On cloudy mornings Petey likes to trot across the grassland. Or is that the lala land?
Cloudy monsoon mornings are wonderful and there is a lot of activity out in the grassland near the ol’ guajolote. And then the sun comes out! Smart critters scurry to shade and I am no exception.
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus looks like a combination...
In the early 1990s when this story and song came about I was poking around the West Branch starting at Ajo Road and north...
Ms. Mesquitey discovers a hog-nosed skunk in the hen house and wakes Petey up to share the news.
