Regular Life

Thursday ended with Shannon staring at her computer screen, tears streaming down her face. “Ben’s hiding in his closet,” she said. Ben likes to do that when I get home so I can “find” him.
Then Shannon looked up at me and sobbed, “He could have died.”
Just home from work, I set down my [...]

Trying to keep the 18-month old from splashing into the pond and the two pre-schoolers from walking into the black snake’s lair, I flipped open my mobile phone and called up to the house.
I had the wrong lens for the picture I was going to take, and the kids were bound to scare away my [...]

There’s nothing I could say that this video doesn’t — but anybody reading here for very long knows that rarely slows me down. I’m no expert at how an animal feels, however, so I’ll just present my little video and go on about my day (er, um, night).
I will say that I laughed heartily [...]

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I’ve seen a black widow in the wild before, but it was in a place that didn’t directly affect me. Sunday was a different story.
Our neighborhood (and the town in general) is seeing more than its fair share of black widow spiders this year, and for the past week our [...]

This Blue Macaw served up my favorite color in feathered form.
I’m letting the pictures tell the story for this post.
But, here’s a little background to get you started:
My brother and his wife and their son came down over the weekend and we had a great time, including a brief trip downtown and a big trip [...]

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Alternate Title: Do Apes Know They’re Going to Die?

(Cropped — hey, you wanna get closer to an imprisoned gorilla?)
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Above is a 375-pound silverback gorilla named Rocky at the Little Rock Zoo, Mother’s Day 1997. About two weeks later, on May 27, he and a girlfriend gorilla named Tammy, weighing in at a svelte [...]