What’s with Kaci?

I’ve been trying to do a post about Kaci. Yet for some reason Kaci has become camera shy and I can’t figure out why. Here she comes now, I’ll ask her

Whoops, there she goes again-avoiding the camera. I don’t know what’s causing it and I don’t know what to do about it. This morning, for our breakfast dessert (a tradition I started and now feel entitled to follow), we got green beans. Kaci ate one and at the first sign of the camera, she went away. The good news is that the green beans didn’t go to waste-you snooze, you lose when it comes to food and I’m around. When fear of the camera overcomes desire for green beans, something’s seriously up.

 

 

Did you ever get the feeling you were being watched?

Feliz Cinco de Mayo

I was born in Mexico (probably in a puppy mill there but as a rescue, who knows?) and I celebrate Cinco de Mayo. There’s no better way to celebrate it than with food. Food is good-even on regular days. Today, yours truly, your Mexican chef will teach you how to make Kyla Kasserole. First you start with organic green beans-frozen is OK but never canned. This early in the season, you can’t get really fresh so use the frozen.

Put the beans in a casserole dish

Now, no Kyla Mexican dish is complete without salsa muy picante. Choose your hot sauce well. Here’s a rating system:

Going from left to right,

- use in a pinch

- adequate

- good

- better

- best. You won’t find this in stores, it’s His home made 3 Mile Island sauce.

What’s this?

I thought I put beans in this. Ok, start off by putting a layer of beans in the bottom of a casserole dish

OK, where was I? Oh yes, I was telling you how to tell how good your hot sauce is

You go outside to your car and find a spot that can’t be seen. Put a drop of the  sauce to be tested on it. If nothing happens, the sauce is bad-use it for spaghetti sauce. If the paint on the car blisters, it’s adequate. If there’s smoke and the paint vaporizes, it’s good. If there’s also now a hole in the car’s metal it’s better. 3 Mile Island also drops  to the garage floor and makes a hole in the cement. Take your hot sauce and … whoa, what’s this?

It happened again. Worse than that, look at this

I’m now out of green beans. Kaci, be a dear and run to the store and get some green beans so I can finish this dish.

What’s that-you have a stomach ache and can’t move.

Sorry about that, dear readers. As  Roseanne Roseannadanna often said, “Nevermind”.

Feliz 5 de 5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did that for this?

It was spa day. Not my fave. Here’s the result after being tortured

Why did I have to endure this? I don’t know. It certainly wasn’t because we expected visitors. We did have one unexpected visitor today

It was a harmless King Snake. You mean I underwent all this for a SNAKE???? ARRRRRGH (not AROOO).

 

 

Park Day

It seems as everybody is celebrating spring by going to the park for “Park Day”

 

For one, I went to my back yard Scottie Park.

 

Take a little tour with me. There’s always something to chase-Kaci come back here and leave that lizard alone

 

We have all kinds of Scottie stuff decorating the park

There’s a garden flag of Kenzie (RIP)

and one of Kaci

and so there’s no doubt about whose park it is:

Thanks for visiting, come back soon

 

 

 

 

Kaci-the great hunter

Kaci loves to chase anything. I remember when I thought I could get a bird (ah, puppyhood). One of the things Kaci chases is lizards. She’s never gotten one that I know of. I got one, bit off the tail and the lizard ran away. I think the tail grows back. It’s a hoot to see Kaci-she chases the lizard and it will go under a bush where Kaci can’t get it. Kaci circles the bush and the lizard makes a break for it the other way (lizards are really quick). Yesterday Kaci was in full pursuit of a lizard but instead of going under a bush, it hit the pool and went swimming. He had to fish lizard it out of the pool. They’re harmless so He did it with His hand.

 

It was just a youngster itself. No lizards were harmed in making this post-He released it and it went on its way quickly.

Man bites Dog

They say Dog bites Man isn’t news but Man bites Dog is news. You know we love our tarantulas and even have our own species-the New River rust rump.

Tarantulas eat insects. This isn’t news, but we have an insect that eats tarantulas. It’s the Tarantula wasp.

Here’s one we saw this morning. The adults eat nectar and pollen but when it comes to reproduction, they go nasty. The female finds a tarantula hole (like this one in our back yard) and stings the spider and lays an egg in the spider itself.

When the egg hatches, it starts eating the spider alive. Therefore, it’s news when an insect eats a big spider. What does all this have to do with anything? The tarantula wasp isn’t aggressive but if threatened, it can sting. We haven’t had a sting yet but it’s supposed to be the most painful sting of any insect-but it goes away in a few minutes. This has to do with us because Kaci loves to race around the yard trying to catch one-they’re not fast flyers. All she has to do is catch one and she’ll stop chasing the wasps because she isn’t stupid.