You can tell the people that don’t get to go to football games very often, because they get to the game really early, look at their tickets, look around the stadium, look at their tickets again, then wander around the seats for a while and plop down next to an old lady. Here’s my dad, Mark and […]
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I had a few people email me for a status of some of the bad things mentioned in a previous posting, and, not to sound impatient or anything, but that blog started with the death of Caramel the mouse, and guess what? She’s still dead. The blog posting also included the death of Hoppie, the
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This time of year, hundreds of Canada geese stop in to our lake each day for a wee nap and a bite to eat . They approach in the shape of a V or long row, land on the water, and then slowly spread out for a while. Many also walk around on the grass,
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When I first sat down to write this week’s blog posting, my intention was to celebrate the passing of the last warm days in Michigan until probably May. It was to celebrate happy things like garter snakes taking in the last of the sun’s warmth a few days ago. This one was all smiles, too.
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Amongst the wee problems Mark and I endured recently was the deflation of a brand new tire on my car, and we took that as a sign that we shouldn’t drive anywhere for a while. So, we hunkered down and missed the annual sandhill Crane Fest held October 8-10, and took a week to build up the
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My troubles began about three weeks ago with the death of a mouse named Caramel that cost us $75 while we were on vacation a few months back because our do-good mouse sitter, Melissa, took Caramel to a pet store vet. It was the right thing to do, of course, because Caramel had itched herself
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The thing about working for the Department of Natural Resources and Environment is that some of my coworkers create publications about the environment, and sometimes they need photos. A couple of weeks ago a coworker asked if I had any photos of “aquatic vegetation showing the roots underwater,” and after explaining that I had not
During the first week in September 2009, a giant white bird the size of a great blue heron appeared on our lake. I grabbed my camera, drove a quarter of a mile to the neighborhood apartment complex on the north side of the lake, and snapped a few lousy photos as the bird flew off to
I haven’t told this story to anyone. But after many years of sleeping with strange animals, I had to finally confess. I have slept with an orange dog. It came from Pet Smart and it was Dusty’s reward for putting up with being washed, trimmed and having his nails ground. See, Dusty loves his new
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When my brother said that he’d like to spend part of his Michigan vacation at a county fair, I have to admit that the first thing I thought of was being 7 and nearly barfing while riding those flying swings that go round and round. I remember little else of my first fair except being
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