Thank you, everybody, for trying to help me identify the "guard creature" at our homestead in the Okanogan. It suddenly hit me this morning, while I was reading your comments. An "m". It starts with an "m" I remembered. A...MARMOT!

I found this picture on the web....a yellow-belled marmot in Yosemite Nat'l Park. Looks identical to our "guard-marmot" in the mountains of Central WA. Click on the picture if you want to learn about this obscure creature ("obscure" in the fact that I never heard of them before).

Wordless Wednesday is brought to you by TIANY! I'm not on my computer so I can't put up the cute graphic. But click on TIANY and you'll find more WWs.

Some folks have "Guard Dogs" for their properties. We have a "Guard . . . ___________" on our 14-acre homestead.

It's Wordless today because I can't for the life of me think of what this creature is called. Help!