Bobcat

Love this weather. It was an absolutely perfect day. Cool and sunny, just the way I like it. We went out to the farm right after lunch, and the weather was gorgeous. The bub went right down for his nap and the hub was able to begin tearing down the old smoke house which he is planning on rebuilding. As for me, I plopped my sewing machine down on the picnic table under the front oak and knocked out the hat for my son's Halloween costume, complete with appliquéd spots and long floppy ears. I had sewn the shirt yesterday, so now I'm totally done, thank god. Let's just hope the little guy doesn't have a massive growth spurt between now and the 31st.

In huge news, while I was inside the house playing around with the bub, the hub swears he saw a bobcat. Now, his brother shot one out there many many moons ago, but that was the only bobcat they've ever seen out there in 50 years. (My brother-in-law claims he thought it was a feral cat at the time, thus why it is now dead and stuffed up on his friend George's wall.) The likelihood that what he spotted today was actually a real live bobcat is small, but still... it could have been one, and that "could have" is good enough for me. How awesome would that be?... coyotes, ring-tailed cats, skunks, roadrunners, rattlesnakes, jack rabbits, armadillos, deer and now a bobcat. It doesn't get much cooler than that for spotting Texas wildlife.

Later (inside) we all watched the original Dr. Doolittle with Rex Harrison, which I remember loving as a kid, though I didn’t recall the entire plot, just the two-headed llama and the giant pink sea snail. It was fun to see it again with an adult perspective and get all the sexual innuendos and lame drunk Irish jokes. At more than two and half hours long with music that less than sparkles by today's standards (not including Talk to the Animals which is still a great song), I have to suspect audiences had longer attention spans back then. And what was the deal with Rex? Could he not sing? Because he talks the songs instead of belting them.

Anyway, still love that swinging 60s vibe, and though the kid didn't sit through the whole thing, he still dug the animals BIG TIME. The best part about it was the opening credits. Really great retro illustrations of animals. I shot some crappy, black-lined footage, but I was hoping it might prompt somebody to go out and rent it themselves based solely on the awesomeness of the graphics. (Plus I am still practicing, so even crappy to OK.) Check it!