Happy Unbirthday to Us

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Mark Zeiger

Since we hadn’t seen my brother, Dave and his wife, Anke in three years, Michelle and Aly decided that we needed to have an “unbirthday party” to celebrate the birthdays we have missed and will miss in the coming years. In a way, this is cheating, because Aly, who loves to make cakes, has begun marking relatives’ birthdays by making a cake that she either knows they like, or thinks they might. But, since we love to eat the cakes she loves to make, we weren’t going to belabor the point . . . . Continue reading →

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The Squirrels are Going Nuts!

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Mark Zeiger

Signs of a coming winter are apparently not lost on our local red squirrels. Not the most sedate of neighbors at the best of times, these bossy, high strung little clowns have suddenly switched into high gear, beginning their spruce cone harvest. It’s as if they had been lulled into complacency, then jolted into the shocking realization that time is running out. Suddenly they’re tearing from tree to tree, climbing to the hanging cone clusters. They bite them free and drop them to the ground, often standing on hind legs to fling them with a two-handed toss. Continue reading →

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