Speaking Of Lions...

African lion reported roaming in El Paso County, Colorado. Be sure to read the comments at the bottom of this story.

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Moose And Bear

Three summers ago I spend a weekend at a family friends house up near Walden, Co ( great photos of the area from Geoff Weatherford's blog, Paths Trails And Beyond, right here.) and wrote my bear story soon after. Well, Doc and family sent me the photos below.

Last month my husband was up helping Doc open his cabin up for the summer and while he was there they also put a motion detecting camera near the water tank Doc had set out for the animals. Here are just two of the the curious passersby who stopped to get a drink.

Doggy Pacifer

Every night Duke does this to his bed in the front room. As you can see he has a section of the bed in his mouth. Two minutes after I took this photo he was asleep. He stays asleep in this position for about ten minutes and then wakes up. Once awake he quickly trots to his bed in our bedroom, curls up and goes back to sleep.

Hooked On Phonics

This is making the e-mail rounds:

My five -year-old students are learning to read. Yesterday one of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,"Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"

I took a deep breath then asked, "What did you call it?"

"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"

And so it does...

African Elephant

I Could Have Told Them That

It's now official, Pringles are not potato chips.


Pringles

Potato Chips

FYI

Two clowns died this week; Bozo and Jesse Helms.

Rest in Peace Bozo.

Happy 4th Of July

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

-Emma Lazarus, 1883

Answer: Jim Thorpe And Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question: Name two people who played against each other in a game of football.

Jim Thorpe and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who would have thought? The greatest athlete of the 20th century and the 34th president of the United States. It happened in 1912 when Jim Thorpe was a student at Carlisle Indian School and Eisenhower a student at the US Military Academy.

And the reason I know this esoteric bit of information? I am reading Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle . I won't tell you much about this book, just that it is more than a sports story. It is also the story of a time, place and culture. I'm enjoying it immensely.

You Do Remember It's Time For Breakfast, Don't You?