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Would like to post this picture of Taco, happy mini-celebrity in our new town home complex. Hello to all my old friends on this now-massive forum. I love you guys! :)

We are here in Puerto Rico where Emmy is working a summer internship collecting data on meteors from the observatory at Arecibo. We brought Leslie and Anthony, as well as Leslie's boyfriend and our French exchange student. It is lovely, and tomorrow Emmy will show us around the observatory...

Well, in an amusing twist of irony, my husband fell in love with a couple of kittens living in his apartment complex in Miami. He sent me photos and asked if he could bring home the white one, who is deaf. Of course, catlover and sucker that I am, I decided Caspar shouldn't be parted from his...

I'm pretty sure you all know it's Yvonne's birthday today. There was a reference to it in another thread, but that is hardly sufficient for our resident Tortoise Master, Cheerleader, and Birthday Announcer. I don't have a "card" for you, but here are some smilies to convey my warmest wishes...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10404251.stm Just saw this today in the paper and thought it a heartwarming story. :D

So I was just out in my back yard trimming flowers while Taco waded happily in large circles in the grass, and I looked up and saw a fox in my neighbor's back yard, about 10 yards away from me. I told it it better leave my tortoise alone and it walked away, but later before I came in I looked...

OK, how about a loud, whiny bee-drone-pitch cheer for the United States Soccer Team?! Woot, woot! Coming back from a 0-2 deficit at half-time to draw 2-2 (and that was a seriously questionable call that disallowed our third, winning goal)!! R-E-S-P-E-C-T!! That's what it's all about...

OK, so I am going to comment on the big match today. I think the U.S. showed they are a respectable contender. England better look to converting their chances. Robert Green is a very good keeper for West Ham and does not deserve all the "credit" for bobbling that shot from Clint Dempsey--it...

OK, I thought I'd just start with a big old impossible premise...:P This is how Taco's enclosure looks this summer so far. I'm thinking of building a spiral ramp up to the birdbath so she would have a water feature like Pio does...what do you think? Am I reaching too far or can I achieve...

I can't help it. [hr] Crap. I didn't cut the song off after the video's 1:10 run. I am still learning Movie Maker. Sorry.

So after four years of hard work and endurance, Brock Logan graduated with Academic and Athletic honors (20th and 2nd, respectively) in his class of 1001 Air Force Academy cadets. On Tuesday night the members of his squadron were commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants; Fred administered the oath...

Well, we may have finally found the solution to Taco's hourly disappearing acts! It's two bright-colored pipe cleaners twisted together around her "waist". :P I just hate to keep her in her pen all the time...she so clearly loves to explore and will toddle all over the yard, checking...

Don't know if you all have already seen this. My son is not in it, but he knows the guys who put it together. This is a good amateur production of life at the Air Force Academy. They even got the superintendent to participate (that's him doing the swing dance with his wife). :D...

So today was gorgeous, and I let my pumpkin out to romp and frolic, and I stopped doing yardwork to just enjoy watching her for awhile, and she was using her front leg to dig at the grass...and then she started eating it!! Like a bloomin' Sulcata! Here's the proof: She didn't seem to...

I just wanted to post that I love the photo of Isaac smiling down on my computer from his spread on the TFO calendar for April 2010! :D Our record-holding, champion pooper up close and personal. :P

So most of you know that Brooke (alfiethetortoise) and I took a road trip last week. Brooke and her daughter Ava first spent a week at Disneyworld in Florida. Then they flew to Denver in the midst of one our wonderful spring blizzards. We held a mini-celebration of Brooke's 25th birthday...

I knew I shouldn't have shared the story of Bob ramming the corner of his shed with Taco! Now she thinks she needs to emulate this naughty behavior! I returned home from an awards ceremony, and just look at what I found!! The little stinker had bulldozed her moss plant right into...

So I was subbing in my favorite 4th grade classroom last Tuesday. In the middle of the afternoon we take a "brain break" when the kids have their snack and do an activity like tossing a beach ball. The teacher lets them play a song or two during this time, so I sent one girl over to work the...

OK, I've got two kinds of seeds from carolinapetsupply: broadleaf and chia. I put some moist potting soil into two small square tupperware, sprinkled both kinds of seeds on and then "stirred" them gently into the soil. Then I sprayed a mist onto the top and set them on my plant shelf next to the...

Tyler Stewart wrote: I've always wanted to entertain the idea of either home schooling or private schooling.... I went to public schools and my kid does now, but it irritates me to no end the amount of politics and "compassion for the poor (lazy)" that they are taught there. He's freakin 7...