well, miss crabapple is back at it. and i caught her in the act.....with my camera in hand. for most of last week it was rainy and cold and all she was able to manage was moving her finds from the yard onto the porch.
but today, during our sale at the studio, i saw her struggling with a bag full of plastic. i went outside and found the items she had already managed to get into the yard. but she was working with all her might to finish dragging the rest of the bag into the yard. she had made it to the driveway....and who knows where she found it and how far she'd already dragged it.

crabby brought a couple things today. along with newspaper. the first pic of the mask is exactly as she had dropped it. i turned it over in case it wasn't clear what it was. i would have loved seeing her coming down the sidewalk with that. then i guess she thought we needed help cleaning up all the garbage she brings so she found an empty garbage bag.

tom cleaned up the yard today, so all crabby's treasures got trashed. but when tom went out to carry the bags of leaves to the driveway, he called me. crabby had just brought her latest find. a rolled up tensor bandage. here's her loot. and herself, post-hunt. oh crabby!

there's been alot of garbage the past couple of days. the garbage and paper is large and difficult to maneuver, so is interesting to see her hauling it down the street. but just a photo of a piece of dirty newspaper or a frozen raspberry bag (there's one of those under the crabapple tree right now) isn't so interesting. but i found a couple items....a glove, a sock and a little plastic candy ring without the candy!

crabapple is our cat. she is old. she is deaf. she is demented. and she is a thief. she steals shamelessly throughout the neighborhood and brings it proudly to our yard....aiming for the back porch, but often content to drop her treasure as soon as she's on our property. and her treasure consists of functional items, garbage, newspaper, clothing, underwear, gloves, shoes.....the list is endless. over the last dozen years i've wished i had a photographic collection of her collection. so i'm finally doing it and sharing it here on her very own blog. crabapple's own blog devoted to her pilfering and thievery.these are the things in our yard today. a scarf on a hanger with a pricetag still attached. and a child's school certificate. a football. a bunch of gloves and socks.