So adorable! If the video doesn’t play here on my blog, click here.

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Luckily, Briar only ate ONE poisonous leaf, and vomiting is what kept her from having to go to the emergency vet hospital. Even the ER vet was like, “The leaf? Normal animals eat the berries. Is your dog perhaps mentally retarded?” I mean she didn’t use those words, but it was you know, implied.

Every year, I rip out all the belladonna/deadly nightshade in our backyard, because I don’t want my pets to eat it! I wait until it flowers, so it’s easier to find the vines, and then spend a whole day destroying it. None of my animals, including Briar, has ever eaten the leaves. According to the contents of her stomach which I pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle, she went around and ate three separate leaves from different plants.

Hey dog, if you’re trying to science your way to something edible, try eating them ONE at a time, so you know which one made you puke. Now I know why that volcano she built for the science fair was an utter disaster.

So when I found a slug in our bag of lettuce, I brought him outside and set him down, and sure enough, he poked his little eyes out and began cruising along at reckless grandma speeds, excited to find new leaves that he hadn’t been refrigerated on top of for over a week.

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If anyone knows the original source of this photo, please let me know. I’d love to credit them!

(I may have shared this before–I can’t find it, though, and I found it again and re-fell in re-love with it.)

That gate that I made throws some pretty neat shadows!

The whole comic is behind the cut:

]]> http://plunderpuss.net/wordpress/quick-note-about-watermarks/feed/ 2 http://plunderpuss.net/wordpress/kickspam/ http://plunderpuss.net/wordpress/kickspam/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 16:36:46 +0000 PussInBoots http://plunderpuss.net/wordpress/?p=2513 Snippets, a kids’ magazine run by the non-profit organization I volunteer at, needs only $344 $264 $129 by Sunday night to be funded!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whatcomyoungwriters/publish-talented-young-writers-in-whatcom-county

Snippets provides kids with a chance to see what it’s like being a real writer. Some are given revision requests, and many are published. There’s even a reading & signing at Village Books.

When I was a kid, I didn’t have access to any special writing clubs that would promote craft, and there was only one magazine my teachers knew of that children could be published in. I really wish I could have had more opportunities to learn about taking writing seriously as well as for fun, and Whatcom Young Writers does that. If you remember what I remember, if you also wish that opportunity had been present for you, take a moment and a couple bucks to make this possible for the kids I work with.

We all appreciate it!

I’m a facilitator at an after-school writing club for teens (and pre-teens if they know the secret password). I forgot my composition book last week, so I didn’t have anything to write in… except the three sketchbooks in my bag. So I pulled out my new Comics! book, which is comics only, and used our daily writing prompt (which is the contents of the first word balloon) to make a comic.

Click to make it big enough to actually read it!

TL;DW: She was upstairs and didn’t realize the house was on fire; if Cain hadn’t alerted her, she would have been trapped in a fire that took 70 firefighters to put out. When she got outside, she realized Cain wasn’t with her. So she put her robe over her face and went back in for him. <3

If the video doesn’t load or you want to read the article, go here. Thanks to Patrick for sending me the link!