The Silly Season

  • November 24, 2008 10:02 am

In Australia, Christmastime aka summer is called the Silly Season.  A quick wikipedia search said that the term Silly Season is used worldwide.  I’ve never heard it in the US, but apparently it’s the slowest news period when government is out of session and the media needs to create eye-grabbing headlines to sell papers.  Who…

It’s a Small World After All

  • November 23, 2008 5:05 pm

 
 
Lauren in Houston (avid reader/poster to the Beaird Zoo blog) sent me this link a few weeks ago.  http://litlicense.blogspot.com/2008/10/bookstore-for-women-and-families.html  She spotted it on another friend’s blog and forwarded it on to me.  One of the stores that opened is in a shopping center that we frequent!  It’s a small world after all.  We…

Sorry to be so S L O W

  • November 21, 2008 3:03 pm

   
These beauts showed up after a good rain.  The whole yard was covered in them.  Yuck.  They’re slow too.
First Fisher and Ramsey had a little gastro/head thing.  High fevers and screaming headaches.  Ramsey also had tonsillitis and an eye infection.  Just when we thought we had the all clear, Barrett caught the gastro thing…