Category: wild animal

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

(re-run) Karin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends… Continue reading Piglet in a Box

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

(re-run) Karin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends… Continue reading Piglet in a Box

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

(re-run) Carin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends… Continue reading Piglet in a Box

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

(re-run) Carin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends… Continue reading Piglet in a Box

A Crazy Coyote Story

Posted in Bay Area, California, coyote, Facebook, Fish and Wildlife, high school, humans, Iowa, memoir, newspaper, police officer, toddler, wild animalLeave a comment

The Bay Area has a nutty coyote that has, so far, bitten five humans. It started back in July in the town of Moraga, where it first bit a toddler in a park. It also bit a man running track in the dark at a high school. Then it bit a grocery store employee on… Continue reading A Crazy Coyote Story

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

(re-run) Carin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends… Continue reading Piglet in a Box

When Mother Nature Pushes the Re-set Button

Posted in Coronavirus, Covid 19, haves and have-nots, memoir, minimum wage, Mother Nature, people of color, pneumonia, reflection, virus, wild animal, wildlifeLeave a comment

Pollution is down. The skies are clear. Wildlife is moving into places that were filled with people just a month or two ago.  Gas has fallen to $2.99 a gallon. No one is driving. The highways are empty. All because of a virus so deadly that by the time people figure out that it’s getting… Continue reading When Mother Nature Pushes the Re-set Button

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

(re-run) Carin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends… Continue reading Piglet in a Box

Mountain Lion

Posted in California, escape, firsts, hunting, memoir, mountain lion, nature, park, relationships, survival, trouble, Van Damme State Park, wild animal, worstLeave a comment

The latest mountain lion attack got me to thinking about how we humans hike, bike, and enter into mountain lion territory and should know what to do in the event that we run into one. The newspaper article today tells about the two mountain bikers in Washington this past weekend that encountered a mountain lion.… Continue reading Mountain Lion

Piglet in a Box

Posted in boyfriend, California, Carmel, cell phone, ex-boyfriend, farm, hairdresser, humor, memoir, pig, ranch, relationships, wild animalLeave a comment

Carin was working, cutting her stepsister’s hair at the salon her mom owned.  Her cell phone vibrated. She never took calls during work.  All of her friends and family knew that.  It vibrated again, a second call from the same number. She picked up.  It was her ex boyfriend, Rob. Rob was two ex-boyfriends ago.… Continue reading Piglet in a Box