Showing posts with label N&M. Show all posts
Showing posts with label N&M. Show all posts

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Big Carrot

Big Frog's colleague, with whom Big Frog travels to Mexico on occasion, knows that when we go away for the weekend we leave the girls alone (in their 120 sq ft runaround space) with enough boxes of hay (multiple Kleenex boxes full) and a BIG CARROT.  Nilla & Mocha know that when a big carrot comes out they get some alone time without us around.  We like to think they don't like that we’re leaving them alone, but we know they like BIG CARROT

The most recent time Big Frog traveled, his colleague inquired after the girls and their big carrot, which unfortunately they didn't get because I was staying home.  But the colleague's new idea is a full-length film called BIG CARROT, which is about ANYthing and nothing, a drama, a romance, a comedy, but the scene cuts are carrots (like how Law & Order has that bum-bum & suddenly you're somewhere else and some when else) and the final scene is the girls, working away on their bonus nibbles.  It's the next Love Actually.  Or Henson's Timepiece.  I know one thing for sure, the girls would love every minute of filming and all the veggies they can get their teeth on.

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Adopt from a shelter!

Patrick McDonnell's Mutts comic strip, whose protagonists are Earl & Mooch, runs an ongoing series of Shelter Stories encouraging pet adoption.

Nilla & Mocha particularly like the 11/3/2013 strip, and encourage you to adopt from Red Dog Farm & Rescue.

(chalk art by P, one of my evening church kids, who came to the latest No School Now What day)

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Bluegrass

So the girls (Nilla & Mocha, our guinea pigs) have been eating timothy hay up to this point as their primary food.  But the newest box for them, I ordered something different.

me: So the girls have a new kind of hay: bluegrass.  It's longer, very supple...
Big Frog: I like bluegrass.
me: Yes, I figured that would endear the girls to you all the more.  But if you strap tiny banjos to them, you're dead.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Small furry frogs

(All our critters are "frogs", even those that look like furry potatoes.)

<sweetly>

Carrot?  Carrot!
...It's not a bribe at all!

Sunday, October 4, 2015

The girls

"I have a lap full of squeaks."

Nilla & Mocha are rarely affectionate on cue, and even more rarely simultaneously,  but I'll take it.

Sunday, July 5, 2015

Squeak squeaker...

me, to Mocha, who is in my lap: Squeak squeaker squeak squeakin...
<Big Frog laughs>
me: I don't know guinea pig!  The closest thing I have is that guy in The Emperor's New Groove who speaks squirrel!