Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category

Ducks n’ Geese

This weekend we took the boys to visit their grandparents, and we fed some ducks:

Hope you enjoyed your weekend.

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Slow and Steady

We haven’t seen this guy in a while:

I guess the rain prompted him to come out for a visit.

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Summer Beauty

OK, I have been a blog slacker. So sorry to the two of you who read this. But I have taken a slew of pictures and I’m sharing:

One of the best things we did this summer was to plant flowers.
We did it for the boys, especially for the Monkey since he loves science and [...]

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Meet Elvis.

So today was the day…the day Monkey got his gecko.
A crested gecko, to be specific. We prepared last Thursday, by hitting Petco in Hendersonville and getting the setup together. Here’s a pic if you want to see. BHE gets pretty much all the credit for setting this up.
After church and lunch today, we called Aquatic [...]

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Caught in the act…

So, BHE set up a bird feeder in a nice tree next to our house. We’re trying to keep the redbirds and their friends happy, especially since the redbirds have set up a nest in our rosebushes. We appreciate their company. Anyway, BHE has noticed that a LOT of birdseed has been consumed regularly…I blamed [...]

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Expanding

Meet the latest addition to our family – here’s Duke:

Ain’t he cute? We adopted him last weekend. We were told he’s a miniature pinscher/rat terrier mix, and we think that’s probably about right. He’s VERY sweet. Unfortunately, he doesn’t appear to be totally housetrained yet, or in the very least we just have him quite [...]

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And THIS is where I draw the line:

Monkey loves animals.
He obviously loves dogs – we plan to expand our canine family Saturday if all works out to plan, by adopting a miniature pinscher/rat terrier mix (we already have Annie, a rat terrier mix).
He loves our fish, especially the tiger barbs. Right now we have a ten gallon tank housing an opaline gourami [...]

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Never – I mean never – taunt a tiger…

A teenage boy died in S.F. due to being mauled by a tiger. They’re thinking the tiger might have been taunted and escaped from its enclosure by climbing/jumping the wall.
BHE and I used to go to the Knoxville Zoo a lot when we were first dating in college. He had season passes (yearly Christmas  gift), so it was free [...]

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