No dogs - just critters

From the old files:

These have absolutely NOTHING to do with dogs - just me playing around and being a goof.

One of the younger teachers I worked with nicknamed me "Dinosaur" years ago - not because I was old or inflexible or refused to use new teaching methods - because I had this stupid toy dinosaur "guarding" the phone (right next to the fake dynamite - try keeping THAT in schools these days...) and the humans skull (which I always told kids was "Yorick", a former student. They didn't get that joke until they studied 'Hamlet' in high school!)  So 'tall me' and 'petite her' became "Dinosaur" and "Baby D' and that's how we'll remain, as long as...

I never got to meet Mary, the famous donkey of SDP.  My first visits were at the house and the kennels up top.  By the time I had made it to the barn, Mary had passed on.  But I learned about her from reading Janine's book and listening to all the stories - quite the character.

I was thrilled to meet the Orange Sisters - Clementine and Tangerine (just loved little Clementine!!) and big ol' Buddy - was sad to see them go - although they went on to bigger and better things.  So when the five newbies showed up on the farm in the summer of 2015, I was excited that, perhaps, there'd be another "Mary".

with a side order of munchkin - Little Buddy, Jr.

And then, there's the explore.org page and all the people who post there, as well.  Some of those great shots have managed to make their way to the Dog pages - now and then one catches my eye - like this of a mama owl and her baby.  

My ONLY experience with owls (hoot owls - not cute ones like these two) was driving home at 3 in the morning on the Kancamagus Highway in northern NH when my two little kitties were babies.  I was working a convention and HAD to get home to feed them - so I took on the three-hour trip home (only to have to return the next day and do it again) as I didn't have a sitter.  Plus, they were only twelve weeks old and I REALLY didn't want to leave them with anyone...)  

Anyroad, an owl almost flew into my windshield on that dark-back-in-the-middle-of-nowhere mountain road.  Scared the life out of me - wingspan was wider than my CAR!!!  I'll take thses sweeties over that guy ANY day!!