I really like the way you draw your environments. Very classical!

Is that a fallen can or toilet paper. One is easy to use and the other will require special tools.

Looks like a jar of peanut butter.

More than likely it IS a jar of Peanut butter. I was originally thinking Pickles.

You know that Peanut butter is probably the most nutritious thing in the bag.

i can see this happening very easily.. VERY nicely done picture..

Awww, poor thing.

Shouldn't that be 'Yotemite National Park in this case? >_>

I thought I had it listed as Yosemite National Park. What'd I do wrong? (I chose that park because the coyotes there are very brazen and "Used" to people. They'll run at the sight of lone humans approaching, but ignore standing cars and buses.)

Nono I mean it as a joke, 'Yote, short for coyote, so we get 'Yotemite National Park. :) Sorry It just sprang out at me, guess I have a weird sence of humour, thankfully not a harmful one! Just seemed appropriate since they're all coyotes.

NOW I noticed the spelling. Sometimes I can be as "Sharp" as then pounds of wet leather and a bowling ball.

Dammit, my beer was in that bag!

Ah! That explains why the coyotes have been particularly noisy these past few nights.

I'd bet that the thief is the last one they ever think of as the as the one doing the theft .

I like that idea! I can see how it might come to be that campers start blaming "Homeless" vagrants who invade the camps at dusk for anything they can carry away, and yet nothing but large coyote tracks are found around the scene of the crimes. (Some wag might even guess that the culprit is wearing stilt shoes with coyote paw prints in order to cover his tracks.)

pst write it hinthint

I'm digging all these centauroids, but is Yosemite in Northern or central California? I always considered it more central, used to go camping in Mammoth every year which is essentially on the more inland side of Yosemite. Not that it matters at all, I guess I just wanted to pick nits while telling you how I'm enjoying this little cache of work from a month back.

Yeah. I guess it'd be best to say Yosemite is like in Northern-Central California. It's almost in a straight line to the East from Sacramento, which is the state capitol. If I remember correctly, Mammoth is just a little to the South of that area. Mammoth is the remnant of a geological "Hot Spot" which may be connected to the massive Caldera that's now Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. For awhile there it looked like some sort of geologic "Event" was due in Mammoth as the ground was rising and falling like at a rate of a few inches a year, but it's settled down since then. The original "KA-BOOM!" that came from the Mammoth area created an ash cloud that covered most the continental US. Of course that was like hundreds of thousands of years ago.

You know, I actually remember most of that from the various trail markers around the hiking trails in the area. Odd that I don't remember much from two weeks ago, but twenty years is nothing.

Now I live in Chicago, so it's a little more difficult to get out that way. I miss it quite a bit, so thanks much for taking me back this evening ;)

My sister goes to my dad's old farm on a daily basis to care for the crits. there and she takes a couple of heavy duty handled plastic bags of food with her. She tends to set them down at one of the edges of the drive where there's tall grass and some good sized bushes past the grass then checks on the "kids" first then comes back to the bags to start feeding. One day, after checking on one of the pen "kids" first, she came back and one of the bags (a "chow" bag) was AWOL. She looked around for a few minutes and finally found it "stashed" away in real tall grass at the edge of the bushes. There's raccoons around the place so we figure they snagged it while she was away and did their best to keep it from being found. She tells me she could feel their glares as if they were "saying" "Hey! We stole that fair and square! No taking it back!"

I think I told you about the "Tag Team Raccoons" that would steal the chat chow boxesfrom the garage when I was living in Azusa, right? That's one of the reasons I like to cast raccoons, ferrets and other "Masked" critters as brigands, thieves and sneaky types in my stories. Not that they're all "Bad guys" mind you, but the dislike for raccoons goes way back to time before the White settlers took over the country. In Mexico for example, glyphs on Aztec storage structyres were translated to read, "Woe to the ring tailed creature who walks with the feet of a man." No doubt raccoons if one has ever seen their paw prints.