That’s how a raccoon came to live at the White House. In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge received a live raccoon as a gift. The raccoon was intended as part of the president’s Thanksgiving dinner, but Coolidge refused to kill her. Instead, he and his family adopted her as a pet ...
Our chickens areomnivores: they will eat vegetable matter and grains, but they will also obtain protein from animals given a chance. Most people know that pasture-raised chickens will eat slugs, snails and insects, these are considered a natural part of their diet, but frogs and even mice ar...
Cavorting frogs from Haeckel’s masterpiece Kunstformen der Natur (1904). I first visited the Phyletisches Museum about 10 years ago, then again this August. Here are the sights from my latest visit: a whirlwind ~20 minute tour of the museum before we had to drive off to far-flung Wetzl...
Walking through my shattered garden I saw that the earth was damp but the grass still pale, the flowers wet and limp like newly caught fish lying at the bottom of a canoe, a garden of toads and frogs and fish I have now, swimming to nowhere. And yet… yet… the garden was intact, ...
- House has a handicap. All he's aiming for is normality. 豪斯腿部有残疾,他只是想和正常人一样 - And who decides what's normal? What if we find a drug that makes people live 20 years longer? Should we ban that because it's not normal?
The Little House in Haddam Connecticut2023 We called it “the little house” only after we built the “new house” about a hundred yards away in 1958 when I was just fourteen years old. And for nine years, 1949-1958, the little house was our home high above the Connecticut River Valley...
I was not upstairs in my parents' house in Frankfurt but in my basement room, in the house I shared with four friends about thirty-five kilometers away. It was not quarter to three at night; the sun was shining and I had obviously been taking a short afternoon nap. […] I was ...
There are other high-quality restaurants a shuttle ride downhill at the, such as theTree House restaurant(with Caribbean fare and great breakfasts), Emerald's (vegetarian cuisine),Trou du Diable(Caribbean and Creole food by the beach), and a beachfront vegetarian Indian restaurant, Apsara. In...
If the sound of field crickets chirping at night keeps you up, take steps to keep crickets away from your home. Understanding what crickets like is key to preventing crickets from finding their way into moist areas of your house. What Do Crickets Look For?
and the basket slips from her fingers and slides across the cabin when the ship rolls one way. It slides back to her when the ship rolls the other. Emma keeps grabbing for the basket, and losing her grip, and watching her daughter sail away from her, only to return, time after time....