cute

I’ve had an evening of unadulterated cute.  First, Chopper and I watched all the special features on my newly arrived WALL-E special edition DVD, followed by the movie (for the fourth time, yeah).  It is my favorite movie of all time.  Yep.  It sure is.

Chopper had Paisley with him during the movie and at the end, I decided that it was time again for a feeding frenzy of mealworms.  Mmm.  Paisley sort of fell off Chopper onto the down throw I’d been using and stayed curled in a ball.  I fed her some mealworms off a spoon (what, spoiled?) and then busted out the camera.

Tell me this isn’t stupendously cute.

More in her photo album on Flickr.

I bought 500 live mealworms yesterday with the intention of feeding them one by one to Paisley.  (Dexter isn’t a terribly big fan of live food.)

$8.50 was a bargain for the amount of entertainment Chopper and I have gotten out of the worms thus far, and we’ve only used maybe two dozen of them.  Mwahahahahahahaha.

We got video of the carnage for your amusement (more on Flickr).

Domo-pumpkin, originally uploaded by scpetrel.

I can’t take credit for this creative effort, but isn’t it fabulous?  This is our team entry for the pumpkin decorating contest at work.

The commentary is hilarious, too.

She follows in the pawprints of Tenzing, who was also featured on the site.

We have had a small population of very tiny, nimble lizards living in the house over the past few weeks.  I find them charming rather than creepy.  When I first spotted them, I saw three near one of our window air conditioners and they were probably an inch and a half long max.  I’ve now seen several, progressively larger but still wee, around the apartment and even one on the doorknob as I was coming home from work yesterday.

I found one today and he or she was courteous enough to stay put long enough for me to take a few photographs.  Our little guests are Mediterranean geckos, an invasive but harmless species that tends to live in walls.  (Surprise!  I knew that already.)

If they eat bugs, they can stay.

On a separate note, Tropical Storm Hanna is passing just to the east of us, and we’re fine.  Conditions are going to deteriorate as the evening wears on but we’re tucked in for the night.