Life in Virginia with birds, squirrels, and teddy bears too!
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I never thought much about Mardi Gras until I met a gal who lived in New Orleans. When I lived in Oklahoma City, I worked as a traveling marketing representative…
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We know the Highland County Maple Festival is just around the corner when we see the yellow-bellied sapsucker drilling sapwells in the maple trees in our backyard. These woodpeckers spend…
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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…