If there is one fact you can count on in the greater food chain o’ life, it is this: every day is going to be different than the day before it. Sometimes, this is a good thing. For example, perhaps one morning you open your adorable round black eyes and spy a line of singleContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Atta Bird”
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Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Grass Grow
You don’t have to be bipedal with a big (and frankly, top-heavy) brain to figure out that sometimes it is good to go slow and let the grass grow under your feet. It is smart to stop and smell the roses (or the hibiscus, or the dandelion greens). It is wise to notice how anyContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Letting the Grass Grow”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Fling It Now, Ask Questions Later
Back in the days of ye olde Wild West, gunslingers knew just what to do when someone or something annoyed them and wouldn’t go away. Shoot it now. Ask questions later. When you have feathers, you know that while the West was undoubtedly wild, it was still no big deal compared to the food chainContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Fling It Now, Ask Questions Later”
Being Brave with Bruce: Breaking Out the Cuteness
There’s nothing like a big, unwelcome, unwanted worldwide event (like the kind that begins with a capital “P”) to make you oh-so-aware of how different species can have different coping styles. For example, some of your flock mates like a lot of togetherness (typically these are the ones covered in feathers). Others of your flock mates prefer to seekContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Breaking Out the Cuteness”
Resting in Place with Malti: Slow and Steady
Hailing from the most ancient and enduring of species can give you a perspective younger life forms clearly lack. From your unique vantage point, you can see how the temporary ebbs and flows of life can sometimes send hot (oh so hot) molten lava spewing out, only to turn around and cover the whole worldContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Slow and Steady”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Box Full of Feathers
Sometimes you just want to curl up in something comfy. You might feel like this when not one, but two! shelled beings move into your household and then simply refuse to leave. Or you could feel like this when your large featherless scheduling coordinator makes an appointment for you with the scary large featherless beingContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: A Box Full of Feathers”
Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle FaceTime
Going from the wild life to the pet life is guaranteed to be a big transition. You might do the same basic things each day, but why and how you do them is often very very different. Take meeting face to face, for instance. In a wildlife setting, meeting face to face typically only meansContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Box Turtle FaceTime”
Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard
You don’t have to be out of your small round white escape pod for very long before it becomes clear that the planet can be a dangerous place. Predators both enormous and infinitesimal are roaming about night and day, and no matter where you go and who you meet, everyone looks hungry. You would justContinueContinue reading “Resting in Place with Malti: Me and My MommyGuard”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On
Being born with feathers automatically makes you very brave. Need proof? You just keep waking up every morning. You don’t know what you will find. Maybe for 21 straight years full of months and days, everything has been just fine. But that doesn’t mean it always will be. One morning, you might wake up toContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Keep Calm and Molt On”
Being Brave with Bruce: Capture the Cup
Spending a lot (like, seriously, a LOT) of time together all of a sudden can really bring out the best in your flock mates. Or the worst. You start to notice how little things you previously found a non-issue or only mildly irritating have now become the proverbial pea under the pillow. Or mattress. OrContinueContinue reading “Being Brave with Bruce: Capture the Cup”
Love & Feathers & Shells 