So COOL!!!

Most days i make sure i am up on my Buffalo happenings and instead of reading the Buffalo News online i much prefer the Buffalo Rising Journal. Their articles interest me much more than those of the paper. Anywho, they posted some crazy neat photos of what it looks like when a lake effect storm moves across the city. This is just one photo, check out the rest here.

So COOL!!!!!!

Oh Shakira...

A friend on myspace sent this to me and i HAD to post it. Please enjoy...and take a look at those words.....jigga WHAT!?

Oh the silliness....i adore it

I didn't think the day would come...

I FOUND IT!!!!!!!

I never thought the day would come when i would get to see the girl behind the voice. I love it!!!!!!!!!!

mmmmm railing....

This kid has just made our new speaker of the house my favorite one EVER. Ask me about some of my other favorites...or not.

Smart Bird!

I know I know....another bird story....booooorrring. But it's really cool read it. Their brains might be small but their survival instincts make them look truly smart!

Birders World Magazine

Hi-tech Barn Swallows

A couple of Minnesota Barn Swallows have raised the bar on the scale of "Swallow IQ." For the past four years, a pair of Barn Swallows has nested inside the lumberyard entryway at the Home Depot store in Maplewood, Minnesota. At least one pair has learned that if they fly a tight circle in front of the motion detector above the double doors at the entry to the Home Depot, the doors open. Each bird then flies one more loop as the doors open and swoops inside where the pair has built a nest atop a small pipe near the ceiling. When a bird is ready to leave, it flies a tight circle in front of the motion detector inside the doorway and the doors again open for Home Depot's small avian customers.

Keith Stomberg, a supervisor at the store, first noticed the birds nesting inside in the summer of 2001. He was fascinated by their apparent learned behavior and left them alone to raise their families. It was a good place for the swallows to raise their young because there were no predators or bad weather. The pair typically raised two broods each year. When the birds returned to nest in 2003, he contacted the staff of the Nongame Wildlife Program of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Wildlife biologist Joan Galli observed the nesting swallows and was amazed to see how the birds had adapted to the unique setting in order to raise their families. "We typically think of the crow family and the parrot family as among the most intelligent of birds," according to Galli, "but apparently the swallows have a few tricks of their own that help us appreciate how birds are constantly adapting to survive in novel human-created environments."
-- Carrol Henderson

Progress

Remember this baby? We were a tad concerned cause she was so tiny...

As i figured....we had nothing to worry about. :)

heeeeeeeeey chuuuuuubby. I love it!!!!

The sweetest thing...

Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt cradles a young Iraqi girl as they both sleep in the hospital. The girl's entire family was executed by insurgents. The killers shot her in the head but she survived. The girl received treatment at the U.S. military hospital in Balad, but cries often. According to nurses at the facility, Chief Gebhardt is the only one who can calm down the girl, so he holds her at night while they both sleep in a chair. Chief Gebhardt was assigned to the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group at Balad Air Base, Iraq.

C is for Cookie

Tequila Cookies

This is the BEST Christmas Cookie recipe EVER!

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar Lemon juice
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

• Sample the Cuervo to check quality.
• Take a large bowl
• Check the Cuervo again to be sure it is of thehighestquality, pour one level cup and drink.
• Turn on the electric mixer.
• Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffybowl.
• Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.
• At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still OK, tryanother cupjust in case.
• Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl andchuck inthe cup of dried fruit.Pick the frigging fruit off floor.
• Mix on the turner. If the frieddruitgets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
• Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
• Next, sift two cups of salt, or something.
• Check the Jose Cuervo.
• Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.Add one table.
• Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you canfind.
• Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fallover.Don't forget to bean off the turner.
• Finally, throw the bowl throughthewindow, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.

CHERRY MISTMAS

ummmm what?

I'm not sure if i was sucked into some sort of wormhole timewarp when i went to bed last night...BUT it's 72 degrees right now here in DE. I came to work in a short sleeve shirt and capri's. ummmm...i don't get it. Can someone talk to me about this?

Don't judge....

I've never really had a problem with Woody before, I think he's a pretty good looking guy actually.

Great eyes...

ok this one isn't even just good looking...it's hot.

Apparently he's funny too.....

I guess i expected him to have a hot model wifey....apparently not...I'm so proud of you woody! Those are my thoughts of the day...i hope you have enjoyed them. :)

Red Tail Hawk goodness...

This is Rebecca Caroline and I washing a redtail hawk who got stuck in a barrel of used cooking oil. YUCK!! The video was taken by Christy who spent 2 weeks with us on her journey of "best wildlife rescue agencies in the country" on a scholarship from DAWN. How cool that we are one of them!! She blogged about her entire trip and the site is www.dawndifferences.com. Enjoy!!!!!

Bad ass

Picture it:

3,000 teeth...

16 feet long....

6,000 lbs....

Prey is ripped into mouth-sized pieces, which are swallowed whole....

Can swim fast enough to propel themselves out of the water up to 18 ft.....

What do you get.....

That would be a Great White Shark...how bad ass is that?!?!?!??!