Homegrown Thoughts

Does anybody remember the group Mummenschanz?  If you’re very far under the age of 40, you might not.  I seem to remember them being on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.  Ah, those were the days.  Well, this video reminds me of something they would do and it’s very cool.

I sat here watching this whole thing, trying to figure out how it’s done. Even after seeing a small clue at the end, I still can’t figure it out! I love watching stuff like this, it massages my brain. And look at the pretty colors..ooooh! :-) Enjoy!

This was in our local paper yesterday and I thought it was appropriate to share since I’m in a major winter BLAH phase.

10 reasons to appreciate the cold Iowa winter

Here are 10 things to ponder as you shiver through another day in Iowa’s Endless Winter:

1. The good news - no mosquitoes!
2. If you can still see your breath, you haven’t frozen to death.
3. It has never snowed in Iowa in June. That’s only a little more than three months away.
4. You can probably get a good deal on an air conditioner.
5. Nobody cares how funny you look while tiptoeing on an ice-glazed sidewalk, because they are too worried about falling themselves. And big, furry, hairstyle-destroying hats are fashionable.
6. Ice fills the potholes.
7. If the electricity goes out, your frozen foods will likely remain frozen.
8. Scraping an ice-covered windshield makes you feel superior to all those people who wimped out and built garages.
9. The Iowa Cubs home opener is April 3, a mere 41 days away.
10. What? You’d rather be mowing?

Spring, please come soon!!

I don’t know what is wrong with me, but today I decided I want another pet.  Not just any pet…a Robo Hamster.  Never heard of a Robo Hamster?  I hadn’t either until we went to Petco to get some cat food.  Yes, food for the cats we’ve had for less than a year that live with the dog we’ve had for a couple years…apparently I feel the need to add to our menagerie every year or so.  And that’s not even mentioning the freshwater AND saltwater fish we have.

But back to the adorable Robo Hamster.  They were so cute!  So tiny.  Dainty little tails. LOVE THEM.  Here, see for yourself.

See?  Adorable!  And they were maybe 3 inches long.  I just wanted to put them in my pocket and bring them home.  They remind me of miniature chinchillas - another animal I’d love to have but know my husband would never go for.  They don’t have the chinchilla tail but other than that, they look similar to me.

I even went so far as to look at hamster cages, hamster food, hamster hideaways and…get this…there are hamster litter boxes!  Yes, hamsters can be litter trained.  Who knew?

Besides the obvious issues of existing pets, including cats who would see a hamster and think, “Mouse! Must eat!”, there is my little ‘no unneeded purchases’ pact.  And the “Are you crazy?” husband reaction, which I am sure I will get.  I also did some research and apparently these little critters are extremely fast so if they get away from you, you can plan on spending the rest of the day trying to get them caught again.  They are usually not thrilled with being held and it takes quite awhile to tame them.  Although they supposedly don’t bite often, I have seen several reports of biting.  Basically, not a great pet for people who like to hold their pets or don’t want to spend a lot of time taming them…I should cross it off my list right now.  But I still want one!  Or two, actually, because they are social and do better with a pal.  They are very active and fun to watch.

Somebody please bring me to my senses.  Or at least tell me a good kind of hamster to get that is also very cute. I had a teddy bear hamster when I was a kid, maybe I should see if anybody has those available.  Oh wait, I still haven’t cleared this with my dh.  And, seriously, I do NOT see that happening.  *sigh*  What gets into me, anyway?!?

I was tagged for this on my homeschoolblogger blog, but I’ll post it here, too.  :-)

I’ve been tagged by Kelly at Unschooling @ Sage Manor.  I haven’t done a meme/tag for awhile, so…why not?

Here are the ‘rules’:

1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

And now, my 6 unimportant things:

1. I’m a night owl.  If I had my way, I’d be up until 2 am every night and sleep until 10.  Of course, this doesn’t really work too well when you have kids to take care of, so instead I live on much less sleep than I should have and often take ‘unplanned’ short naps during the day.
2. I don’t have any wisdom teeth.  As in, I never had any, they never appeared.  Go ahead, make your ‘lack of wisdom’ jokes now.  I can take it.
3. I don’t like to be in the dark.  I insist on a night-light in my bedroom.  This is one of the (many?) things I’ve never outgrown from childhood.
4. I can’t get a tan.  I go from almost transparent to red and back again.  There is no in between.
5. I unapologetically say ‘on accident’ instead of ‘by accident’.  I actually did some research on this a short time ago and it seems to be a bit of a regional thing.  I try to use correct grammar, but this is just one of those things I’m not willing to worry about.  Plus, it’s fun irritating a certain someone by saying it MY way.  Heh.
6. I love milk.  I mean, really love it.  Yes, I know, cow’s milk is for calves, not people…yada yada yada.  I don’t care.  I love my moo juice.  Maybe I’ve developed multiple stomachs like cows have…that would explain a lot.  Regardless, I will almost always choose milk over any other beverage.

I guess that takes care of that.  I’m supposed to tag random people, but I’m going to unrandomly tag people I know.  :-)  These people are as follows:

Joy at Overflowing Acres
Heather at Beloved Books
Nancy B at Homeschooling is Life!
Dianna at Through the Eyes of Happy Apple
Gina at The Christian Mom’s Outlet
Maggie at Maggie’s Place

Maybe I’m just in a weird mood due to every part of my body but my right ear being in pain from a brutal kick-boxing workout last night…but this is the kind of thing that cracks me up.

Don’t let the website address worry you - it’s worth the visit. Note the ‘unforeseen circumstances’ reference. HA!

http://www.astrologicalmagazine.com/