MIGGEE – THE SURVIVOR This sweet little kitten was a feral cat tamed by Cheryl Nettleton. Cheryl found the kitten under her deck last fall. Cheryl’s daughter and husband, Michelle and Andy, adopted “Miggee” once Cheryl had tamed her. Cheryl says, “Miggee is a pretty talented cat. She can play fetch as well as any…
Wild Word Friday! All the meanings of the word CRAB – a shellfish with pincers, a louse, an unpleasant and sour person – all come to us along various routes from the same Indo-European wordbase gerbh-, which means to scratch. At first that may seem like a strange meaning to have spawned all those various…
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bailey who has won our Martha Stewart Cookie Cookbook!! Elizabeth says her favorite cookie is the snickerdoodle. Yum! Happy Baking, Elizabeth!!!
Wild Word Friday! When I hear the word PALE I usually think of the color of my skin. But there is an older nearly obsolete meaning for the word PALE , which comes to the English language from the Latin word palus, a stake. A PALE was a pointed, narrow, upright piece of wood. Generally,…
Celebrate the Last Week of Summer With OSKI! I hope this photograph of Oski brings a smile to your face. It sure made me smile! And this time of year we can use all the smiles we can get. It’s always hard to say good-bye to summer. Oski’s owner Hillari Delgado, who writes comic romantic…
WILD WORD FRIDAY! When I hear the word BELFRY, I immediately think of churches and the beautiful sound of bells chiming across a sleepy town, so I was surprised to discover that, originally, a BELFRY was a wooden siege tower, used to help soldiers as they tried to scale and break through the thick stone-walled…
Missy and Jake, Stand-up Comedian Doggies Kathy, the owner of Missy and Jake, tells us that her dogs came to their family from the local pound. The picture above was taken the year that they were adopted, and Kathy and her family loved the photo so much that they used it on their Christmas card….
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