“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow nor reap nor store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” -Matthew 6:26

A rogue parakeet landed in our next-door-neighbors’ driveway, after apparently surviving several days on my sunflowers alongside the resident magpie populous. Obviously not a native species, we captured him (the girls tell me his facial markings indicate he’s a male) and reunited him with his worried owners– thanks to social media.

A field trip to the local salt water aquarium retailer wrapped up our cnidarian unit of marine biology, with a fascinating abundance of anemones and bio-luminescent soft corals to observe.

We failed to capture wild, native turtles to re-home in our backyard pond. We will try again.

Alpaca love at a nearby farm.

One must hold Peanut namesake guinea pigs, Sally and Marci, whilst watching The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Horse bridle education in 4h.

And finally, meet Garfield. He’ll be coming home from Oregon with us from a friend’s farm. We actually don’t know which of the two he is yet, we will choose when we meet them. I suspect it will be like Sophie’s choice.

We heart critters.