Owner: Karen Shanley: My life as an author, mom, dog nut URL:http://karenshanley.com/blog Join Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:23:14 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Karen Shanley is an author, blogger, and mom. She has one 11 year old daughter, and two grown stepsons, whose hearts were won mostly through their stomachs. (Karen routinely whips up gourmet meals with food grown from her organic garden.)
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The Newest Animal Linguist on the Block 2008-02-26 23:49:55 Alex, the gray parrot, and Washoe, the chimpanzee, (both recently deceased) are back in the news in this month’s National Geographic Magazine, in an article about understanding the animal’s mind. In it, the newest kid on the “smarts” block is featured. Are you ready? Yep, a Border Collie named Betsy, who knows more than 300 [...] Read more:Animal
My Bucket List 2008-02-23 23:29:55 With The Bucket List having recently played, a movie with Jack Nicholas and Morgan Freeman running around the world checking off items on their to-do list before they kick the bucket, it’s gotten people thinking about what their bucket list would look like. Sarah over at Teetotaled asked me to share 5 things I’d like [...]
Why Are There Only Boring Car Colors? 2008-02-19 23:23:17 Lying here, coughing my brains out, I have more time than usual to contemplate the deep mysteries of life. Like why have car colors become so boring?
Think about it. What are our options? Take a look at any parking lot and this is what you’ll see. All pulled out of the same sock drawer of [...] Read more:Colors
Teach Your Dog Hand Signals and Save Her Life 2008-02-18 12:26:50 Nutmeg saved her old dog, Ezra’s life today. From all the way across the front yard and down across the street!
Ezra, Nutmeg’s beloved 12 year old boxer, got out the front door and wandered across the street, before Nutmeg had a chance to realize. With four kids and a busy house, it happens. But [...] Read more:Signals
Providing for Your Dogs or Cats in Case of Delay or Death 2008-02-12 23:56:10 Most of us have wills providing for our significant others and children in the event something happened to us. But what about our animals?
If you were in an accident, or delayed from getting home from a trip, or you suddenly died, what would happen to your animals? Do you have a plan in place? Do [...] Read more:Delay
Buying Time 2008-02-09 23:59:10 What I like most about my laptop is the freedom it gives me to set up shop anywhere in the house. This evening, I’ve parked myself in the living room by the fireplace. There’s nothing I love better than working by the warmth of a crackling fire.
Having finished her homework, Cait is drawn by the [...] Read more:Buying
Hello Old Friend 2008-02-05 23:53:03 Can you see him? He’s in the middle of the two clumps of trees. (Sorry the photos aren’t clearer. He was all the way across the pond, toward the ridge. Even with the digital 12x zoom, it was hard to get a good shot from this distance at dusk.)
I called out to say hello, and [...] Read more:Hello
Spring Has Sprung 2008-04-20 08:35:15 It’s that time of year. The weather’s warming. The birds are nesting. The garden’s calling.
Cold weather crops are well underway.
Seedlings are put outside for a few hours a day to start hardening.
When they all come back inside, there’s hardly a flat surface free. Time to seriously think about the benefits of a small greenhouse.
Also time [...] Read more:Spring
The Normal Thing to Do 2008-04-27 19:28:21 Having grown up with animal-filled farms abutting our property, and adding to that our own four-legged menagerie, I learned early to keep a weather eye for all animals. And I learned to step in and do whatever needed doing, because the consequences of ‘not doing’ could mean death for an animal (and injury or death [...] Read more:Normal
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Dog Chew Treats — Safe or Unsafe 2008-05-14 13:24:03 All puppies and most grown dogs have a need to chew. While both Kiera and Graidy were chewers as puppies, Kiera could take or leave a bone or chewie now. Graidy still lives for them; he needs to chew. Perhaps your dog falls somewhere in the middle. Regardless, no doubt, at some point we’ve all [...]
A Writing Life 2008-05-23 06:42:17 I haven’t needed an alarm clock for years now, because I have two furry ones. Today, it’s 4:10 AM, a little early even for me. Graidy usually has the decency to wait until about 5:00 AM before rousing me out of bed. (Another quality people should be aware of when getting high energy/herding [...]
Garden Experiment 2008 2008-06-01 13:18:15 With the cost of food skyrocketing, and the prices of organic produce off the charts, my garden experiment this year is to work toward growing enough food to feed my family for the year. Matron of Husbandry over at Throwback at Trapper Creek was the one who inspired me.
This year, I’ve more than doubled the [...] Read more:Garden
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A Day in the Life of my Three Dogs 2008-06-14 08:35:54 Nancy Freedman-Smith a CPDT trainer at GoodDogz tagged me. (If you live in Maine and need help with your dog, look her up. She’s wonderful.) I’m supposed to share eight little known or unusual things about me. But since I’ve pretty much spilled the beans on myself several times over, I went looking for more [...] Read more:Three
Longest Day of the Year 2008-06-22 11:56:21 The summer solstice is the day of maximum sunlight hours, bringing the longest day and shortest night of the year.
I’d like to think we put it to maximum use.
As usual, Graidy greeted me at 4:50 a.m.by jumping up on the bed and licking my face until I woke up. Next to me on the floor, [...] Read more:Longest
Zucchinis or Squashes Setting Small Fruit? Absence of Bees May Require Hand Pollinating 2008-07-09 03:49:58 More than the economy is falling on hard times these days. A potentially huge problem is looming for gardeners and food growers everywhere.
I just had a friend share with me that, in her area, zucchinis aren’t setting full fruits. So I checked my plants and , lo and behold, found some developmentally challenged zukes [...] Read more:Setting
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Garden Progress and Yummy Swiss Chard Recipe 2008-07-04 19:16:10 It’s been about a month since I planted my garden.
Here’s how it started.
Here’s what it looks like one month later. What a little sun and rain will do, when you start with good dirt…
Without a wide-angle lens, I can’t get the whole thing in. But you get the idea.
So far, we’ve enjoyed Swiss
Chard, Bok [...] Read more:Garden
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