Once each year a very special day arrives. It is the day when a certain flock-wide Small Chef turns one year younger. And wiser. And even more special. It doesn’t matter what species you are – a Grandma’s love is a Grandma’s love. When you know you are loved and cared for and doted uponContinueContinue reading “Happy Birthday to Our Small Chef!”
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Happy Father’s & Mother’s & Grandparents Day!
Being a Dad or a Mom is a pretty big deal, for sure. But being a grandbirdparent – now that is something special. And being a grandturtleparent – how many beings on this small round blue planet can add that singular honor to their lifetime resume? At first glance, it might seem like your largeContinueContinue reading “Happy Father’s & Mother’s & Grandparents Day!”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Cuteness
There are some days you may wake up, take a glance out at the current events unfolding on our small round blue planet and quite justifiably decide it’s a great day to go back to bed. No matter where your eyes may fall or what your ears may hear, it can seem there is noContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Be the Cuteness”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Make Mine Mashed
When you’ve been out of the egg for 21-and-a-half consecutive nesting seasons, you have had ample opportunity to learn that expecting things to stay the same is both optimistic and unlikely. On the one hand – positivity. You’ve got it. (And what ladybird doesn’t love positivity?) On the other hand – reality. The food chainContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Make Mine Mashed”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Put a Heart On It
In large featherless circles, when you like something – or someone – you’re supposed to put a ring on it. What the large featherless beings don’t know is that a heart can work just as well. For example, let’s say you are having a bit of a bum day. The news from the large rectangularContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Put a Heart On It”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Do Not Disturb Bird
Stress is nobody’s bestie. Whether it comes from unauthorized (at least from you) visits to the large featherless beings in the unattractive white lab coats or something awful called “social distancing” that means you are supposed to stay far away from the ladybirds during nesting season (as if), stress is a bona fide party killer.ContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Do Not Disturb Bird”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Big Bird Bite
Biting may not be considered the most socially appropriate response in certain circles. Sad but true. The longer you spend living in an interspecies flock, the more you are likely to notice how frequently your flock mates prefer to waffle around the important issues rather than tackle them head-on. Their loss. Whether the threat isContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Big Bird Bite”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Drop It Like It’s Sparkly
if there is such a thing as too much of a good thing (which is totally debatable when you’re covered in feathers), there is bound to be too much of a bad thing, too. Like too much stay-at-homing. Or too much soapy hand washing. Or too much of that clear slimy bottled goo that makesContinueContinue reading “Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Drop It Like It’s Sparkly”
Cuteness for Comfort with Pearl: Atta Bird
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”
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”
Love & Feathers & Shells 