looks carrying that nut like a football.

Honestly. I’ve chased enough squirrels to know that they don’t carry nuts like that.

And then there’s a picture of him being scary at night. Can you imagine coming home to this after a nice long walk? I’ve successfully terrorized all the cats, coyotes, bunnies, rats, mice, and chickens away from the studio, and then I come up the driveway and see this. I tell you. It gives me puppy nightmares.

But don’t worry. It gets worse.

There are the horses.

Not even real horses. They’re plastic. They don’t run. They don’t do anything. I can’t chase them.

They come from children who have destroyed them and left them on the side of the road or at garage sales.

Children scare me almost as much as Zippy does.

This is a picture of me ignoring the horses in my yard.

And let me clear. It is my yard. Roger’s told me so. He’s even growing grass for me and keeps it mowed and all the leaves blown off of it and now I even have a doggie door that I can use to go in and out… He doesn’t seem to care that these things are in it.

Roger calls it art. I’ve decided that I don’t like art in my yard.

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More from Winnipeg

It’s taken me a little while to get the photos from Roger organized, but I at least wanted to show you some of my other favorites from Roger’s trip.

This is my friend in Canada, May. Isn’t she cute? Not as cute as I am, of course. She’s a Schnauser and lives with two glass artists. Roger got to stay with her while he was out of town and even went along on walks with her.

I don’t hold it against him. I hope he realizes how much I put up with from him…

One of May’s owners, Lucinda, does amazing stained glass and this was one of my favorites pieces that she made:

 

My Bed is a Boat by Lucinda Doran

 

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Roger loves Uroboros and Kats. I don’t hold it against him.

I was out walking my Roger this morning and we ran into Kat.

Not a real cat. Trust me. I know the difference. Roger’s been talking to me about the real ones. Mostly: “LEAVE IT,” he explained. Tee hee. I paraphrased Ring Lardner. Pretty smart for a dog…

Anyway, Kat is not a cat, but she likes them. It’s OK. She likes me, too. She brought me treats once. I tend to remember these things. Treats are very important to a dog.

Kat and Roger are friends and she works at Uroboros and they talk a lot about glass and glass colors and Roger throws temper tantrums because he thinks that whenever he likes a color, they automatically discontinue it because of course the world revolves around him… So then Kat is really nice and saves him the last few bottles of evergreen frit or sage green frit or whatever it is.

I can’t even see colors. Does he even once consider that?

They also talked about streaky glass. Roger has a big commission coming up and will need lots of black streaky for his birch trees. But it was still glass talk. Blah, blah, blah…

They never once said anything important. No talk of squirrels, no mention of cats (the small, furry ones, I mean), not even the smallest discussion of treats.

I’m pretty sure I would have remembered that.

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