"There is no accounting for tastes", said the old woman, as she kissed the cow. This must serve as my disclaimer. I am no epicure, no gourmand. While I would rather have good food than bad food, my idea of going out to dinner is "eat, pay and get out". Rhapsodizing over the delicate blending […]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Boy Scout Troop 272 held a Court of Honor this evening. Scoutmaster Freddy Gentry took 12 Scouts to summer camp at Camp Lewallen in July, and they brought home 42 merit badges, plus a lot of great memories. If you clicked their link above, you can read his journal from camp. Tonight they shared those […]
Has your pet been "wormed"? And does that mean he’s been covered with worms? If you’ve been "slimed", you’ve been covered with slime, right? [See "Ghost Busters"] Most folks mean "de-wormed", or freed of worms when they say "wormed". They mean that a vermifuge has been administered — a drug that will cause those worms […]
As pocket pets go, the hamster can be a little demanding. If not handled regularly, they can become aggressive, and they are great escape artists. On the other hand, they can be mighty cute. Little "Reighty" here had two skin tumors. One looked like an inflamed wart, and the other looked almost exactly like someone […]
I sometimes wonder how the Dingos of Australia and the wild dogs of Africa get around the issue of heat exhaustion. They are built on the same game plan as all other successful canines, but they live, run and hunt in a much less temperate climate. Do they mostly hunt at night? I should be […]
We tend to think of a "spay" as a routine operation. It’s usually routine for me, as I’ve done hundreds of them — I know what I will do first, what I’ll do second, etc. For the patient, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime major operation — a complete hysterectomy, removing the entire uterus and ovaries. Sometimes it’s […]
Between thirteen-hour days, night meetings, CASA volunteer work, and hauling 18-foot spars to Camp Lewallen, I’ve gotten a little behind on my paperwork this week, including the blog. My desk still looks like a mare’s nest, but hey, "A clean desk is the devil’s workshop", and at least the critical stuff is caught up…finally. I […]
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