Tag: wildlife
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Fat Cat, Skinny Cat: How I got my overweight cat to lose weight
For years now, I’ve had a problem: one of my cats was too big. Caspian’s always been a big guy, and has really large paws (mitts, really) and is tall and long… but he’s also bad about clearing his food dish AND the other cat’s if she doesn’t eat quickly enough and I’ve never been…
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Joshua Tree National Park in January
Last week, my sister came to California with me to help me settle back into the new place and to help me out with the errandy type things that always accompany a move, and which are much more easily accomplished with two people. Of course we also did some fun sight seeing (which is also…
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Baby Panda. That is all.
Okay, so as a reward for (finally) having a functional (and neatly organized) closet again, I got myself up earlyish today and went to the San Diego Zoo during the morning BABY PANDA viewing. I’ll just leave this here… I would say that I could just quit the internet for today… but I really ought…
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Wild horses: you may not be able to tame them, but you can sure photograph them!
This past weekend I took a trip to the coast with a friend in search of wild horses. I lived within hours of this place for years but never visited, so this time I was determined to see the horses. The first trip out in my friend’s four wheel drive got us lodged in the…
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North woods trek
Thursday and Friday, J and I took a road trip to the north woods of Minnesota and the town Of Ely (pronounced Ee-lee). We saw a lot of beautiful countryside and visited a couple of wildlife centers. We also stopped at the Dorothy Molter Museum, a woman who lived in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area…
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Thoughts on Chimpanzee (the movie, not the animal)
As this weekend was Earth Day, it was also the opening weekend for the new Disneynature movie, Chimpanzee. And as I have every year, I went with a group from the zoo to go see it. It’s always interesting to go see an animal movie w/ zoo people because we see things with that perspective. So…
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Springtime in Hawaii: week 13 of 2012 in photos
Monday was the first day for which I don’t seem to have a photo, so I’m posting two from Tuesday, 3/27. This is my friend’s backyard.
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The Story About the Beetles
Well, my Christmas tree is finally in its box, in the garage where it belongs. It went there on Saturday. Yes, I know it’s March. Yes, I know Christmas was 2 1/2 months ago. And I tried, I really and truly tried to put it away. December 30th I actually started pulling down all of…
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The places my feet take me: Week 4 of 2012 in photos
I did a lot of walking in the past week and had many encounters with wildlife, some nice and some not so nice. Here are the photos that document my week. 1/23/2012 Last Monday was the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. This was the first year since moving here…
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Cleanest toaster oven EVER: revisited
So, if you’ve been reading my blog a while, you probably remember the Lizard Sandwich episode. If not, well… Here. Go read. So tonight I reheated some leftovers, went into the den to watch “Once Upon a Time,” and then when the show was over I came back into the kitchen with my plate… to…
Joanna Volavka 