Sandra Cox's Blog, page 23

Ketch-up Day

 How are you? We are perking along here.

The HH got me this T shirt.  Ever feel this way?

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Pics of The Eternal Garden

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A couple critter pics😊

As you can see, not a lot going on here. What about on your end?

Weekend Wishes

 

Writerly Wednesday AND Did You Know

 What is your synonym, sentence or meaning for:

Example:  That speaker was truly bodacious.

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Did you know that MLK paid for Julia Roberts' birth?

 

For more information:

Julia Roberts' birth was paid for by MLK. Yes, really : NPR

 

Ketch-Up Day

 

 

Did you have a good weekend? Having a good week? 

I'd like to share with you an experience a wildlife rehabber I know had years ago.

She had taken in a litter (passel) of orphaned possums. One of the youngsters became friends with the dog. They ate together, slept together, and played together. Friends.

When it was time to re-home the possums, she took them into the woods and let them go. The little possum who was friends with the dog came back. This happened several times before it finally acclimated to the wilds and wasn't seen again.

A couple of years later the dog died unexpectedly and they buried it on the property. That evening, at twilight, my bud (the rehabber) looked out the window and to her stunned surprise saw the possum sitting on the grave. 

I have to believe it came to say goodbye to its old friend.

ANDThe Eternal Garden pics 
 


 

 

What about you, blogger buds? Got any unusual critter stories? Is your garden blooming yet?

Weekend Wishes

 

AND

Writerly Wednesday and Did You Know

 What's your synonym, example or sentence for:

Example:  The protesters staged quite a ballyhoo.

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Did you know, dogs can sniff out cancer in humans.

 For more information: The science of sniffs: disease smelling dogs :: Understanding Animal Research

Ketch-up Tuesday

I hope you had a grand weekend and your week is off to a great start.

We scattered Penny's ashes in the backyard where she spent many a happy hour. I made a point to have some of them  scattered in my flowers she'd trammeled:)

Friday we went to see the baby boy graduate from the NC Community College Leadership Program he'd participated in. What about you. What did you do over the weekend?

Now back to our regularly scheduled program of cats and flowers 😄

 

That's all for now, blogger buds. Have a week filled with fun and creativity.

Weekend Wishes

 

Writerly Wednesday AND Did You Know

 What is your synonym, definition or sentence for:

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Sentence: Watching the funambulist, high overhead, made his heart rise to his throat as she took one careful step after another.

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Did you know, Charles Dickens belonged to a paranormal society called The Ghost Club?

For more information: Charles Dickens was in a paranormal investigation society called the “Ghost Club.” — History Facts

 

Ketch-up Tuesday

 

How are you?

Last week was sad for us. Penny crossed the Rainbow Bridge. She was diagnosed with cancer recently and it was bad enough, and progressed so quickly, we had to put her to sleep a couple of weeks after the diagnosis. She was thirteen and of those thirteen years we'd had her eleven.   I'd like to share a few of her stories:

When she and Frank were younger and more boisterous, they liked to party down when the HH and I were gone. To this day I don't know who managed to get the door open since it was a regular doorknob, but they would break into the food pantry. Frank would knock the food off the shelves and Penny would cart it to the dining room and they'd chow down.  It got so bad we had to get a dead bolt put on the pantry door.

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She and the neighbor dog used to have races, each running on their side of the fence as fast as they could go.  Frank would even get in on the action but he was usually left in the dust.

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I was appalled to learn that one Thanksgiving when she was staying at the sitter's over Thanksgiving, she  stole the Thanksgiving turkey. (Though, she was generous enough to share it with one of the other dogs.) Luckily, the sitter discovered it before Penny and her partner-in- crime had done much more than waller it to the floor.  

On Penny's last day, her sitter came to say goodbye.

We feel her loss keenly.

RIP Penny. You're missed.