Life in Virginia with birds, squirrels, and teddy bears too!
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I’ll show my age in this blog, but you already know I’m retired, so I’m obviously old. As a child growing up in Wisconsin, my mom would dress my sister…
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Giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] are at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC. They made their public debut on January 24, 2025, after a nineteen-hour…
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My Walter was born in July, and his zodiac sign is Cancer. I don’t claim to know much about astrology, and I don’t read our horoscopes every day, but I…
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With frigid winter weather keeping us indoors, I thought it might be uplifting to start making plans for some fair-weather activities. The Roanoke Region in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains is…
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North winds are whipping, and the ground is frozen, so yardwork is out of the question right now—hooray! That gives me the excuse to dig out a jigsaw puzzle and…
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As children growing up in Milwaukee, my sister and I didn’t care what the weather was doing as long as we could play outside. Mom bundled us up in heavy…