Two orphaned baby burrowing owls, nicknamed Linford and Christie, have moved into the home of their keeper Jimmy Robinson. The owlets were hatched in an incubator at Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire, and are now being hand-reared by Jimmy.
My latest life goal is to hand raise a burrowing owlet. Because, obviously.
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Steve:
I’m voting for Obama in 2012 because corporations AREN’T people.
I made a vest for my cat Gordon in 15 hours. I’m quite proud of myself, if I may say so.
Photographs taken and © to me, Vargen Johansson.
If I had a math teacher who knitted my life would have been different. No, that’s not it. If I knitted when trying to learn math my life would have been different.
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Photo: Postscrip love (Ravelry)
Pattern: Cottage Slipper Socks (free) Needles: 9 mm
Source: Ifandany (Wordpress)
Projects in Ravelry
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Final pictures. Not only does Ana suffer the indignities of being mom to Frederico (“Kittens are NOT to be eaten!”) but Camille puts a pretty scarf on her.
Ana and Frederico
Ana, the long-suffering Siberian husky, with guinea pig Godofredo and YET ANOTHER foster kitten, Frederico.
Ana, the Siberian husky, with foster kitten Baxter. Baxter was just fine with this. Ana had her own ideas but she knew the rules.
Nick submitted:
In 2007 my wife, a school teacher, gave birth to two premature girls who were born at 3 lbs a piece, and they required an extensive stay at the hospital. Though we were both working, we are under her insurance. Because she was taking a leave (as is her right), her insurance only…
242 I remember comparing the price of gas to the cost of coca cola or any other sugar water. I may just have to do that again.
Oh My God. Stossel’s making sense to me, I think I’m in hell. I can remember the first time I learned the price of gas, many many years ago, 30 some cents a gallon, and I cried out “That’s cheap!” cause even as a child I knew instinctively what it took to get that gallon.
Tired from pulling sleds here in Tampa …
