Friends Friday

Today we wanted to thank our friends for sending us Holiday cards! These are the ones we've received electronically...We have also loved all the paper cards we've received in the mail. Our mom is feeling bad because we are getting more cards than her! :) Thank you friends here in the blogging world...you make the world brighter!

Wordy Wednesday

Thanks to all who made a guess yesterday...we were in Williamsburg, VA. The weather was gorgeous and History was made Fun! Here are a few more friends...

These birds were hanging out with the ferry we were riding...

This little guy came out to eat dinner while we were touring Historic Jamestowne Island.

This squirrel was also on Jamestowne Island...

This remnant of a friend was in a gazebo at the Berkeley Plantation. You better believe we quickly left that spot in case he was still around somewhere!

Friends on Friday

The Flats met this lady at the Apple Festival last weekend...she made their family Christmas ornament for 2010.
Here she is writing their names on the ornament...

She loved meeting the flats...we can't wait to hang our new ornament on the tree this year!

Friends Flashback Friday

This is a slight flashback, to the time on our trip a few weeks ago...we met some interesting people, and wanted to share them on Friends Friday.
This lovely lady was at the parade in Red Wing...she had a sweet guinea pig named Ninja that we were happy to meet!

This lady owned the Green Gables Inn, in Lanesboro. This Inn was awesome and we enjoyed our night there. In the lobby, which is part of the owners house, there were a couple of small dogs. How neat to live where you work, and vice versa!

This gentleman was at the farmers market...he sold delicious cinnamon roasted nuts of various varieties. Tanner loved the sweet smell coming from his booth and was not shy about asking for a picture :) I think the real Tanner would have asked for a sample too!

Of course, our wonderful neighbors (minus the husband), who fed us a delicious dinner and showed us around their new town.

Well, there you have it...some of the wonderful people we met on our trip to Minnesota!

F is for...

F was actually pretty easy...here goes...
FRIENDS and FAMILY ...Devon and Tanner are brothers and best buds.

FISH - Charles is happy to be on the blog again. He is a betta fish.

FROGS!! Tanner is dressed like a frog for Halloween...he looks thrilled doesn't he? :)

FLOWERS!! Spring is breaking out all over these days, and soon we'll have tons of flowers everywhere. I took this picture at the State Fair last year.

More pretty flowers...this color of lantana is my favorite.

More Flowers...these were at a farmers market in Minnesota. So beautiful.

FLAIR-UPS...Mojo had really bad allergies, and he would flair up around his mouth. We were lucky that our vet at the vet school would let us submit photos of him, so she could track his progress.

FIBROSARCOMA - in this picture you can clearly see Mojo's tumor. It had many lumps and bumps on it, and a few sores. We were lucky that it never ruptured or oozed. Mojo was still enjoying what little bit of life he had left here...

Tomorrow is the letter G...

Floofy Friends Friday

Today I wanted to introduce some of our Floofy Friends. These are the girls that I catsit for on occasion.
Lily can be a wild woman...she loves to play with ribbons and chase balls around the floor.

Ally is a super sweet cotton ball. She loves to be held and snuggled. She begs for her laxatone in the evenings.

Here's another picture of Ally showing her belly on the screened porch.

Mimi is a petite thing and loves to be brushed. She's a good eater and doesn't mind finishing off the others cats food, if given the chance.

There's another cat in the group, named Reese. She's solid black, long haired as well, but she is extremely shy, so I didn't go after her with the camera :)

Turtle Tales

Meet Sasha...she's a Sulcata Tortoise. She belongs to a friend of ours, who got her when one of her students was just going to put her out in the wild. Sasha spends most of her time at school as a classroom pet, but a few years ago, she came to out house for a couple of weeks during Christmas break. We did not let the boys around her because of the risk of salmonella.
Our friend brought her over to the house in a plastic tub, along with her heat lamps and food. Sasha seemed unhappy in the plastic bin, because it was smaller than what she was used to, so Auntie and I started looking for something better. We found an inflatable kids pool and put her in there. She loved it!

After a while though, she punctured parts of it, so we reinforced it with boxes and other stuff around the edges to keep her in. She hung out in the cats room, with the door closed so her room would stay nice and warm.

She loved to eat fruits and veggies, and could be quite the messy eater.

Here she is at my parents house because we didn't feel comfortable leaving her lamps burning while we went home for Christmas. Sasha hung out in the bathroom and enjoyed laying on the floor heat vents! Here she is eating her Christmas breakfast...lettuce, bananas, and grapes.

Sasha is getting very large right now, and our friends are looking to possibly move her to a zoo or something like that, which had been their plan since they took her from the student. She has at least doubled in size from when these pictures were taken!

I use this time to say to people looking for a pet of anykind, exotic or not, to make sure you research and know what you are getting into....their life is in your hands!

Thanks and I hope you all enjoyed meeting Sasha...she's a wild woman for sure.