Beneath the Wraps

 Did you have any pets during your childhood?           There are posts that I have shared about adopting dogs during my married life.   I think the only pet from my childhood mentioned is a rabbit I had received from an aunt one Easter (see here ) but Pinky was not our only pet. A German shepherd pup had wandered into our yard one year.   We tried finding its owner and kept him for a couple of months as I recall.           Patrick wanted to keep it and gave him the name "Junior".   He tried training the dog, and paid bail money when he was caught by the pound.   I think that happened twice before he decided he really couldn't afford the cost.   That is how Houdini was from this post.                    For years before and several years after Junior I had gone through at le...

I have seen two different cats hanging around our house.  Jenna has named the three that she has seen and Roland says he's seen four. None of them appear to be scroungy or "homeless" and I have wondered what it is that attracts them to our yard in the first place.  Perhaps it was when Roland put up the bird feeder - though we haven't seen too many birds this winter.   I'm pretty sure that the black cat is a tom.   He wants nothing to do with people.   He runs away if we open the door - and he always dashes off as if he is trying to escape whatever he's guilty of.   Jenna calls him Midnight. I don't recall ever having seen Ghost before we came home from our Christmas vacation.   She is really friendly, well kept.   We're certain that she belongs to somebody, but we don't know who.   She likes attention.   She wants to cuddle.   She has very soft fur.   Jenna loves her. I took several pictures of Ghost.   ...