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Wanted to tell you about all the cool giveaways on our main site… just for signing up before July 14th, 2008 you could be eligible to win a large star and corner of fame (value $79.80) in the Million Dollar Time Capsule for pets to “Make Your Pet a Star”! It’s a free sign-up, so you should check it out.

With email messages circulating about fatal spider bites from the Brown Recluse spider and the appearance of many other types of spiders with the warm spring weather, questions about spiders are never far from ones mind… and certainly not questions about how to keep a spider a s a pet! There is no doubt that we are fascinated by spiders despite our real or imagined fears and that many people do get spiders as pets.

People in northern regions

Anyway… I’m still chuckling at the bird poop facial segment (yes and no). No, it’s not the birds that get facials. But if you’re involved in the going-green movement, meaning reuse recycle etc., then this new “product” and service found at an upscale New York day spa will perhaps make you go green in other ways… either green with envy or green with nausea.

Some people in the neighborhood have passed out leaflets explaining how peppermint oil liberally applied to deck rails can keep the seagulls and pigeons away… the peppermint is not agreeable to the birds. I will not be doing that. While I do not encourage the birds’ visits by feeding them, I enjoy their visits. Being on the water’s edge means there are many birds about, but it seems that only Fred and his mate visit… and ever so briefly each time. No mess, no fuss, just loveliness.
Seeing the birds busy nesting reminds me of a great story…