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Container Gardens, renewed
This weekend I wanted to get outside and do something, and I also wanted to be productive, so I decided to pull out all of the empty pots that used to be my container garden and redo them. The flowers died over the summer and fall because we had an unusually hot and dry season.…
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Flowers and Dancing Sea Creatures
Today was a nice day and I wanted to be outside so I went to the garden store and bought potting soil and some annuals (okay, a lot of annuals) and I remade all of my container gardens. The pots are now in groupings on the front porch (where I am better about watering, and…
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Life Lessons from the Zoo
I realized today that I have learned several important Life Lessons from my time spent at various zoo and animal-related places. Here are some of them. Easy humor is not the same as smart humor and usually not clever or original. Put some thought into it. (Just today I got the oh-so-clever line, “And what…
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Playing with autocorrect
Let’s have some fun with my phone’s autocorrect, shall we? My computer and I are having a fight tonight so I’m posting this from my phone. I’m going to tell you about my day and not fix the things my autocorrect feature says… starting now: Today I went to the commissary to get a few…
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Movie disappointment turns out to be fun anyway
Tonight I had passes to the premier of Chimpanzee, the new Disneynature movie for Earth Day. Well, I got there with my friend and we discovered that a bunch of “Disney people” (I’m assuming the ones from Aulani) had all “RSVPd” (which wasn’t an option even offered to us) and the theater was full. Disappointing.…
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Finding Art in the Everyday: week 15 of 2012 in pictures
This week has been filled with art in surprising places. This first picture from Monday was hanging in a “gallery” at one of the local frozen yogurt shops, where about 25 drawings by 4 and 5 year old kids were featured. This one was far and away the best, as it depicts an alien family…
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Sentient DVR UPDATE
So, remember a couple of days ago I posted about how either the cats were DVRing things for me or that the DVR itself might have become sentient? Well, if you recall, one of the shows I’d set it to record was Psych. After discovering that it hadn’t recorded any of those episodes for the last…
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Rainbow cupcakes
Tonight I baked rainbow cupcakes for the tea party tomorrow. It’s a Mad Hatter tea party and what better thing than crazy, mixed up cupcakes for such a thing? Here they are. And a close view of the inside. This one didn’t have much pink in it, but some of them do. It just depends…
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Vog is in the air
I’ve been feeling just plain YUCK all week, but I made it into the zoo this morning (just for the morning), went to a presentation on stress levels in zoo animals that are being transported (and ways to reduce said stress), and was getting ready to leave when I heard someone mention that the news…
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Random Questions from blog prompters
I was stumped on what to write tonight, so I went to a random prompt generator and got some random questions. 1. You are forced to flee from your home and relocate 2,000 miles away. You can take only what you can carry in your arms. What will you take? Cats, phone, external hard drive (with…
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