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Declining Food

This can be a tough one, sisters …

Picture it:

You’re in the throes of Thanksgiving.

Much to your delight, someone else has done all of the cooking.

(A girl can dream, can’t she?)

So, you’re sitting pretty before a plate that is courteously clean …

nary a smudge of gravy left behind.

You’ve tried the turkey,

sampled the stuffing,

reveled in roasted veggies,

nibbled, noshed,

sipped, and sampled—

and, lo and behold,

you’re finished!

Now, here comes the hard part:

Your hostess,

beaming with benevolence,

says you must eat more, a little taste of this, oh, and you haven’t tried that.

Perhaps she’s already bearing down on you …

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Little House Thanksgiving

If I say

Laura Ingalls Wilder

and your heart skips a beat,

we’re on the same page.

Now, I have a question for you:

Do you remember Laura mentioning Thanksgiving in any of the Little House books?

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Wolf attack!

If I had a hammer …

or …

an axe?

Yikes!

I just heard a news brief from the far reaches of Russia that rivals any fairytale those Grimm guys ever concocted …

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Hair of the Dog

My big, bad, keeps-wolves-away, soft-hearted Tulip. I now have four skeins of spun yarn from her fur and Saphira’s, a Siberian Husky. I’m thinking perhaps a vest or a hat? No, silly, not for Tulip, but for me.

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carrotmob

Lean in, girls …

Here’s a nibble of gossip that’s begging for gab:

I hear that a Carrotmob may be coming your way.

Keep your eyes peeled!

Photo by Kander via Wikimedia Commons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can only imagine what you must be thinking …

A carrot-hurling gang of hoodlums!

Garden raiders!

Is Bugs Bunny behind this?

What’s up, Doc?

Before you take up your garden hoes,

let me explain.

The Carrotmob isn’t about raiding

(or rabbits).

Photo by Kessa Ligerro (GFDL or CC-BY-SA-2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a fabulously fresh initiative that is out to convince businesses to make positive changes by providing incentives.

The philosophy is simple: dangle a carrot—you know the adage.

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BIG

Holy Cow! Check out this short video from a humongous dairy near Chicago. Pssst. I wonder if the cows are given growth hormones and daily antibiotics? But what I’d really like to know is how many steps a day a cow there gets to take? Say it with me … Holy Cow!!!!! Another pssst. The birthing room is pretty cool.

 

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