Archive for the 'Nature' Category

Mouse Olympics
May 21, 2008

by MaryBeth
     You’ve gotta love wildlife.  When you live in the country they live with you.  And you know what they say, Love Your Neighbor.  We park our cars on the grass.  We live off a dirt road, up a dirt driveway, and we park on the grass.  This is apparently a huge invitation to [...]

The Two Dog Love Knot
May 9, 2008

by MaryBeth
 
 
When I lived in Alaska I had a dog.  Sky was half wolf and half husky and he was probably the smartest dumb dog I ever had.  He could play dumb better than Gracie Allen.  Oh for pete’s sake, she was an actress; how OLD am I?  Anyway this dog could make you think [...]

The Tree
May 7, 2008

 
by MaryBeth 
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     I just love insurance.  That seems like such a win-win situation.  May as well be playing the craps table in Atlantic City.  No wait, those odds are better.
     You see, out at the farm, we have a dead tree next to our house.  It’s a big tree.  A real big tree.  We wondered [...]

Great Weather For Ducks
April 28, 2008

by MaryBeth

     I have a thing for ducks.  Unfortunately our 9 huskies had a thing for ducks too.  They liked theirs plump and slow.  So as long as we had the huskies, we had a moratorium on ducks.  As the sled dogs grew older, we grew closer to ducks.  As the last one met his [...]