To answer your emails and texts, thank you, btw, friends, I had a stomach bug.
I'm on the mend. How could I not be when I have such a great nursing staff?
Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This....
I've been sick.
It's not been fun.
I don't want to repeat it again.
~Shelle
On to other news, this is what my life has been like as seen through the love of another dachshund named Milo. (source) (Sorry about it being so wonky text like... If I felt better I'd spend time figuring out where I need to edit their html to fit mine... but I don't, so I won't... it's verbatim from the source, so you can go there for pretty :D)
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| Bonedigger the lion and Milo the Dachshund are best friends. Photo: GW Zoo and Joe Exotic TV |
A 500-pound lion named Bonedigger is best friends with Milo,
a Dachshund. Bonedigger first met Milo and three other Dachshund puppies five
years ago when he was just 4 weeks old.
The pups seemed to instinctively
know that Bonnedigger was mildly disabled (he suffers from a metabolic bone
disease), and they wanted to protect him, according to Joe Schreibvogel of the G.W. Exotic Animal Park
in Wynnewood, Oklahoma.
"The dogs thought it was just a
big puppy and have loved each other since," Joe told TODAY via email. "I also think they know the
lion is not as normal as the rest.”
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Bonedigger
with his "pack" and Park manager John Reinke
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Milo especially looks after
Bonedigger. He cleans Bonedigger's teeth and often imitates Bonedigger's roars.
For his part Bonedigger gets very upset when his pride (or pack) is separated
from him.
Mom is Sick, Newby is Bored
Mom has a stomach virus and Newby was bored... so an empty cup was perfect to keep a boy quiet for a bit.
Molly the Wally Has a Book!
It is available here. Go pick up a copy today!! I just grabbed my copy... time for some summer reading, learning all the gossip from our #1 Celebrity Correspondent.
Wordless Wednesday... Well, Wordless After I Say What I Need to Say
Millie and Walter were right about what was going on in yesterday's pictures... the trees shown are White Ash. These are Louisville Slugger's "trees of choice" to produce wood to make baseball bats. They are also the Emerald Ash Borer's "tree of choice" for noms. They like them so much they'll nom on the tree until it dies. We have ten on our property.... hopefully those ten will be growing for a long time, and never a party buffet for Borers.
Say a prayer, send some good thoughts, for Lily Belle and Muffin as they take their humans, on a two day car ride, back home today.
Wordless Wednesday comes to you from Newby, who doesn't likes his mom to go outside mowing.** The four a.m. posting comes from my nose, which also doesn't like me outside mowing, but for different reasons.
**Not the best pictures of Newbs, but you get the gist of what he is like the rest of the day.
Farm Quiz
The dogs have been resting up from the past weekend getting ready for the long weekend coming so they refused to let me use the flashy beast near them.
As a result I thought I'd quiz you on a subject you've never studied.
Yesterday the arborist came and worked on a specific type of tree on our property. Can you tell me what he did, what type of tree we are trying to keep healthy, and what is trying to make this type of tree sick.
Hint: Batter up!!!
