Welcome to our new Wednesday Your Pet blog posts! Today we feature Irwin and Figaro. Irwin, an Australian Bearded Dragon, and Figaro are housemates, but a nose-to-nose meeting with Irwin probably isn’t on Figaro’s list of “My Favorite Things.” Owner of both animals, Cody Stevenson, tells us that most Bearded Dragons are brown and tan,…
Wild Word Friday! When anyone talks about WALE, I think about cloth, like corduroy, with raised ridges that are called WALEs, but I recently discovered a “new to me” meaning. In Scotland the noun WALE means a choosing or a choice or something chosen as best. As a verb WALE means to select. This meaning…
My parents tell me that I don’t remember my first puppy. Her name was Sniffer, and she was the first of three Sniffers in my life, after Sniffer came a multitude of cats and dogs, a turtle (Seedy) a bird (Pip, after the beloved canary in Little Women, although my Pip was a parakeet) and…
Our February 2012 Free Book is 33 Men, “Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners”. From the cover blurb, “Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of this remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and heroism. Based on more than one hundred interviews with the miners, their families, and…
Wild Word Friday! Once upon a time, the English had a law that required a homebuilder to get a permit before he could build eaves that allowed water to drip on land owned by someone else. Not only were eaves sometimes a controversial matter in ancient England, in the 1600s they gave us the verb EAVESDROP,…
About You! I’m a brunette. Well, I was a brunette. Now I’m a brunette thanks to the skills of my colorist. (No, this is not me. I wish it were!) For a while, I actually went gray, and I was fine with that until the first time someone “carded” me as a senior citizen. Who? Me? Wait a…
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