Oregon A-Team - Part 27

Mocha Catches a Bigger Snake

Post author By Ashton
Post date July 13, 2008
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Mocha vs Snake…

Round 2…
Fight!

Mocha was sitting on my desk looking out the window as she normally does every day. It was still nice and cool outside, so I opened the window so Mocha could stick her head out… The second the window opened: Mocha jumped out of it, landed 10 feet down, sprinted 20 feet into the bushes and a second later came out with a snake:

Ashanna's Mocha gets a snake
As you can see the snake was about as long as Mocha is!
Ashanna's Mocha walks around with the snake
Then she took the snake under our porch to play with it.
Ashanna's Mocha takes the snake inside

After I took that last picture, I brought Mocha inside so the snake could return to it’s life in the hopes of getting large enough to help Mocha and Rosco in the quest to remove all gophers from our land.

And since I’m posting about Mocha, here are some picture of Mocha being adorable:

Ashanna's Mocha sleeps belly up
Ashanna's Mocha hangs out with the wireless router
Ashanna's Mocha sleeps with the computer cords

Hahaha, what a spoiled cat.
-AshAnna

July 4th 2008

This was a great Fourth of July. This was the first time in at least three years that I was not out at Camp Cherry Valley (CCV). We also had Mike Hedge from LA visiting us. Mike is a (very good) photographer, and he took more than 900 pictures while he was here. Here is what we did on the Fourth of July through Mike Hedge’s lenses:

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Here’s some pictures of our house:
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(I brought these green urchin shells home from CCV)
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Here are some of our Animals:
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Our House:
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Time for Breakfast:
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Time to head out…
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To the Lake:
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We took a break and visited the Stanfield’s for a boat and some more photos:
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Then Back to the lake:
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For some water skiing:
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We met up with the Grub-Clubbers at Pizza Hut…
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And went off to do some Sparklers and Fireworks!
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Happy Fourth,
AshAnna

Animals Ranch Snow

Snow in June

So after our slightly rainy day on the 9th, we woke up to snow on the 10th. By the end of 16 hours of non-stop snowing, we had four inches of snow on the ground… and it didn’t go away for until half way through the 12th.

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Here are some of our animals in the snow:
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We also had a bunch of birds taking shelter on our front porch.
Here’s a sparrow that Anna caught mid-chirp:
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Here’s what we’re 80% sure is a hawk:
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He is so fluffed up he looks almost like an owl.

UPDATE 7/6/08:

The picture is of an American Kestrel, the smallest North American raptor. I believe it is a female because the wings are rusty and not blue grey.
~Ian

Enjoy,
Ashanna

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