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It was a sunny morning in Middlebury, Vermont, and Peachie was looking for trouble on the breakfast table. She found it.

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The four hour limit is to give all the gulls a fair chance at the tourists' french fries.

This short from the creators of Wallace and Gromit features two of our favorite things: cats and the singer Nina Simone. We play it all the time.

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57°. Showers. Let's play volleyball!

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The last of our low tide videos. Three herons were co-existing nicely while fishing in the shallows. A fourth heron arrived and things got tense.

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Hey pal, your brother's got the tartar sauce over there.

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We're enjoying some low tides at Golden Gardens this weekend, and this fellow was perhaps enjoying low tide most of all. "I'm tellin' you, the worst day of metal detecting is better than the best day of working!"

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P.U.G.
Pugs Universal Group

If you have a pug or like them, you can join the pug club. If you join, you get discounts on pug (dog) treats, cakes and homemade toys. We will sell them on weekends sometimes and sometimes after school. Please fill out the answers to the questions on the aplication. Don’t worry this is a club by 8 and 10 year old girls so it is safe.

Aplication
Name__________
What are the 2 colors pugs are?_________
Do you have a pug?__________
If so, what’s his/her’s name?__________
How old is your pug if you have one?__________
How old are you?__________
Can pugs be spotted?__________
What is a kind of dog that is pug mixed?__________

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You should start early, say before your feet touch the ground. They're wasting no time over at Whittier Elementary and that's for the best.

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She takes a break from her patrols of the police horse barn at Edgerton Park in New Haven, Connecticut.

Still short of Ballard photos, we present this little gem: Fritz Wunderlich sings Richard Strauss. Ah, bliss...

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I'm thick with cat photos and thin with everything else, so here's a special Monday Mephista post. Isn't she beautiful?

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She's old but game. BNSF 2080 leads a hot freight around the bend at Carkeek Park.

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It's not exactly Sunset Magazine style, but you gotta like it.

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Sometimes Callie even climbs out of her bed. With the warm weather she's been favoring this perch on the back porch.