The Rankin Zoo

Charcoal died this morning. It was a freak accident – we were moving around some furniture and he must have been caught up in it. I think his neck was broken and he died, but he really didn’t suffer at all. But how he died really isn’t important.
We got Charcoal from the Houston SPCA in [...]

Yesterday we were at Home Depot with Coral looking for light fixtures for our addition. There were a couple of pigeons in the store, which seemed odd. We see finches in there all the time, but pigeons are pretty big birds to be hanging out in Home Depot.
Anyway, Coral seemed interested in the birds and [...]

Coral has started talking to the cats – in their language. Tonight, about an hour after Coral had gone to bed, B heard her fussing a little. This isn’t too unusual so B decided to wait a bit to see if Coral would settle down.
A few minutes later the fussing stopped but B could hear [...]

Coral has been enjoying her rocking horse (or the modern version of it) lately. She has tried riding the dogs, much to her enjoyment (and their displeasure), but she needs my help to pull that off.
As you can see, she needs a haircut. And, I’m not very good at putting her hair up so she [...]

Thanksgiving? Well, on Thanksgiving Eve (yesterday) we did get some snow. It didn’t really stick to the ground but we got about a 1/4 of an inch on top of our picnic table. We’ll have to see what Mother Nature can put together for Christmas in a few weeks.
Today, Tim and his family are swinging [...]

We made a short visit to Chapel Hill this weekend to see B’s mom and sister and to see my sister and her new fiancee! Coral had fun hanging out with Meme and Aunt Iris and, of course, Cody (the dog). Coral also had fun visiting with Em and Jon and, more importantly, Sierra the [...]