Nature/Cats
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Squirrel!
The difference between the Gray Squirrels and the Douglas Squirrels is that the Grays come up to the patio door, look in, and say "Hello? Hoomans? The peanut feeder appears to be empty!" They also stare right in at the cats and go "nyah nyah nyah". (The Dougies basically ignore the cats.) Continue reading
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Blog Action Day 2007
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future. Continue reading
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How to Catch a Mouse
I recently ran across a write-up of an elegant and humane catch and release” method for ridding your home of unwanted house guests of the rodent variety… Continue reading
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A Rose By Any Other Name
Scientists are trying to put the fragrance back into hybrid flowers. Continue reading
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Watching Elephants in Africa
I’m sitting at my desk watching elephants play and drink at Pete’s Pond in Botswana, half a world away. Earlier there were a lot of fat birds and several deer of one sort or another. … I’m watching the National Geographic Wild Cam. Continue reading
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Day Trippin’
We took a long day trip today (nearly 11 hours all told) to drive up to the North Bay for the Leopards, Etc fund-raiser and Open House. We were up by 8 and left the house a bit before 9. We headed up 19th Ave and bought toasted bagels with cream cheese & lox (and… Continue reading
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Marshmallows???
Rich said they must be saying “marshmallows?”, so I went up and got some marshmallows, peanuts, and dog biscuits and went out on the upper back porch…. Then I left the rest of the biscuits next to the feeder and went back in. After I went in, I reopened the cat door from the screenporch… Continue reading
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