The Kittalog

I haven't felt much like posting. But I expect I'll get back into it one of these days. Bear with me.

If you are looking for something hardy and showy to plant, eryngium is a pretty good bet. It's also known as sea holly, and there are ma...

About three years ago, my cousin decided to get a dog. He wanted a dog that could ride along with him in his truck as he made service calls ...

Thanks to everyone who left such kind comments about Sophie. She really was a special dog. Sophie came to me when she was two months old and...

We've finally had a couple of hot days, with temps in the upper 80s, after a long stretch of cooler and cloudier weather and afternoon s...

Oh look, another swarm! Would've been fun to capture it myself, but here's why I couldn't: Yeah, I don't have a 12-foot-ladd...

Now with 200 percent more poodles!

When I did my first inspection of the hive last week, I asked Deb if she'd come take pictures. Not just as a record for the blog, but al...

My friend Deb took the photos, and I took video. But my video came out all blurry (grrrrr) and Deb wanted to clean up her pictures a little....

Every time I stop to watch bees on flowers, I run into something else new. While the bees have so far been concentrating on the salvias and ...

Back before all this pneumonia business started, Sophie was suffering pretty badly from arthritis. So I started her on an anti-inflammatory....

I had left a small plastic pot overturned on top of small post next to the garden, and when I took it off a few days ago, I discovered this...

Last week I got a call from a guy who had a swarm move into a pillar on his front porch and start building a hive. "I've got grandk...