Category Archives: Pets

I soaked a pound of black beans overnight and then cooked them for an hour or two.  I had a notion to do a bean and corn something or other and ended up here.  The corn was grilled and then cut from the cob.  There are a few green onions chopped into the mix, and a bit of fresh yellow bell pepper.  I dumped in the last of a jar of pickled green chilies, tried it, and added some pickled red peppers because I thought the green ones were good in there.  The dressing was a vinaigrette of rice wine vinegar and olive oil with crushed and minced garlic.  There is a sprinkle of ground cumin and salt.  I may do the same dish with fresh roasted peppers the next go.  This made a decent side salad.Here are all the pups lined up at the door with Katie showing better manners than the rest of them.  Mrs J is teaching her to accept the leash and she is doing pretty well.  Long road, still.Bea catches some Zs under the rhodie.And here is a young turkey wandering through the yard.  There are plenty of turkeys hereabouts and occasionally we see them poking about.

We keep a broadcast feeder at the back pond filled with whole corn, set to run a few times a day.  A video camera is set to watch over it and gets plenty of videos of various critters:  Ducks, turkeys, deer, birds of all kinds, squirrels, stray cats and dogs, the rare coyote.  Mostly, though, we get raccoons, usually at night.  The other morning I trundled down there with a refill for the corn and surprised a ‘coon.  He didn’t have anywhere to go but into the water.  Not a very good swimmer, but he made it across.