"AND I DIDN'T GET A CUPCAKE, ARE YOU KIDDIN' ME?!"

 

Chai, you live in Seattle with Sami and Edwin.
We are in Bellinghamshire, 90'ish miles north!
Now, you do the math...
(cuz mom sure can't! WHEEK!)
love, Bhindi

OH, FAIRY, YOU FUNNY-SWEET LITTLE PIGGIE!

 

Everyone Invited to Fairy's House for our Party!!!
(P.S. Her mum became an Espresso EXPERT!)
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

IT'S A BIG WORLD OUT THERE, ISN'T IT?

 

For mom's birthday, she's getting cuddles
and cupcakes from all of us, one at a time.
She couldn't ask for more!
(Well, she could ask us to share the cupcakes...)

TODAY IS MARIGOLD'S BIRTHDAY! APRIL 20, 2012

 

KNOW WHAT'S FUNNY?

 

Mom's memory so bad now she can't
remember which pics of me are already
on the blog, so you probably gonna get
to see me lots and lots and over and
over again 'cuz now when she looks
at the blog, she says, "that sure does
look familiar" and the rest of us CRACK
UP! cuz she just posted the same picture
three times already!!! It not her fault.
but don't expect us to stop laughing at her.
still funny.
please just act like you are seeing us for
the first time and everything will be o.k.
(just laugh. it's easier that way, believe me!)
loves,
Bhindi the Baffled

MEERI-BOY: IN MEMORIUM

 

 

 

IN MEMORIAM
 

MEERI-BOY
OF
BAVARIA...
APRIL 20, 2012


YOU ARE SO MISSED ALREADY...
OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO
INGRID, HELMUT, AND TO MEERI'S
SEVEN "WIVES"


although we still remain unable to
post comments on our own blog (?!)
please feel free to leave messages
to Ingrid and Helmut here...


Our hearts are wrapped around you
Our tears mingled with yours
Our grief inseparable
Our love indistinguishable.


You were there for us.
Please do not hesitate to let
us know how we can soothe your
pain, if we can, or if not just
know we are holding your
hand, hugging you, and our
shoulders at the ready for you
to bury tearful faces into...
It's still so open, our own wounds
we don't have to even remember to
know how it feels.
So many you don't even know, Ingrid,
so many are here for you, too.


Love Infinite is Shining from Him...
now that he is free.
And where we all one day shall be.

WHADDA-WHADDA-WHADDA CUPCAKE...FOR ME?

 

Bhindi, we have accidentally posted two posts 
about cake without even realizing it! THIS POST
IS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE ALREADY, O.K.?


What else is there?


Readers, please help us out? What else is there?
(no existentialists allowed!)
love,
we blog, therefore we are. we think. we are. something. else.
but, what else?
WHAT PART OF "NO EXISTENTIALISTS"
DON'T WE UNDERSTAND?!

CONSULTING PIRATE CONSULATE GENERAL ON TOPIC: CAKE!

 

YUM-YUM, WHERE OUR BIRTHDAY CAKE, MAN?

CHEW, CHEW, CHEW THEM BARS, THEM BARS!
 

IS IT YOUR BIRTHDAY?
(AND WHAT UP WITH THAT BAR-CHEWING
ANYWAY, HE GOT OCD OR SUMPIN?)

 

MOM'S CAKE, YUM-YUM,
YOU OF ALL PIRATES SHOULD 
KNOW THAT BY NOW!

 

SERIOUSLY, WHY ARE WE NOT
PLYING THE OPEN SEAS AS PIRATES
IN SEARCH OF CAKE TO PLUNDER?
YOU SURE ARE A CALM PIRATE
THESE DAYS...


 

HEY! THIS IS MY CUTE FACE.
AREN'T I DARLING?
(Hey, viewers, you should
press some magic thing and
enlarge this picture to see my
CUTE FACE! OMG, sometimes
i just keel myself with my own beauty! Do you ever do that?)
YUM-YUM!
CAKE? PLY THE WATERS?
PLUNDER-ASUNDER?
JUST LOOK AT MY FACE!
WHADDA-WHADDA-WHADDA?!



 

Been through a lotta herds in my time
but gotta say, this one...eh?!
Kinda different...kinda dif-fer-ent!
Still got MY GOOD LOOKS, THOUGH!
eh? oh yeah, baby, I'm still the one!

CAKE?!?

 

WHERE CAKE?


 

LET'S GET CAKE! AND VINNI!
 
NO CAKE?!

 

GOTTA BE CAKE! GONNA FIND IT!

 

GONNA KEEP LOOKIN' IN HERE. CAKE?
WHERE YOU AT? CAKE? CAKE?

 

BHINDI GONNA FIND CAKE!
C'MON CAKE, C'MON!
WHERE YOU AT, CAKE?
SHOW YOUR PRETTY SELF
CUZ I CAN'T STRETCH MUCH MORE!


 

WHY I IN MY CAGE?

 

LEMME OUT!
GOTTA GET CAKE!


 

IS THIS CAKE?

 

NO! IT A HAY-FLOWER.
NOT BAD, THOUGH.

 

NO CAKE IN MY BOX...

 

YO! YUM-YUM, HOW YOU
SO CALM? GOT CAKE?


 

OOH! OOH! IT GOTTA
BE IN HERE! OOH! OOH!
GONNA DIG AND DIG
TILL I GETS IT ALL!
OOH, OOH, YEAH, DIG!

 

 

 

HUH...DIG DEEPER...
STAND ON MY TUNNEL!

 

 

NO CAKE.
YUM-YUM?
NO CAKE.
BHINDI?
NO CAKE.


{It is not Saturday, cake will not be served 
until Saturday and will consist of green, orange,
yellow, and pretty things all to be found and gobbled up!}


NOTE TO FRIENDS:
WE LOST OUR GMAIL WITH THE CAKE CUZ GOOGLE
REMADE ITSELF AND, LIKE MOM, PROMPTLY LOST
ITSELF AND CANNOT LOCATE OUR GMAIL, ISN'T THAT FINE?
PLEASE BE PATIENT. WE LOVE YOU BUT GOOGLE: WHY?
SERIOUSLY, WHY!!!!!!???????

MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT...

 

Hey y'all, it's me. This pic from "Before the Fall."
Still, it me on the inside cuz nothing can break that, right?
This blog all about guinea pigs but I wanna tell ya a little 
sumpin-sumpin about myself cuz I gonna ask you for 
a little sumpin-sumpin in a minute and I want you to 
understand what it means to me and why.


You might say in some ways I led a "charmed life."
My birthday is April 21, same as John Muir.
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings,"
he said.
So I did.
And I've been blessed to enjoy an amazing career as
a freelance wildlife photographer, writer, and environmental
educator with mentors the likes of Ansel Adams! Yupper!
And a funny, funny staff photographer from NEWSWEEK
magazine who was mortified the first time he saw me walk into
an important editor's office with my photographs (portfolio) all
shoved into a J.C. Penney's bag!
Travelled around the country, got to know lots of amazing,
famous people who felt it was a privilege to mentor a 20-something upstart with chutzpah who was too stupid to think she couldn't possibly succeed (gotta say, not many wimmins back then!)
 The more burly-Game&Fish-Outdoor Life men-men who
told me I would never make it were the best teachers of all, they
only made me work harder and harder. 
In 1986, I was on the verge of producing my first television documentary for a Conservation Foundation and planned to break out later with a series about outdoor women making a difference.
This was still back in the 1980's, remember...I was also a full-time student at the University of Iowa School of Journalism (wasn't fair the writers got all the $ so was gonna do that, too!) and pulling 3 jobs to support myself, all photography, art, and natural history related.
 I became incurably ill. At the age of 30. People said, if ya
can't travel far, you'd love the Pacific Northwest. 
~~~
Moved out here to a wildlife refuge but smashed my head 
pretty good a few years ago then did an encore six weeks later.
Couldn't stand, walk, talk, or think crooked-or-straight after that!

Now I seek out guinea pigs to get their good
tidings but I'm a happy girl who wouldn't change a thing
except for wishing all the piggies were still here with Bhindi,
Vinni-Valli, and YumYum...


Not bad for a lifetime though, huh? AND 
THE BEST FRIENDS ANYONE COULD ASK FOR
IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!
WU-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


Every year, my bff comes up from Seattle.
Her birthday is on April 19 and mine's the 21st
but her car broke and my head feeling broke
so figured I'd ask YOU TO CELEBRATE FOR US:


PLEASE CONSIDER SEEING THIS CHIMPANZEE
FILM OPENING FRIDAY OR ANY OF THE FILMS
ABOUT THREATENED, ENDANGERED, OR
POTENTIALLY EXTINCT WILDLIFE.


THEY WERE/ARE MY LIFE'S WORK, MY PASSION, MY LOVE. BUT THERE'S VERY LITTLE OF "ME" ANYMORE. SO...


PLEASE LIGHT MY BIRTHDAY CANDLES WITH 
THE FLAME IN YOUR HEARTS!


Thanks.
love,
Chana


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Nature, with some cute polar bears, stars in Earth Day films – USATODAY.com

Nature, with some cute polar bears, stars in Earth Day films – USATODAY.com

^^^SNEAK PEEK!^^^
EXTRAORDINARY, EVERY ONE OF THEM!

PLEASE SEE THIS REMARKABLE FILM THE FIRST WEEK IT COMES OUT (THIS FRIDAY)

Disneynature | Disney

Disneynature will make a donation to the Jane Goodall Institute to protect chimpanzees today
and tomorrow. Their future depends upon us and
after one year of filming in the wild, the project
took on an extraordinary, unexpected twist...
Something rarely seen, even to Jane Goodall.
If possible, please make the effort, you won't 
regret it and once you see the chimps, you will
actually really love yourself for it! AND THEM!