While Lisa and I are in New Zealand, I don’t know if there will be time to blog, or even if I’ll have access to a device so I can, but I will be posting images to Facebook from time to time so you can follow our doings there. I will be taking a […]
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Two more people are reading my newest manuscript. I expect to hear back from them by Monday. If it passes muster with both, I may be able to publish it in a Kindle version before I leave for NZ toward the end of next week, if Lisa can finalize a cover for it that
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Among the things I’ll be packing for my two-week trip to New Zealand are several handfuls of weta “feeding dishes.” Yes, they’re plastic bottle caps.Helen told me that weta keepers are seeking bottle caps from which to feed their wetas, so I started collecting them about a month ago. I think
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I wrote a new book over the weekend. (NO AI. I never use AI to write anything!) Three beta readers have it in hand, and two of them have already given it two thumbs up, so I asked their permission to use abbreviated versions of what they said in the front of it under Advance
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On Christmas Day 1957 (or maybe 1958), “Santa Claus” surprised the Smith family with two horses, Sugar Babe and Stormy. Me on Sugar Babe in my robin’s egg blue cowboy outfit, Laurel on Stormy the morning we got horses for Christmas Jessie Haire and me on Sugar Babe, Jackie on Stormy,
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Sometime during the time we lived in Cle Elum from 1961 to 1972, I rescued and raised a little field mouse named Skippy. She looked almost exactly like the one you see above next to the headline, but she was much smaller at first and significantly darker. I called her Skippy because she
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Bursties was aptly named, but I didn’t know it when I named her. I named her Bursties because she popped — appeared to burst — all over the place as a kitten, as healthy, happy kittens always do. But she lived up to her name later on, too, despite settling down into a more
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For the next several posts, I’m going to be reminscing about some of my favorite animal-related memories of all time. Dreyfuss Leopard leapt into my thoughts tonight When I volunteered at Cougar Mountain Sanctuary (CMS) in the late 1970’s, there were some big cats there that I was able to take for walks,
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I have a new mantra: “I don’t mind.” I developed it as a result of reading two books by Niebauer and by remembering J. Krishnamurti’s comment, “I don’t mind what happens.” The new mantra means one of two things to me “I don’t allow my mind (left brain) to fret needlessly.”
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