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Happy National Squirrel Appreciation Day 2013! Photos of Some of my Fuzzy Pals

3 Comments / Life, Nature / Amy L Peterson

A few days ago, my local wildlife food store sent me an email offering in honor of National Squirrel Appreciation Day. I’d never heard of such a festive event, so I got online and learned that–according to the National Wildlife Federation– Squirrel Appreciation Day was started by Christy Hargrove, a wildlife rehabilitator from North Carolina. According to […]

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How I Know I’ve Got the Right Guy

1 Comment / Family, Life, Pets / Amy L Peterson

Mark and I are heading to the Amazon in February to go peacock bass fishing, and before Christmas Mark found a guy named Raymond “Dink” Alston who makes Goldrush custom rods. Amongst Dink’s special rods is a 6’2″ Woodchopper heavy-duty action rod that he recommends for peacock bass fishing. Per Mark’s request, Dink added a peacock bass, my name, the date, and he

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Hampy Holidays!

Animals, Family, Life, Pets / Amy L Peterson

For all pet lovers out there, hampy holidays! Enjoy yourself and eat lots and lots. And don’t worry about the little things, like how good you might or might not look. Enjoy your family. And your friends. And look forward to 2013 with the enthusiasm of a hampster.

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Profound Thoughts on Turning 50

2 Comments / Family, Life / Amy L Peterson

After 50 years on this planet, I had hoped to have some really profound things to share with friends, family and people younger than me. You can see for yourself how this panned out: *If dogs are man’s best friend, Dusty is Mark’s best friend and not me. Hm. *If people greeted each other like dogs

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The Buck Stopped Here

Animals, Life, Nature / Amy L Peterson

The problem with having a good digital SLR camera is that sometimes it needs some TLC. Take mine–it’s a Nikon D300 and had a little dust-spec problem I was tired of trying to crop out of photos, and it needed a new rubber cover to replace the one that should be covering the input/output ports but instead

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Codes and More Codes

2 Comments / Life / Amy L Peterson

On Saturday I went about the process of trying to open a wee gun safe I got from my father. It’s a sentimental thing, because my dad was an absolute gun nut, had several safes and well, I wanted to keep one. Now, this might have been a simple thing except for one thing: the

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Migration Suprises

3 Comments / Nature / Amy L Peterson

I love the fall migration, because on fall weekends and evenings, I can look out in my backyard and I might just see something I don’t normally get to see. One evening last week, I saw this bird. In mere minutes, the bluebird was gone. Some people in Michigan see bluebirds year-round, but because I

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When it Rains, it Pours . . . Mynah Birds?

Animals, Life, Pets / Amy L Peterson

I was at work on Tuesday trying to be a good state worker when I got an email from Mark that was rather distracting. He said that Todd, the nice fella that sent our mynah bird by plane three weeks ago, inadvertently mailed us another mynah bird. “Mailed?” I asked. “How do you mail a mynah

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Critters You Might Have Missed in the Great Outdoors

Animals, Life, Nature / Amy L Peterson

This posting is to share a few images from the Great Outdoors taken the last couple of weeks. First, my friend the tussock moth caterpillar. This fella was munching on a milkweed plant. I like its colors, the fact that it looks sort of like a fly I’d use to try to catch a trout, and also because word

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Mynah Bird Likes to Read Books

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It took Little Buddy a little over a week to get out and safely back in her cage by herself, and one thing that helped her along was putting a yellow washcloth on the door of the cage to give it a firmer feel. Once she figured out the yellow wash cloth was safe to land on, we moved the

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