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Sabine’s Puppy Up-Date

Sabine’s Puppy Up-Date

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine’s babies are growing and healthy….. They are coming up to three weeks old….. Their eyes are open….. And the little fuzz-balls are just starting to think about eating gruel and soaked kibble….. It’s that super fun messy stage…where they wear more than they actually eat….. Sabine has been a great Mom….. She has produced milk abundantly throughout….. We did pull out some special herbs from our apothecary cupboard…to help her maintain and…

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~Sabine~

~Sabine~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine just may be pregnant….. She’s our happy-go-lucky…(a little bit clueless)…Irish Wolfhound….. It would be her first litter…it would be Acacias’ first litter too….. Where Irish Wolfhounds are concerned…you just never know….. They are both such sweet hounds….. But…neither one of them are intellectually acute enough to hear their own drummer…much less the band….. I think Acacias will forever be the eternal puppy…he has no idea how big he is….. He lumbers along…tail…

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***What If***

***What If***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** In Retrospect………….(hindsight being 20/20)….. What If….. …..all the time…and headache…and worry…and preparations that are put into each year’s Hurricane Season…actually worked as a weight-reduction program?….. What If…all the meteorological angst actually allowed you to burn off some of those extra rolls and chunky bumps?….. I know I’m possibly being illogical….. …..but…What If?….. There would be at least one up-side to each year’s impending Season-of-Doom….. You’d be able so say…”But Hey…I lost twenty-five pounds…so…

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*Rescuing A Doeling*

*Rescuing A Doeling*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It was a seemingly normal Saturday….. In the morning we made a trip to our favorite nursery to buy potted herbs…(for those of you in colder climates…Florida has two growing seasons)….. Herbs haven’t been available in the heat of the summer…and we desperately need cilantro for carnitas…so why not grow our own(?)….. Plus I’d love to have my own rosemary bush…but rosemary needs well-drained soil………….and nothing is well-drained here….. Even though the sun’s…

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~The Dust Of The Sahara Desert~

~The Dust Of The Sahara Desert~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Well…we’re deep into Hurricane Season…and so far…there haven’t been any big storms….. Hurricane Debby wrecked a lot of damage and flooding…in areas that aren’t considered flood zones(?)….. It’s still an enigma…one that everyone is trying to figure out….. But here we sit at the end of August…and we’re squeaking along…quietly keeping our fingers crossed….. It’s the beginning of September that is truly the peak of the active hurricane season…with storms both before and…

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Heat Complaint #563

Heat Complaint #563

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s the last day of July….. I think I might see a brisk zephyr somewhere over that haze-crazed humidity-dripping horizon….. Everything…(flora & fauna alike)…has that same dispirited…middle distanced…unfocused stare….. It’s that zombie-time of the year in sunny sub-tropical Florida….. …..no one wants to be here now….. Maine is looking pretty good….. Some are pining for the Yukon….. Our air conditioner has been stressed to its max…it’s been on again…off again….. …..frozen over…and icy…and…

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*A Snickers Post-Script*

*A Snickers Post-Script*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…this is an odd conundrum….. …..but I thought I should add it in as a footnote….. As I said in last week’s post…Snickers died…after a great deal of care and ministrations….. My older daughter was very committed in trying to nurse both Fatty Patty and Snickers back to health….. …..and save them both….. …..so far Fatty Patty is still vertical and amongst us………….Snickers…not so much….. But added to that…is an additional unfortunate/macabre event……..

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~~~~~Idalia~~~~~

~~~~~Idalia~~~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I had another post planned for today…but Idalia moved into the neighborhood….. Yep…by the time you’re reading this…Idalia…will have decided where she’s going….. …..although I am writing this post ahead of time…Idalia…IS…OUT THERE….. She WILL be doing Something…Somewhere….. …..and she’s cranking away…and growing….. I just heard…the Gulf water temperature (which she will soon be motoring over) is about 90F….. …..”they” (the meteorologists) say the high Gulf water temperature is like rocket fuel for…

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***Beer…It’s Not Just For Breakfast***

***Beer…It’s Not Just For Breakfast***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We all know…..this heat has been brutal….. It’s on-going…it’s unrelenting….. It’s been affecting everybody….. …..All the Flora & Fauna….. The horses are dragging…the ducks are panting…the Irish Wolfhounds refuse to leave the A/C….. …..Mama Pig deals with the heat…by flipping her water tub…and then disappearing in her self-made mud bath….. We are (almost) midway through August….. Fall can’t come fast enough….. We’re trying to make sure everyone one has ample water…all the time……..

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~~~A Discussion Of Swamps~~~

~~~A Discussion Of Swamps~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I’ve lived on this piece of property for over thirty years…I’ve seen it’s evolution…some could say devolution….. In earlier posts…I’ve spoken about the different categorizations of various Swamps…or to be more-socially acceptable…various “Wet Lands”….. Potatoes………….potatoes….. …..(that still loses something in print)….. On closer evaluation I think our swamp has been struggling from a “Cypress Wetlands” swamp to a “Hydric Hammock”….. And now…it’s somewhere in between….. *****(Click Here for Swamp Categorizations)***** *****(Click Here–Wetlands Management…

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