We need to find meaning. We need to be useful. We need to know that who we are matters. I give, you give, we all give.
Winnie Nielsen says: Lovely color. I can imagine a whole bouquet full of these on the kitchen table!
Hitch your wagon to a star?
Well, fortunately for homeless pets in the southeastern U.S., they’re hitching their wagon to TWO stars named Chamblee and Lindsay Abernethy.
These soft-hearted sisters, originally from Georgia, both moved to Boulder, Colorado, last year—but neither could forget the plight of countless unwanted pets back home. Chamblee and Lindsay soon realized that the demand for adoptable pets in Colorado exceeded the number of strays in shelters.
Their experience growing up in the Southeast had been drastically different.
The girls grew up on a farm, where they learned the heartbreak of rescuing stray dogs and cats that were often dumped along their rural road. Chamblee channeled her empathy for abandoned pets into volunteer work for a local rescue group, and over the years, an idea began to bloom.
“I always had a vision of transporting pets from the Southeast to [Colorado],” she told Mother Nature News. “There’s a great demand and no surplus. I knew that if we could tap into transporting from the Southeast, that would be a pretty amazing thing.”
Winnie Nielsen says: God Bless these two young women! What a mission fraught with endless need and so little money. I hope that their community will rally around their efforts and help them with volunteers and needed food and philanthropic outreach.
Terry Steinmetz says: Wow! Their story is a great one! I hope they will help other lost ones along their trail!
Laurie Dimino says: Oh so pretty! I can just imagine sitting outside enjoying tea while surrounded by nature, birds singing, the smell of lilacs wafting through the air….AHH.
Thanks for starting my morning off just right!
Hugs,
Terry Steinmetz says: Just reminded me that I can look again at the thrift shops here for some new tea cups for my tea party friends!
Kathy Shaughnessy says: Tea always tastes better from a china teacup!
Winnie Nielsen says: Vintage enamelware is just the best! Love that color and style!
Winnie Nielsen says: My Mom and I once raised Robin that fell out of the nest and the Mother abandoned it. Mom made paste of hard boiled egg mixed with some milk and breadcrumbs and we fed it on a paint brush to get it down the throat. When it grew older, we added some raw hamburger meat to the mix which it gladly devoured! Once he was able to fly, we released him in a yard of some friends who lived in a bird sanctuary.
Elizabeth says: What a wonderful story Winnie! I am going to make a copy of your post & keep it in my bird file/journal/notes…just in case. Your Mom sounds like a smart lady with great maternal instincts. That must of been an amazing experience for you?
And MaryJane, this picture of the Warbler & Robin sitting so close together in the same tree is a real keeper. You were truly fortunate to realize that moment & capture it in digital time. Thanks for sharing.
Can you help make a wish come true for 6-year-old Miette?
Courtesy of Make-A-Wish Alaska & Washington
Winnie Nielsen says: We have a Children’s Miracle Network at our medical center to help grant wishes to our oncology pediatric patients. They recently did a 24 hour dance-a-thon and raised several hundred thousand dollars. The UF students did an awesome job! I am sure Miette’s day will be a blast for her! And may her treatments help her beat this disease!
Terry Steinmetz says: As the snow is falling & blowing here, those daffodils are a bright spot in my life today. Thanks!
Winnie Nielsen says: I never tire of looking at daffodils! Teri, you must be so tired of the endless snows this winter up your way!!
Kathy says: Daffodils….Natures gentle reminder that Spring always comes.
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
Red winged blackbird?
“Chortle-hee”, my favourite bird to listen to while bait fishin’.