bibliomancer7 replied to your photoset “BEACH PART DEUX: the wildlifening at Monomoy! We saw sand and surf,...”
Gonna be super pedantic here: that's not a conch shell, it's a whelk! Possibly a channeled whelk. Conchs have a distinctive feature called the strombid notch at the bottom of the lip. (Except for, like, crowned conchs which are not True Conchs.) /too many nature books
Neat! I had no idea. I double-checked it and it is indeed missing a strombid notch!
jabberwockypie replied to your photo “Yesterday I was talking a bit about how it’s nice to know that the...”
Once it gets to be winter, I suspect they will be very much "DAD! DAD! It's COLD, DAD! DAD, save me from the cold with snuggles! DAD!"
I can hope, though of course I worry about them in the cold -- one reason I adopted them as early as possible in the year was that I wanted them to be big as possible by the time the cold weather hit!
ameliahcrowley replied to your photo “Gooberella, having lost her collar as well, is having a spiritual...”
Ok, who showed whom how to take the collars off? Did Deebs de-collar Polk and convince her to return the favour, or did Polk get her own off first, then help Dearborn figure out hers?
LOL, they’ve done it before -- it just happens when they’re wrestling, which I suspect they’re doing more of because Dad’s not around to entertain them. I suspect it’s simply a matter of the collars being a little too loose and me being gone a little too long :D
froofie replied to your photo “Me: I think I’ll check in on the kittens with the camera! Me: Hmmm....”
I assume the camera makes a noise, that’s why they are always looking in the lens when you peek in on them?
The noise is quite soft, just a very quiet whirr, so that is sometimes why Polk notices (Deebs seems less sensitive to the sound). But this particular time she was already on the table, so I didn’t see her get up and head for the camera, she was just THERE and it super-startled me :D
