This kinda gives you a warm fuzzy doesn't it.

With all of the crap we are bombarded with it's nice to know that this many people showed that they care.

https://www.carepages.com/carepages/NoahScottBiorkman/updates/2427545?client_code=chmkids&ipc=mcr

Wow!! Thanks! Please STOP!!!!

It was a cold fall day a few years ago when I had a real deep fear race through me.

Suzy’s enclosure was new the final touches were still in progress. The door to Suzy’s enclosure was in need of some fine tuning and a large enough latch that… Read full post »

 i have to share this email i got today.

 rube goldberg would be proud

HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on
November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over
the Netherlands .

Take a look at HEMA's product page - just wait a couple/… Read full post »

natalie not pandantic http://open.salon.com/blog/natalie_b posted "ashes and snow" my love for animals made me search further. I found another sight with many of the photos and a video (link below).

I have a satagory called 'manditory viewing' this certainly fits.

Thank you Natalie! this expres… Read full post »

Just a sort while ago I wrote about an Anglo/Saxon treasure hoard that was found in England.This time it was another metal detector hobbyist that found something.  He only had his detector for five days. This is the first thing that he found.  

The site link below has a video on… Read full post »

There are stores. discount stores, re-sale shops, and grocery stores. 

This is IMHO the most exclusive one and the one that created what we came to call the Department Store. It's Harrods Knightbridge store in London.

I just received their latest Email. In it is a new feature. One th… Read full post »

One of my favorite websites belongs to Timothy Hughes, Rare and Early Newspapers.

This months catalog has in it THE NEW-HAVEN GAZETTE; and THE CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE, from September 27, 1787.

In it is a complete copy of The United States Constitution. It is one of the earliest publications of it for… Read full post »

the offical Canadian welcoming beaver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLEG8xsOs

It's hard to believe more people didn't stop.

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The pictures in this article are public domain. I wasn’t aware enough to realize that I was witnessing something important enough to take any. What I realized later was that I had seen a Beaver measuring, leveling, making plumb her art work. Her work is representational, figurative, abs… Read full post »

One summer day I was sitting outside Taz’s enclosure giving him some attention while giving myself a break from the human world.

We talked for awhile about the weather and the missed opportunities to catch various small furry and feathered things. He was famous fo… Read full post »

The volunteers at the nature center had heard that Taz the Bobcat was coming but nothing more. The old Coyote enclosure was going to be his.

He got a new dog house with removable top so the ‘servants’ could clean it easily. A few logs to climb on and… Read full post »

This is a happy hello. 

My wife and I took one of our cats with us to the nature center quite often. Dusty was a typical rescued pound cat, not a specific breed other than to call her an American Shorthair. She was, my wife swears by this,… Read full post »

Here's Taz a Bobcat. This is actually an old picture of him. He has always been a pet and was declawed when the Howell Conferance and Nature Center adopted him.

Evidentally there are states that allow Bobcats as pets, this isn't one of them so when Taz's owner was transfered… Read full post »

 Anglo Saxon treasure hoards

Staffordshire, England

Oxfordshire, England 

I’m not jealous. I’ve never won a cent from the lotto. Casinos take my money as fast as I can stuff it in the machines. My luck could change or at the very least I wouldn’t have heard about the $%^$&… Read full post »

Of course I should have waited to post this today instead of a few weeks ago, but that would have required thought. 

Flying salve or Why Halloween witches are green and ride brooms

Every Halloween I find myself telling someone about the fact and fiction of witches in flight. I’ll sidestep… Read full post »

There used to be a Detroit Free Press columnist named Bob Talbert that wrote a regular feature called ‘things I learned looking up other things’. This is one of those things.

I’ve heard the phrase ‘wet blanket’ used to describe a person that spoils the fun all of my life… Read full post »