harriet

“SAM! SAAAAAMMMM!! I know you're not sleeping, quit fooling around...”

I lay motionless, and looked directly into my pet human's eyes.... knowing exactly what was coming...

“Sammy, you rascal, …...just going out. Do not... I repeat DO NOT go on any adventures, and stay out of the barn, I know full well you've been in there, I've caught you 4 times this week, do I make myself understood?”

Of course I understood, which meant that I heard, “Don't get caught”

I came out of my fake nap pose and wiggled and jiggled my tail and pranced around the room with delight. I had the afternoon to myself!

By any standards Harriet was a nag. No real purpose left, she was retired, and never came out of the barn. Old, a bit arthritic, Harriet was half blind, deaf, and simply withdrawn from the barnyard. Every chance I got, I would go out to pull on her rope.

“We will probably have to take Harriet away, Sam, one day soon, she is lost to us, buddy” my pet human told me, a week ago. “When we can schedule her, we'll either call the Vet, or take her out for the last time, Sammy.”

The other horses were loose when the pet humans came home that day, roaming the yard, with me in the barn, pulling on Harriet's tether in my teeth. She looked down at me with sad eyes, more sniffing me, than seeing me, ignoring the humans as they walked up and scooped me up.

“Sammy, you are the most adventuresome critter God ever set on this planet. You are so naughty”.

So this day was no different, when my pet pulled up, there was another car behind, the horse Vet, come to take Harriet away from us, I knew.

They had caught me again, pulling on her rope for all I was worth, determined that if I could just get Harriet to understand, that if I could get her to move, and come out of her stall, I'd run away with her, and we could ride and enjoy the sunshine, and the humans would know she was still alive, they wouldn't take her away from me.  I was desperate. “Come on Harriet, let's go!” I cried to her.

Harriet sniffed me.

Harriet sniffed the air.

And Harriet yanked her head up, carrying me roofward all of a motion.

Since I didn't let go of the rope, when she jerked up, I flipped upward, and landed squarely on Harriet's head.

And Harriet walked out of that barn right past the pet human, and Vet, both wide eyed.

They knew, Harriet knew, and I knew.  Harriet would be with us for many more rides, even if she'd only carry a critter. 

“Silly ferret” Harriet said to me. “I wanted to carry you. I wanted you to ride ~ not pull on my rope.”

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q r code

think of a QR code as a sign that points the way from the virtual to the physical world... a sign that is creating a revolution in the U.S. mobile phone market

we can post a QR code to each post, not just to our blog.

for instance, a member of #blogchat  has a blog, and her last two posts are on Palin and An Alma Mater article.  we were in #blogchat and i mentioned using a QR code, not just for one's home page, but also for each post.  and Shannanners

                                           http://twitter.com/shannanners

replied asking for clarification, so i whipped together this blog post, not too bad for a sarcastic ferret: 

                                           Here is the first on Palin:  

                                           Here is her Alma Mater QR Code

thus, she can  a.  "save image as"  the above code (right click with mouse)
                      b.   insert the image into the bottom of each post


and is now ready to direct people with smartphones, iPhones or webenabled phones to those pages.

in conclusion, we can adapt the QR  code to each URL.

Create Your own QR Code by Entering the URL Of your Blog Post

Text for QR Code:

happy blogging.

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funny animal cartoons

just wanted to post this link to some funny animal cartoon captions .....
you know, in case i am not funny enough for ya!

http://www.cuteanimals4you.com/2010/06/animal-cartoons.html

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i wuv u haters

  ferrets dance, we wiggle, we are hard to depress, normal things don't get us down like they might a human pet.  sure we don't like it when humans try to steal our ill gotten loot;  but that isn't going to get us upset.  if i steal your sock, you should just move on, it's mine.

  so i have a few haters, yea.  it really rankles them that i wiggle, i giggle and stay sarcastic at all hours of the day and night.  i could easily fall into the trap of hating back.  "sam, you can't sing, you must be tone deaf"  i just got a tweet like that a few minutes ago.....

  various replies come to mind:  "neither can you..."   or  "your momma sings pretty well"  or another traditional reply  "&%#@ You"  might work well here.

  regular readers know i keep a clean profile, and even in my worst state of mind, i don't resort to that type of language.

                       

  haters hate it when  we don't hate back.  it's remarkable they even try..  how do they explain that rationally to their colleagues or spouse...

   "jim, what ya doin'? what's got you so worked up....?"

    jim:  "oh, this darn ferret on twitter, always dancing and bragging he's so awesome, and good lookin...  can't stand this critter..."

   colleague or spouse:  "let me see...."  leans over laptop...
 
   "well he is mighty cute..."

   jim:  "not you too!"

   "jim, you probably need therapy...."

    it is quite possible that there is something wrong with jim, but who am i to point out that he's arguing with a ferret?


    i can't help it God made me so good lookin'.

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Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

 
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 

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OMG!!!

                                               Unique Cute Ferret
                                           brown markings so different

   my personal photographer, and fellow mayan contact on twitter, Penelope @PenelopePhoto   found these photos of ferrets in her travels... and well, they speak for themselves, i cannot take credit for any of it, the work is in a portfolio, you absolutely HAVE to see this:

http://abduzeedo.com/%25C3%25BCber-cute-pictures-ferrets

footnote: StupidcatDesign Sent in the same link... ferrets are gaining in popularity by their mesmerizing cuteness!!!  go critters

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there can never be enough of a good thing

  blogspot provides easy to read stats, and is very search engine worthy, since it is owned by almighty god...errrr i mean Google, the search engine giant.   this stat screenshot  was at midnight after most of you went to bed, and even then it shows 9 "views" .... 

        multiple outlets for our voice is key

   i had opened an account at blogger.com  which is a hub of sorts for all blog connections; and i have been looking for another blog or two to open.  my social media coach seems to think i can handle cut/paste pretty well.  

@hylamolander informed me she had over 70k views on  http://scribd.com  i moved over there with my awesomely useless, vitally inneffective dating tips, hopefully there will be no police involved in the taking thereof too seriously.   even more recently @alikat747 has encouraged some of this cross-marketing herself

  two points are important to bloggers:

      a.  if you are comfortable where you are, open another blog somewhere else, and cut/paste the entire contents to your new blog, adding a page a day so as not to bombard your new set of readers.  no point in turning them off before you get to know them. but definately open a new blog today

      b.  use the stats feature provided by the vender, in this case google because you can develop "key times"  to post your new blog entry

in another article, i read what we have all probably suspected, that the best time to post a blog "tweet" is between 4 and 5 Eastern Standard Time.  there are other peak times, say between 10 and 11 am EST, and of course Friday at rush hour.

  my own statistics mirror the results of the article, and i have taken advantage of these "trends" to enlarge my blog following, and to promote other people's blogs.

       i blog primarily for my own entertainment  purposes, and actually nap and dance for a living.   i am also thinking of taking up training masseuses;  teaching them how to dress, giving them tips on technique and the all important art of the oil rub down...

      now if i could just get my manic uncle freddie to quit driving through  my flower beds with his lawnmower....