The No Junk Food Challenge

Found this on Facebook:

Do you think I can do this for 21 days? How about the whole family?

Maybe I'll start Monday...

:)

Brrrr.... Cold!

Mr. Robin isn't too certain about all those starlings bathing in the bio-falls, but he finally decides to join them. Poor birdies... so cold that the pond is frozen over and there's no place to get a drink.

I don't understand why those starlings are bathing in this freezing weather.

But I'm really thirsty, so...

At least there's ice to stand on.

And then I decided I needed an overview picture of the frozen pond. But what the heck? Are those footprints?

Who's been walking on the pond?

I went outside to investigate...

Mya, walking on top of the net on the frozen pond.

:)

Meet Mya

Well, we've had her for a couple months already, but I like to document our household changes here. So meet Mya.

Molly adopted her in October from ACCT in Philly. She's 3 years old, but acts more like a puppy. She's full of energy and loves to pick on poor Porter and bark at the dogs next door.

Mya is also a bit of an escape artist. I think we've finally got her escape hatches all closed off, but we still keep a close eye on her.

She's nowhere near as smart as Porter, but she never had any kind of training. Molly's working with her and we sure hope she'll soon stop jumping on us and leaping over the gates in the house.

But in spite of her bad behavior, Mya is very affectionate and loves to cuddle and give kisses. So welcome, Mya. One more addition to our full household.

Catch of the Day

Harry: Waiter, what's the catch of the day? Koi? Hmmmm, don't mind if I ...

Portey, running like hell: birdbirdbirdbirdbirdbird gottagettabird gottagettabird gottagettabird ... oh, crap, where'd he go?

Harry: Hmm, nice view from up here.

Betsy: I'm going to get my good camera so we can get a better picture.

Harry: Damn paparazzi! I do believe I will patronize a more accommodating establishment.

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Grammar police on duty

I saw this picture on Facebook and it got me thinking.

I've been struggling a bit with all the grammar, punctuation, spelling and usage mistakes in my Kindle books. Even real published print books tend to have mistakes in them, books that have presumably been edited by a real editor.

What's up with that?

Why is it even book publishers are making errors now?

And what can I, one lonely grammar nazi, do about it?

Should I circle the errors in printed books and fax them to the publisher? Should I email the self-published authors and point out the multitude of errors in their e-books?

Or should I do what I've been doing, just shrug and sigh and move on?

I'm frustrated. How about you?