Our hamster babies were born in the top part of Snuggles’ cage, and not knowing what else to do for our new charges, we put some bedding up there and crossed our fingers that Snuggles would know what to do to keep her babies safe. Luckily, Snuggles knew what to do–she piled the bedding around the babies to keep them […]
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Mark. He wanted a hamster pal. So he went to a local pet store and bought a cute, fuzzy, male hamster. Mark named him Little Buddha. A better name for Little Buddha was Little Biter. He mistook fingers for food and bit both Mark and me. A
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The shopper in my family is Mark, and a few weeks ago he received in the mail the coveted 30% coupon from Kohl’s which he, of course, had to use. He came home from Kohl’s with a new blue and white shirt that he liked so much he thought my dad might want to get one, too.
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By now, you’ve probably come to realize that I like critters, and I like them big and small, furry and feathery. But I apparently haven’t been very clear about one thing: I like outside critters to be outside and inside critters to be inside. See, one morning about a month ago, I went down into my
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For over ten years, the left side of my garage had been occupied by a 1965 Jaguar, and the left side of my garage by Mark’s winter-sensitive diesel cars. Oh, I know my previous blog posting included me oohing and aahing about the beautiful crystals that had formed on my windshield, but on that same morning it just didn’t seem
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Just when I was getting really, really, really sick of wintry weather, I awoke to find something absolutely breathtaking on the windshield of my car. I shot the photo with Mark’s point-and-shoot camera before sitting in my car for a moment to contemplate things. I was at once bummed that I had to scrape the window and go
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Many of you missed Alma College’s First *Algae Art Gallery Showing and probably shouldn’t have because it’s not every day that someone takes beautiful photographs of algae, and it’s even less every day that someone has such photographs as part of a college art gallery. In fact, Mark and I figured there wasn’t another other
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What amazes me about winter storms is that critters still manage to find a way to get by. Of course, some critters have it easier than others. Like this mourning dove. The snow was coming down and the bird landed on the deck railing–which I brushed off now and again during the storm–and he just
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This was Mark’s Valentine’s Day present. Dusty and Little Dipper noticed Mark’s present, so Mark put it on the floor to see what they would do. Immediately, Dusty sniffed the head while Little Dipper sniffed the rear; then they swapped places. After poking the toy to see if it would squeak, Dusty picked up the toy
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His name is Lincoln and he’s lying in a Reeboks box in our freezer because he had the audacity to die in the dead of winter. And the last time Mark tried burying an animal in the dead of winter, Sox, the ferret, came back to life in the form of a skull that showed
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