Tagging Bears and Funny Farmers

Hey, Cotton here.  Jan must be using a mini camera.  I had to bend down to get my face in the photo.  Okay, actually I was bending down to pick up a treat.   But same effect.  I look short.

Jan is still hogging the computer for her projects, but we want you to know we've been thinking of you, so she gave us 5 seconds .... um, maybe that's 5 minutes?  Anyway, I have to post quickly.

This is a video we've seen a number of times and it always makes us laugh.  Rick Mercer helps to tag a black bear mom and snuggles her 3 very young cubs. It's a highly technical procedure (snicker!) and involves an aluminum snow shovel for protection and a jab stick for .. well, for jabbing.  Tagging works best if Mom bear sleeps through the tag exchange. Enjoy.


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And speaking of tagging , we need to be tagged.  Well, not us exactly, but our photos do.  Jan can't find us.  Of course, she can't find much of anything around here, but she claims being able to find our photos by a name search would help with our blog and designs. 

If you remember (yeah, right, as if your memory is any better than ours!), a couple of years ago Jan spent days tagging all the photos on the computer in Photoshop Elements so she could find our photos easily. But PE went berserk and had to be reinstalled. When it was, the tags were missing. So Jan is reluctantly tagging all our photos in the Picasa program - on the computer (not online).  Hopefully, this time the tags will stick with the files.

2006 is done. We figure she should be finished 2012 in time to add 2013.

Seriously, this is just one of several projects on her to-do list, the list we keep hiding and she keeps rewriting. We're keeping up with blogging news as best we can, while popping in and out and blog hopping when the typing chair is vacated for a short break, so don't think we're ignoring you.

Have a fun weekend.  We're going to catch some extra zzzzzzs.  Watching Jan tag photos is booorrrring!

Saturday Blog Hop.  

Marnie Wants A Kiss

I'm Cameron.  But you know that already, at least I hope you recognize me by now.  Jan has been very busy hogging the computer .... um, working on some projects and we haven't been able to post but if I can get this posted before Jan wants her chair back, you'll know we're all alive over here.

I have a cute video for you today.  Marnie the blue Indian Ringneck parrot wants a kiss from a cockatiel. We all just love Marnie's enthusiasm.


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We hope to see you all soon.

Drowsy Duo on St Paddy Day

Yes, we are all celebrating St. Paddy Day here on the Funny Farm.  What?  Oh, glad you noticed two of our members are missing.  Well, not exactly missing.  They just aren't included in the photo.

Why?  Really nice of you to ask.  Because they have their own photo.  We entered them in the Doggy Division of Brian's 2012 Nimbus Memorial St. Patrick's Day Photo Contest.

And we just learned the drowsy duo won 2nd place. The complete list of winners is now posted on Brian's blog. Thanks, Brian, for hosting the contest. 

View the Doggy Division entries.
View the  Kitty Category entries.

Happy St. Paddy's Day to ye all.  Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to see if there's anything green in the fridge.  Preferably something naturally green.

Oh, we almost forgot.  Rusty & Percy are members of The Tabby Cat Club  and the club is having a can you name these kitties guessing game.  We're pretty sure Percy's lovely - strike lovely - handsome eyes are included but we won't tell you which one he is.  (Hint, hint:  A, B, C, E, oops we missed a letter.) 

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Sam, Rusty and Marine Seals

Psst, Sam here with good news about Rusty's occupation of the doghouse. If you remember, Jan wanted to put me in the doghouse because she thinks I was bad.  Then I wanted to push Jan in because she didn't stand on her head to leash us and thus notice Buddy's neck booboo before it got bad.  But Rusty didn't want to share the doghouse because it was unoccupied until he moved in.  He claimed squatter's rights should prevail. 

Buddy, Merci and I don't care a lick about the doghouse and we sure don't want Jan to be able to use it for a jail when we've been bad.  Not that I would ever be bad.  Jan just gets these silly notions.

So first the Nutty Ninja Squirrels showed up to offer assistance and then the Cracked Nut Chipmunk Command arrived to help.  Personally, I think they just came to eat our stash of pecans and tiny acorns  Last installment, Rusty was out of pecans and considering waving the white flag of defeat before the chipmunks and squirrels held a nutless mutiny.

But I'm Rusty's hero.  Yep, I saved his occupation.  Rumpydog commented Rusty should call in the Navy Seals.and get his butt outta there.  That gave me an idea.  I called the Navy Seals.  But they were busy and couldn't make it before April.  So I called the Marine Seals and they waddled right over. 

Yep, thanks to me, the squirrels and chipmunks are gone. Something about they can't stand the overpowering smell of fish. So Rusty has won. The doghouse is now his.

And I'm Rusty's hero.