Bartoo Backyard Adventures

Cicada invasion

bartoo4 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:44:13 +0000

Some things require fewer words, more pictures.

Cicadas hatching on the shed wall

A new hatchling held by our front stoop gargoyle

Cicada chow! Sam finds the tender ones tastey

Spring = Homicidal Robins

bartoo4 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:58:00 +0000

Here I am, minding my own bussiness at my laptop, when a robin flies into our window. I just assume it was an accident, until it had slammed into our window about 5 times. Mom says the robin probably sees it’s reflection as an intruder, so it tries to ward it off.
To make this more amusing, the cat is now stalking the windows…

-Emma

Bamboo Fun-Wacom

bartoo4 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:10:21 +0000

Since I got a new laptop and like to draw, I got a bamboo fun. It’s a rectangular pad (mine is silver) that comes with a pen. It just like drawing on paper, but for your computer. Here is an example of what it can do:

Hehe…It’s a happy Turtle. 8D

It can draw in color, and has a pressure sensitive pad. That means the harder you push down on the pen, the thicker the line is. It’s really fun and easy to draw with!

Jack, the new pup.

bartoo4 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:13:32 +0000

I’m baaaack!

Jack is our new addition to the family, a dog to be specific. He is very cute and playful. He is also a bit of a lap dog.

We recently found out that he isn’t house trained, chews everything he can get his jaws around, my cat just can’t seem to let it go. Jack recently ate a glass ornament off the tree…and some hershies chocolates…(o-o’)….He seemed to be all-right though.

Riding to Chattanooga was an adventure too. Both dogs in between me and my sister. Jack was sitting on me most the time, and Samantha was just dozing. Aside from that, the ride with 2 dogs went well.

Jack likes to play fetch (kinda) and tug-of-war. He disemboweled every chew toy in the house and scattered its fluff everywhere. (I found some in the upstairs bathroom….O-o’) He’s a fun dog, I hope the cat can forgive me soon…(It wasn’t exactly my decision to get Jack so I’m not sure why she’s mad at me….)

Deranged ducks = 2012

bartoo4 — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:54:57 +0000

You would not belive what happened a few weeks ago. My mom is just now pressuring me to blog about it, so here I am.

Have you ever had a problem with a stray dog following you home? What about a needy stray dog? How about a needy stray duck? I was doing my ever-boring math homework, when the doorbell rang. Now who would be ringing the doorbell at 8:34PM at night? Mother opens the door to one of our neighbors asking if we lost a duck. (A duck? 0_O) I bolt out of my chair and rush to the door. Our neighbor then leads me, my mom, and Grace to her driveway, and sure enough, there was a duck quacking away at her door. We discuss possibilities of where it came from, while I attempt petting it. It lets people pet it. Clue 1: It’s owned by someone. Our neighbor says it came to her back door. Clue 2: It probably came from Collins Road. She says it looked a bit frightened. Clue 3: Must have been scared away from its home by…cyotes? (Maybe…?) Well, mom says I have to finish my homework. (Party pooper.) So we walk home. Well guess what, it followed us. There is no mistaking it, it waddled behind us all the way to our front stoop, and the dog goes nuts. Now here comes Some other neighbors, Mr. Ross and his wife. We joke around and talk for a while, and I attempt picking the duck up. A bit of fuss, but no biting, I pick the duck up successfully. After awhile, Mr. Ross and his wife leave. But the duck stays! (WHY OH WHY?!) So I rush through my homework, and we fill a bowl of water for the duck. We’ve already tried feeding it but it won’t eat. So we leave the garage door partly open and then next morning, it’s still there. I decide to get it to follow me to Collins Road. So I walk my bike, bright and early, to Collins Road, duck following behind, quackquackquackquack all the way. It follows me up to Gary Chapman’s driveway where I get a fateful encounter with his animal-loving wife. She allows this duck residence in their pond. So it follows me up the hill, and sees the pond. I wait until it’s in the water, and race downhill so my parked bike and ride away, leaving the duck. I checked back recently, it’s still there.

Emma Bartoo