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Category: Critters
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A new weekend is knocking on the door and I feel like I just said goodbye to the last one…it was a whole month's worth of faces, fun, and emotion packed into a few short days. It was a weekend of family and friends - Tom's brother Kenny and his wife Cathy drove in from Wichita, Kansas on Thursday. Their future…
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I'm not a country girl. I might live in the country, and I'm not afraid of the dark or walking down a country road alone, or tarantulas. I know how to twirl a stick in front of me to clear unseen spider webs from my path, and to check for scorpions and snakes when I lift…
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That's what we were all wondering when Daniel carried the baby squirrel home, curled up in a little ball in the palm of his hand. He had taken the dogs (and Frankie) for a walk. Near the curve, Frankie spotted something in the woods. Daniel and the dogs went to investigate, but before Daniel…
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Scenes from my parents' busy backyard this past weekend…it seems like THE place to be…at least for red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, 'possums, and squirrels…
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More from this past weekend in Houston… First…my parents are kitten-sitting! Fifi is my nephew's kitten (his girlfriend named it.) While he's in Montana working, Fifi's hanging out with Mama and Daddy. It only took a few 'here kitty-kitty"s for her to venture from her hiding place and check me out. Before too long, I was scratching…
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It's been a long time since I smelled that smell – "new car." The first thing I did was climb into the passenger seat of Tommy's new Hyundai Elantra and breathe in deeply. I'm so happy for him – up until now he's only driven used cars…dented, peeling paint, rattling, often no air-conditioning or radio. He never complained,…
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I had big plans for yesterday morning – things to catch up on, maybe even get ahead. I certainly got up early enough, but before I knew it, it was time to leave for work, and nothing I had planned to do was done! Does anyone else ever get the feeling that someone is playing tricks on…
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The puppy was weak and scared - it takes a while to recover if you go two weeks without eating, and I didn't even want to imagine what he had encountered in his young life to make him so scared of venturing away from the house to the road. But Charly was counting on our walk. "C'mon, puppy, it'll be…
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I woke to the sound of rain outside my window this morning and it's falling outside the window beside me now. It stopped long enough to start a walk with my fellas (Max, Charly, and Frankie) but started back up again before we got back home. But they didn't seem to mind it and I…
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