Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Charlie’s ferret Nora was quite the trooper. She was 9 (average ferret lifespan is 5-7 yrs), had cancer and diabetes for the last year, and generally she just kept on truckin’.

In 2003, in the midst of renovations, our neighbor announced “Yo weasel escape!” Sure enough, she’d scurried under some contractor to go explore the big [...]

Every time I see the puppy hiding in and around the flowers, I think of Ferdinand the Bull, who just “wanted to sit quietly and smell the flowers.”
:::sigh:::
What a lovely idea. If only Bruiser would sit quietly and smell the flowers instead of running around like a loon, using Kassie’s ears as handles, and doing [...]

I found this among the Disapproving Rabbits via Birdchick. It’s absolutely mesmerizing. Mind numbing is what I need right now and this did the trick.

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I don’t want to go into too much detail, but it’s been a tough week. Many little things went wrong along with one massive and unforeseen thing.
A terrible accident has taken Zulu way way before his time. I have been more devastated than I could have ever imagined possible by the loss of a [...]

This was Boots yesterday, having decided that his busy cat schedule wasn’t working out for him. Or possibly this was his busy schedule, I’m not sure. Regardless, he really inspired me, and I did much the same thing today.
We, silly people that we are, went and stuck out the entire day Saturday at Jazz Fest. [...]

We went this morning to check out the river and ran into a quite lively bunch of Quaker parrots who were being trailed by some very loud blackbirds.
There’d been a big event the day before that had left behind bags and bags of very interesting garbage that hadn’t yet been picked up.
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Tis the season to replace all the stuff that died over the winter. My favorite Hibiscus guy is gone, alas, but I bought several from his recommended source.
They were decently large, and budded up. They’re at least twice as big as most mail order exotics. In short, they were really good… except that…you know…they’re not [...]

Sunday was quite the busy day. There were Mardi Gras Indians, romps around the city, dinner with friends, shopping for Alison.
 Each of which pales beside something that took about 10 seconds to actually happen. Lunch was being delivered from a local sandwich place, so naturally the dogs went bananas when the bell rang.
This is S.O.P. [...]

Sammy & Kassie follow/are followed by the puppy. Everywhere. He’s also picking up Sam’s vocabulary. She has a vast and impressive range of socializations and soon I’ll have not one but TWO dogs following me around going “Wrrororoooow! Rooow. Mmmumpfh!”
(Translation: Gotta go out! Seriously. Maaaaa! C’mon!” )

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Alison has a new dog. A teeny weenie dog of exactly the sort I said I’d never have. I’m only interested in big dogs, with big barks. I don’t have any sheep for them to herd to earn their keep, but at least they can pretend to be my security system, right?
 What the hell’s a [...]