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Please vote for (name entered as:) *NY Wildlife Rehab Center* (address:) Llama Rd. Middleburgh, NY to win a grant from the Berkshire Bank’s giveaway: http://www.berkshirebank.com/about_us/in_the_community/berkshire-bank-foundation/help-us-give-away-20000 With the temperatures across the nation dipping into the negative digits, and wind chills making things even worse, we humans are not the only ones having a hard time dealing. In the past week, I’ve received several emails and other notes about people finding wild birds in trouble. The most recent came this morning, with a note about a friend of a friend, who rescued a little bird from the side of the road. Well, Christmas is over, so I can now post photos of everyone’s tootsie-toasters online. I’ve actually already got them in my Ravelry account, but the family doesn’t visit that site, so no chance of them having seen them there. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve taken an interest (in my usual obsessive over the top way) in learning to knit socks. I’ve mentioned Stars and Stripes, our European Starlings, many times in my blog posts. I’ve also mentioned that they talk … and yet, my readers have had nothing but my word to go on as to the truth of that. All that has changed! I’ve finally, after quite a few months of trying to figure out [Click title to read post ...] RAOKA’s monthly theme for November was Beauty. I didn’t think it would be as difficult as it was to spread beauty, but it turned out that I didn’t really have a lot of opportunity to do so. I sent a couple of hand-made e-cards, using my photos, to various friends who sounded like they could use [Click title to read post ...] Socks. I love socks. Not as much as my daughter, who would probably buy a pair a day if she had the opportunity, but I do love socks. I also consider them one of the most useful things to knit. I mean, you can only find so many scarves useful before they start just taking up [Click title to read post ...] I’m sure visitors remember our adventures with the vole. Mister Vole was caught, finally, by a makeshift live trap that the hubby thought up. However, he certainly wasn’t the only rodent house guest, by far. Fast forward to today…. It was relatively early morning, around seven-thirty-ish or so. I started on my normal routine: let the [Click title to read post ...] Photo by Laurie Smith, USDA Anyone who lives in the country probably knows what a vole is. For the benefit of my city-dwelling friends, however, a vole, or meadow vole, is a rodent. It’s larger than a mouse and not quite as cute, and smaller than a rat and not quite as … shiver-inducing. (Not [Click title to read post ...] There’s nothing quite so upsetting, in quite the same way, for both animal communicators, and the clients who are hurting, than having a pet go missing. It is such a difficult process, in fact, that many communicators won’t accept “location work” at all, and I myself am taking a hiatus from accepting new missing animal [Click title to read post ...] I woke with a head full of fuzz this morning. I want to be working on my novel, but thought I would write a blog post first, to flush out the circuits a bit. Knit-Wit Update The past few days have been filled with creative fun. I finished that second scarf, to start with, on November first. [Click title to read post ...] |
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