The Leaning Cow

I went into Rural King and they were having a special on little animals, so we figured we needed a couple more. Here’s a little buffalo and a little black bear – I couldn’t justify the expense of the big ones – so we have Little Buff and Little Bear, or, for those in the [...]

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How many times have you heard someone say, “I’ll see you in a fortnight.” Probably not too often, maybe not at all. I want to revive it; I want to have people use it again; I want to say it myself, often and with ease. I want it to just fall off of people’s tongues. [...]

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I suppose a lot of people are born not fitting into the holes the world issues very well. Some do a good job of whittling themselves to fit; others carve out the hole to fit them. I think for the most part I have just chosen holes in Jello that stretch this way and that [...]

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Bed bugs = high CF (Creep Factor) Dog =  high WCF (Warm, Cuddly Feelings) Aha! Read this story Garfield. Just like Lassie barking to save Timmy from the well, Radar is saving people from what first got attention as the scourge of New York Hotels a couple of years ago – Bed Bugs. Smaller than [...]

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A definite chill in the air this morning and we have a fire in the den and that means warm and toasty feet and the comforting smell of wood smoke – not so much inside but out by the door when you come in from taking her nibs to school. I decided to bite the [...]

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