Mousie in the Cedar Stump!

Tantalizingly out of reach!! Pepper tries to corkscrew herself into the tiny burrow. The rotting Cedar bark gives way easily to her claws and she's got a good tunnel started in hot pursuit. I am so grateful that there are no rattlesnakes here!!! This would have worried me to death back down in CA.

I really love all the native plants here in WA, the Salal (large "Lemon Leaf" plant), all the different delicate ferns, the many fascinating mosses, the Huckleberry bushes and of course the mighty Cedar trees. This stump is huge - it is the remains of a real titan of a tree.

Pepper of course loves all the different varmints and vermin here. We have abundant clever Chipmunks, rather large and sluggish Wood Rats, Deer Mice, regular mice, and some sort of swampy critter in the pond, probably a Muskrat? Pepper is smart enough to give the Muskrat a wide berth although she does like to sniff around it's trails.