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Scotland – Child Harbat and Her Animals

This girl loves her animals.  All throughout Scotland she found creatures, wild and domesticated, that she wanted to befriend.  No fear of slugs or caterpillars has she, but an unreasonable one of bees and a reasonable one of horses and

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What Happens When…

What happens when you go for a walk with two little girls?  Suppose you pass someone’s well-planted garden, spilling over with flowers and blossoms?  You get to play human vase while the girls chatter and pick more.  And honestly, would

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Happy New Year!

Here’s my resolution, straight up and unfiltered:  more better writing.  I mean more in the quantity way, better in the quality way, and more better in the mo’ bettah way.  First, this means an increase in frequency since, after all,

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Eat Simply, Eat Well

I am not the well-organized person who plans out a week of meals and the necessary ingredients—my wife does that.  And good thing too, since we get to try new things and old favorites.  This week the highlight was salade

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The Day a Firetruck Came to Our House and Other Fine Adventures

You have no idea what an exciting world we live in.  Really, you don’t.  Maybe your synapses are scorched, your eyes filmed over, your heart ossified, but there are everyday things around us that are REALLY AMAZING. I took Number

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Rats!

For the last month or so, we’ve had a visitor in our garage.  A rodent has gotten in and eaten some birdseed by the gardening shelf.  And when I say birdseed I mean packets of soy sauce that my wife

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My Wife the Bunny Rescuer

I’m not a cat person.  Between the can’t-be-bothered haughtiness, spraying on the walls, yowling to be let out, and desire to climb on your head, I can find better forms of companionship.  But now I can add a new reason

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Pliget

We recently found a Piglet (from classic Pooh) stuffed animal tucked in a box.  We gave it to Baby Harbat who gave it a tight hug and yelled, “Pliget!”  Now this is her companion of choice, from nap time to

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