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animals

The big-eyed dog.

March 12, 2010

“This dog looks terrified of your senator.”
So arrived this photo and statement, in my email today. Pictured is a guy, a dog, and N.D. Senator Kent Conrad.

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The cats get all the action.

November 17, 2009

:: A post from November 2005.::
Cat Dating Service: Get the party started.
Leroy

Leroy lives alone and builds bombs in a 6′x6′ shack in Montana.
555-6111
—–
Fiona

Fiona is from New York and likes to eat and date garbage.
555-3549
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Royce

Royce likes walks on the beach and salmon flavored snacks.
555-2376
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Duane

Duane is neutered, and therefore doesn’t play the dating game.
—–
Alice

Alice likes yellow roses, [...]

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Dug.

November 16, 2009

I found the dog I want.
This is amazing, since I do not like dogs.
Let me restate that: I do not like other people’s dogs, but I liked our family’s dogs.
Other people’s dogs are like other people’s kids (except the kids don’t stick their noses in your crotch which, sadly, for some people’s kids would actually [...]

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Dirty pig.

October 21, 2009

:: This is something I wrote almost ten years ago.::
Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow. This made the other animals jealous.
“I’m whitish!” cried the goose.
“I lay white eggs!” cried the chicken.
“I give white milk!” screamed the cow.
“When it’s Thanksgiving, I get a little pale. Sometimes white as a ghost!” choked [...]

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Candlelight fading.

September 22, 2009

How many miles to Babylon?
Three score and ten.
Can I get there by candlelight?
Aye, and back again.
If your feet are nimble and light
You’ll get there by candlelight.
–Mother Goose
I read a lot of horse stories as a girl. One of my favorites — still on my bookshelf — was a book called Can I Get There By [...]

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Ants and jars of clay.

September 9, 2009

I walk with my head down, usually, and not up.
This has little to do with my inner self-esteem and more to do with the desire to keep chewed gum off of my shoes. If you look down while walking on the south sidewalk, nearing the corner of Rosser and 3rd heading west here in Bismarck, [...]

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Cat photography.

August 19, 2009

The latest Catster.com email newsletter — (I’ll just pause and let you get it out of your system before I go on) — contained a link to an article detailing the Top Five Tips for Photographing Your Cat. Though I rolled my eyes a bit, somewhat like when I see the magazine Cat Fancy and [...]

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My nephews, with horses.

July 29, 2009

Evidently my nephews had some recent rodeo action and my sister shared the photos with the family.
I love this photo; the horse has a peculiar expression.
There are a few other photos that caught my eye; one has a nephew roping a steer with what looks like would make tough, tough steaks. Another has one [...]

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Grousing about grouse.

December 12, 2007

Poetically detailing a common driving incident involving
what I think were grouse.
by Julie R. Neidlinger
From a gathered clump
(is there any other kind?)
by the road,
they chose to hurl themselves
towards my sparkling red Jeep Grand Cherokee
which already had a cracked windshield
from a careless gravel truck.
“You are mighty pudgy,” I shrieked
through that windshield
deftly braking and artfully dodging
this way [...]

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The Neidlinger catch and release program.

September 6, 2007

The cat watched on, mildly curious, as the round mouse tried frantically to get beneath the stove in the kitchen. Its foot was caught in a mousetrap and so it found itself in the unfortunate position of both excruciating leg pain, sheer terror, and the inability to get away to safety because of the bulky [...]

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