Cactus Juice

Holycow!  It's been months since I posted anything. Working fulltime while simultaneously trying to get straight A's in school eats up a lot of time.  Well I have been wanting to post a video of my bottle cap bender.  Simply bend the bottle cap in half, label side in.  Impress your friends with ...

The leopard and deer were hanging out in the Life Sciences building this morning, watching me as I walked by on my way to my office. We were separated by glass, so feeling safe, I quietly snuck up to the window. They were kind enough to hold still while I snapped their photo. I am not sure if they should be allowed to hang out ...

It was deja vu this morning. I get into my truck, fasten my seatbelt, look up and this little guy is staring me in the face. Wow third sick bee I have seen in less than a week. I am assuming they were all not feeling well. None of them appeared to be able to fly. There was the little bee that could whom survived my harrowing commute last week. ...

Barbaro - April 29, 2003 - January 29, 2007  (AP Photo) I am not sure why I was so upset upon hearing of Barbaro's death. I was really sad over it yesterday. I was holding back tears writing about it. Even though he passed, Barbaro was a success in coping with his injury. Most horses would have been put down immediately. Only ...

2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized this morning. He had shatterered his leg at the start of last year's Preakness. Ugh! It was hard for to watch the TV when it happened and I got teary-eyed just reading the story today. Eight months of countless surgeries and treatments. Extraordinary medical care that most animals never ...

Tigers are in trouble. We have been killing them for a long time and we've finally gotten rid of all but about 5,000. This news is not new. Tigers were in danger when I was a kid but there weren't enough caring humans to change their circumstances. Now I'm a ''grown up'' and the torches of power are gradually being passed. My generation has ...

Wheehaw! Lookie here I catched me a live naked belly dog.

Geeze I totally let my blog go. Feel like I should dust off the cobwebs or break out the weed-whacker and trim the overgrown shrubs. Do blogs have shrubs? OK going forward I probably will not be posting very often. I'm guessing 2-3 per month but I'm not sure. We'll see.   I had been using my ''free time'', A.K.A. my evenings and ...

Check out the ingredients for these Peanut Butter cookies: whole-wheat flour, peanut butter, rolled oats, whey, canola oil, garlic powder, eggs, kelp, baking powder. Now look at a package of cookies that you eat. That list is probably four times as long with names you can't even pronounce. What's the catch? No catch. But these Peanut Butter ...

Two subjects that interest me a great deal are the environment and horses. It's hard to seperate those two because horse's have been a part of our environment since we lived in caves. Even today in our machine-driven, computer-controlled world, humans feel an innate connection with horses. You can't be with these creatures and not feel instantly ...