Month: March 2022

Show me your ears!

On By CarynIn Cats

I put batteries back in the trail cam, and left it out where we trap cats to see who might be left to take in to be fixed. The cats aren’t very cooperative with showing their ears to the camera. Mostly I see sides and tails!

No ears, and looking suspiciously large
There are ears! No notch, though.
She gets the star, good ear picture, showing off her notch

It has been a rough few weeks with the weather being uncooperative, then my youngest was sick with Flu A for two weeks (yes, she had a flu shot, but back in September). I’m hoping we can get back to fixing the cat colony soon. There should only be a handful left (famous last words, ya know).

Fossil Rim

On By CarynIn Wildlife
Giraffe looking through the van roof at Fossil Rim

Here is my shout-out to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas. This is definitely one of our favorite places to go, and if you’re in the area (or even if you’re not) we recommend a visit. Feeding the giraffes is the best. Save some food for the herd! You may be tempted to give it all to the Fallow deer, or Oryx, or the Aoudad (my favorite), but be strong.

Logo contest

On By CarynIn art, Craft

I had a logo contest pop up on my feed for Lacewing Creative Retreat in Texas, and decided since I love crafts and a place to dedicate time to finishing a craft seems like a fabulous idea, I would submit a design. I made the top five! They are having FB fans make the final call on their page. (I’m cross-posting this on my business blog too, so I apologize if you follow both and get a double hit!)

My submitted logo design

Got your tail

On By CarynIn dog

When I sit down to breakfast in the morning, I have an intense audience. Not because they get table scraps, but because I get out the laser light for the red light game. If it is too early in the morning, Missy doesn’t run, she just stares at my hand, which is irritating. So I run the light up her leg and onto her tail. That usually gets her riled up enough to run. Nothing like a little tromp around the kitchen island to get the appetite up for breakfast.

Red light on Missy’s tail

What makes it pink?

On By CarynIn eggs

Salmon Faverolle eggs are described as “pink”. What makes them pink? One of our pink eggs had some straw stuck to the shell, and when I picked away the stalks, there was brown underneath. Which indicates that the pink color comes from a white layer that overlays the brown.

Pink egg (top) showing brown beneath the white

The inside of these eggs shells are white. The brown color is deposited in the oviduct near the end of the egg’s journey. So it looks like in Faverolles, the bloom (which is a protective coating deposited before the egg is laid) is more opaque, thus looks white, than other brown eggs. As an interesting aside, blue eggs are the result of a pigment spread throughout the shell, so the inside of a blue egg shell is blue. A green egg has the blue pigment over laid with a brown coating. Ah the interesting egg!