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1. Coyotes. Anything that looks like a dog but isn’t, and eats livestock…shudder.
2. Mutant mosquitoes. I probably got that new disease out of Africa, the one that the enormous freaky striped mosquitoes carry. Any mosquito that can create a breeze as it flies by is too stinking big.
3. It’s too hot to exercise. [...]

Yesterday, the husband and I took a little sunset cruise.  It’s the perfect time of day to be out on the water.  We cruised around a little bit, let the dogs bark at the pelicans and seagulls (their favorite thing to do on the boat), then decided to head back to the marina.  As we [...]

The other night we saw a huge coyote on the golf course.  I didn’t get close enough to it to take its picture (unlike my friend Brenda Minton who does take pictures of dangerous wildlife ) but it looked something like this:

Seriously.

I’ve been really jealous of the people who live on the other ponds in our neighborhood. They have ducks and turtles and stuff and ours was just…a pond. I even considered buying a couple of ducks for the pond. I love ducks. Maybe it goes back to the baby duck I [...]