Gabe helping with the laundry. Don’t know how I’d get it done without him. LOL
So how many of you remember how Maddie and Mabel came to live with me? – Here’s your refresher because…
It happened again:
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Gabe helping with the laundry. Don’t know how I’d get it done without him. LOL
So how many of you remember how Maddie and Mabel came to live with me? – Here’s your refresher because…
It happened again:
I don’t have a lot of information except he/she is most likely a Pekin duck, about 6-7 weeks old. Found wandering at a local park/pond. Followed a woman to her car, she brought it home. Needed a good home and I’ve been looking for a third duck. I live in fear of losing one and the other being devastated – they do not do well alone.
We’ll meet tomorrow and see if it’s a match.
What’s one more?
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So this gentleman rescued and released a baby fawn with an injured leg in 2015. The video just melted me. The second video is of the mother deer and her twins still visiting his farm.
A deer doe abandoned one of her twin fawns, the fawn had injured leg and could not keep up with the mother. I do not support keeping wild animals as a pets, but this was special situation. The baby deer was healed and released back to her real mother. Update: The doe and two her fawns is still around, we seen them through the summer and the autumn.
The bears and wolves in the video are incredible. I’d love to know where he lives. His youtube page says his home is planet earth and more specifically the United States. I’m guessing Alaska? His entire page is full of amazing animal stories.
If you click through to YouTube on the first video, he has more videos of raising the fawn. He really did a good job. We have warnings every spring not to think fawns are abandoned because they are alone – Does leave them all day and come back at night. This was not the case and his efforts to reintroduce this fawn to the wild are nothing but heroic.
Those who follow me on the book of faces might have seen the video of the Cat and the Grizzly eating daisies. Same guy.
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https://twitter.com/TheDreamGhoul/status/1121926645215047680
Commenter Joey Maloney sent along two adorable photos of her kitteh, Elvira (Mistress of the Dark). First up, day one at home:
And nine months later.
That is one happy adoption, I’d say.
This is from 1997 but still sweet.
That’s your reprieve from life for the moment.
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Steve Hartman delivers the goods again:
And this local story this morning brought together two stories I remember well, because both were so randomly tragic and then finding out they were actually unique friends was poignant. Sad but sweet story of unexpected friends.
Boulder County pair intertwined in life and death
“Woman killed in Louisville after being struck by tree limb during windstorm.” – April 18, 2018
“Boulder County employee dies following fall at Heil Valley Ranch.” – May 10, 2018.
Those two headlines appeared in the Daily Camera in spring 2018. Neither report mentioned the other, because there appeared to be no reason to link them at the time. Just two unfortunate, but unrelated deaths. It wasn’t until a year later a woman walked into the Daily Camera office and revealed the connection: two people who were thrown together by life, and joined together forever in their deaths.
At first glance, it might not have seemed like 62-year-old Lucinda Spencer and 29-year-old Lucas Lile had a lot in common. But in the spring of 2018, they found themselves at similar places in life.
Spencer had just broken up with her boyfriend and was moving off of the Lafayette farm property where she had lived for almost 20 years.
“The move was very hard on her,” said her friend and former roommate Martine Rudee. “It was a big move after she had a beautiful property she lived on for 16 years. It was just kind of strange for her. She was just getting to know her neighbors.”
Meanwhile, Lile was back at home with his parents after breaking up with a girlfriend and once again finding himself between jobs.
“He was never really sure what he wanted to do,” his mother Gail Lile said, noting her son had done everything from bartending to going to school to become a teacher to serving in the French Foreign Legion.
Friends of Spencer’s just so happened to live near the Lile family, and when they heard Lucas Lile was in between jobs, they told him Spencer was looking for help with her move. And so Lile helped Spencer move her things, and the two quickly bonded. A few weeks after the move, Spencer rehired Lile to help her sort through some things because she had more than she could fit in the new place. Read more here.
Speaking of kindness. I don’t know if I already shared this with you. My friend who works for me part-time, handed in his time sheet last week with a note that said, “You are a wonderful boss and more importantly a good friend. Don’t pay me for this time, please apply it to Bixby’s recovery. And give the big guy a hug for me.”
I cried.
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I worry because the bad ones seem to dominate our attention these days. So here are a few really good people.
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