Recently, I started volunteering with the Rescue 100 Horses Foundation. They’re a group that formed several years ago when a previously well-established Arabian breeding operation went under and left all its horses to starve. The original hundred horses have all been fed up to healthy weights and found homes, but
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Dead Wild Roses: Crafty Update: Salute to Putin Gloves Completed
I set myself a challenge to get these done before the Olympics closing ceremonies, and I did! Filed under: Arts, Humour
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In honour(?) of the Olympic Spirit(TM), my current crochet project is a pair of Salute to Putin gloves. I’ll be able to finish them when the rainbow yarn I ordered arrives. And, below the fold, a Fiona photobomb because I know you want more Fiona. Filed under: Cute, International Affairs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Fiona Plays with Squeakie-Mousie
The mouse contains some kind of electronic accelerometer thingmy that makes a high-pitched beeping/squeaking noise when it gets jerked around. Fiona will chase it until she’s panting. Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cat Blogging, Cute, Fiona
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When I learned Lilith was dying, I felt like my heart was going to implode. The only thing that seemed to keep enough outward pressure was knowing that there would be another cat to love after she was gone, so I became the cause of probably 25% of the web
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Arb and I are now down to only one cat. This is how I’ll remember Lilith Not long after her boneless lying in the sun picture, we started noticing Lilith was losing weight. And then her coat turned nasty like she wasn’t grooming herself properly, so it was vet time
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Cats are such regal creatures, all elegance in motion… and then there’s V at rest. I swear he does have the usual number of legs and joints and bones. Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cat Pictures, Cute Cat, Derp, Vishnu
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Nifty Cloud over our Neighborhood
Since there was hail coming out of it, this can be assumed to be a shelf cloud, not a wall cloud, which would have been found in the rain-free part of the cloud. Apparently I didn’t need to get quite as excited as I did. Filed under: Science Tagged: Alberta
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Shadow is Cute (still)
Here is Shadow, getting a belly rub from the Arbourist. This belly, you can pet safely, but she only shares it with her special people. Filed under: Cute Tagged: Shadow the Shetland Sheepdog, Unabashed Dog Love
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Here is Lilith, our resident evilkitty, enjoying the sunshine. She likes to lie like this, in the corner of the concrete stairs, so she can get radiant heat from two sides at once. Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cat Picture, Evil Kitty, Word to the Wise
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Filed under: Rant Tagged: heartwarming nature crap, weather whinge
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Victory!
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Delights of Spring
Lilith, the resident evilkitty, is normally all black. Not after her ecstatic rolling on the sun-warmed, and very dusty, pavement. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: critters
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stay on target…
(Thanks Mystro for the idea for the post title.) Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: heartwarming nature crap
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Almost there!
Filed under: Humour Tagged: heartwarming nature crap
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not so spring-like after all
This photo was taken in roughly the same spot as the last flowerbed picture. Curse you, Alberta weather! Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Fail, heartwarming nature crap
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another sign of spring
Yesterday, I was worried that the bulbs I planted last fall had died over the winter. Today, it’s like Annie Dillard says in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: they say of nature that it conceals with a grand nonchalance, and they say of vision that it is a deliberate gift, the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Not enough faces, not enough palms
An explosion and/or fire at Shaw Court in Calgary has knocked out a significant quantity of telecommunications equipment, affecting not only bank machines and radio stations, but stuff like 911 service and the program that tells ambulances which hospital they should take a patient to. Calgary Fire Department spokesperson Jayson
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This is not photoshop. What is colon hydrotherapy, you ask? It’s an enormous enema. A Dieticians of Canada publication describes it as follows: Colonic cleansing or irrigation, touted as a treatment for cleansing the colon, involves the insertion of a rubber tube through the rectum into the large intestine. A
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Classical Music Interlude: Shameless Fangirling of Jessye Norman
As I was practicing this evening, there occurred a confluence of events that has cost me not only the remaining hours of today, but also my heart. (1)Working on some Wagner, wondering what the hell “sehr massig bewegt” really means as a tempo marking, so I decided to see what there was on Youtube. (2) […]
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