Their First Night Back...

Owls Have Returned to the Box This Fine Sunday Night 11-13-10

Wow, Could there be a 3rd Clutch? Only time will tell,have seen several owls tonight, Molly for sure, I really can't say who all else showed up. I think in this picture the two inside the box are Molly & Mc Gee. When she went in it was like she owned the place, hardly touched the porch an her approach. They have been in there about 10 min as I write.

ERIC BLEHM WILL HAVE HIS NEW WEBSITE UP: SO HAPPY I CAN FLY!

Dear MODS,

GUESS WHAT? After 40 days and 40 nights on Mt. Whatever in the High Sierras, the Dude FINALLY discovered his "inner guinea pig"

and on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15th, WILL DEBUT HIS NEW "Molly the Owl Books" website, only it will  feature stuff you MODS can all buy for ME, like fresh, organic hay (hand picked by the Blehmster hisself!) and soft cuddle-cups for apres-ski lounging, and, oooh! owl-shaped chew toys, and -

"Hamster?"

"NOT A HAMSTER, Blehm,  how many times we gotta go over this --??"

"HAMSTER!"

"WHAT? EXACTLY, WHAT?"

"Molly the Owl Books" is for MODS, not guinea pigs."

"excuse  you?"

"MODS, Not guinea pigs...thought we talked about that..."

"You mean THOSE BLOODY HORKIN' OWLS AGAIN!?  NOT ME? AFTER ALL THAT BONDING ON HIGH, YOU still TALKING 'BOUT THOSE OWLS? Seriously, Dude?"

"Not just about owls, it's for our MODS, man,  I love my MODS and the site will offer unique
Molly the Owl keepsakes, gifts, books, jewelry, puppets, T-shirts, mugs, key-chain ornaments, and
lots, lots more! Even an exciting new book series about the owlets after they fledge,  entitled ---"

"ERIC, YOU VEX ME!"

"This is a good thing: the MODS all miss Molly and and we all  miss each other,
this is my way of helping us all stay together, you know? Friends For Life! This site is what's known as
(pause for angelic trumpets blowing from On High, exact  GPS location unknown, just UP There
SOMEWHERE!)


"MOLLY THE OWL BOOKS" IS A GOOD THING, HAMSTER! ALL GOOD, ALL THE TIME!"

"Eric?"

"Ya, dude? You'll LOVE the site, it's going to be INCREDIBLE! There will be way more than owls, even
 little animals, like you! We're going to have - "

"Eric?"

"Ya?

"You see my Magic Flying Snowboard that I was so happy riding a few minutes ago?"

"Yeah, kinda strange color, but pretty cool that it flies, in fact --"

"INCOMING! INCOMING highly-vexed guinea pig riding MAGIC  FLYING FLOURESCENT GREEN SNOWBOARD AIMED DIRECTLY FOR --- "
?!@#$%**!! (oooooooH! NOT PRETTY....ewwwwwooooH!)
Hamster not good aviator.

Fortunately, New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm was wearing his Happy Mountain Hat with its Magical Blue Protective-Shield thingy and YumYum landed safely in his waiting arms and they all lived happily ever after.

or DID THEY?...stay tuned! And don't be surprised if  BlehmsterDude joins us Friday for Molly Movie Night since he has generously donated special surprise Molly goodies from his Magical Owl Box
to reward winners of our Molly Movie Trivia Contests!
{Only guinea pigs may apply.}

SEE YA'S THERE!

!@??###*?! (ewwwwww!)

Another Autumn Poem

AUTUMN

Scarlet leaves, a peach-red sky,

Summer breeze whispers goodbye.

Cooler evenings, shorter days,

No more lazy summer ways.

Orange pumpkins, yellow corn,

Hills, like sheep, now bare and shorn.

Apples crisp as cold night air,

Signs of autumn everywhere.

Honking geese fly be in vees,

Brown leaves flutter from the trees.

Huge and ivory harvest moon,

Rainy days will be here soon.

Wondrous autumn, changling child,

Stormy now, then soft and mild.

What magic moments we may find

When we leave tranquil days behind.

Beyond the tangerine-hued dawn,

Autumn's bounty marches on.

Cheryl Gordon

new owl creation ....

my barn owl was admired way back when my artwey exhibition was on ... and i have agreed to make another for a Christmas present ...



i love doing the embroidery and using glittery thread for a bit of sparkle ...



but who is this new barn owl, that is appearing ?

Winning Caption was from Tricia Young

Carl Partridge	Remember the moments that took your breath away
Tammy Dunn (Ctamgo)	Pssst..the top of his head looks just like Little Sis Jody’s helmet head when she was hatching.
Carol Ditkof (cjvd23)	Cary and Ashley:  Hey there Carlos - you seem to think you what we are up to in here but if you only had a clue what was really happening!!!!!  You may think we are talking to each other about the next time mom will be here and what dad is bringing for dinner but we are actually talking about all the people who are watching us and telling us how cute we are!!!!!
Tricia Young	Gee Ash, someone really preened him a little tooo much don't cha think?
mk-inwa	A Penny For Your Thoughts
DeeAnn Matson	I wonder if they can hear him???
Linda (Braveheart)	Cary: Ashley did you hork up Carlos or was it me ?
Christine Peters (kilkenny_cat)	Oh, Ashley, I think you're right; he's wearing Donna's shirt again.
	Hey Ashley, do you think he will get me some coffee, coffee, cooofffeee?"
John Herrick (John_StPete_Fla)	Where is his cute fuzzy head like ours?
Jennifer O’Hara (jennifer02000)	Hey Sis, did you just hear that guy mention our names?
Colleen Guetti (CollovesMolly)	"Aww, Ashley...I thought he was making that coffee for ME!"
Grace Cangialosi (gracecan)	Carlos, those pj bottoms you think you're hiding fit right in with our gag shag & are causing what's left of our fuzzy scalp hair to stand straight up in shock!!
Judy (sunza)	Carlos, thos pj bottoms you think you’re hiding fit right in with our gag shag and are causing what’s left of our fuzzy scalp hair to stand straight up in shock!!
Jennifer Olds (ohiocrazycatlady)	Carrie, that weird guy is in our box again. I hope he is going to do the deet, deet, deet thing. Ashley, do you think he would get me some coffee?
msvonhuff	Ashley: When was that dropped off ??    Carrie: “Ewww … It’s still alive !!”  Ashley:  “Furless ratzilla??   I got dibbs  …………  kill it for me Carrie !”
Kezia Stansbury	Carlos: Blah Blah Molly McGee Blah Blah Ashley: What's he screeching? Carrie: It's definitely not Molly language.
Ann Richards	Ashley: "He sure has a funny accent when he says 'deet, deet, deet!
Suzanne Rumsey	Ashley, my coffee, where’d you get my coffee, cause I’m seeing things. I don’t like it. Ashley. Is café press a planet? Have we left the solar system? Is that an alien? Oh,  Ashley
JoEllen LaPrade	Carrie, do you suppose Cafe Press has a shirt like that in our size
Linda Brenizer (Hrbrenizer)	Carrie, we are COD's (Carlos Obsessive Disorder). We cannot stop watching Carlos!
Yvonne	There he goes again Ashley, He's talking about leaving us and going on a longgggg trip on his BIG BUS." "That's ok Carrie, Mr. Royal doesn't know that we already have a hiding place on his BIG BUS when he leaves, hahahahaha"!!
Glenna	OMG, Ashzilla, is that FOOD?
Nanci Maxim	You know Carrie, we need to get a satellite dish. We are only getting one channel with cable and I am really getting tired of listening to this guy.
Deb Hufnagle	Geez, Carrie, what did you eat to make a hork in a Hawaiian shirt?

Sylvia and I each selected our 7 favorites. We compared notes and chose the 4 entries that we had both put on our favorites list. Then the MODs at Molly Movie Night voted during the show for their favorite.  

Finalists

A. Gee, Ash, someone really preened him a little tooo much don't cha think?

B. I wonder if they can hear him???

C. Remember the moments that took your breath away.

D. Geez, Carrie, what did you eat to make a hork in a Hawaiian shirt?

Winner: A, 19 votes; B, 3 votes; C, 4 votes; D, 13 votes

A Reminisce- by charb

The Owl Box~ Where are all the lovely people who posted and lurked at the Owl Box? We were an unlikely crowd- held together by the goings on of a family of owls living in an owl box in San Marcos, Ca. I blundered onto this site after seeing a video on TV one night. I was immediately hooked. We all watched through the laying and hatching of Austin, Pattison, Max, and Wesley.

Who will forget owlet Austin first success at swallowing a little mouse whole. To us he was little, but to Austin he was huge. Austin was so tiny, that the mouse was near the same size. It took Austin quite a while, but bit by bit, , after attacking it from many directions, Austin got the hang of it, and swallowed the whole thing! Upon completion of swallowing down the last tip of the tail, poor Austin was so tired- and weighted down in his craw, that he just lay there with his little head too heavy to raise off the floor of the nest! He looked dazed!

And who can forget with the first clutch how constant and dedicated poppa McGee was each night, bringing offering after offering to Molly who was busy tending to the nest. He was so diligent that Molly often had 2 or 3 or more extra rodents stashed off to the side in an overflowing larder of food.

And Molly, herself, the tender, attentive parent carefully pulling off very small pieces of flesh and patiently feeding, one by one, each of her babies. The largest first, until it was sated, and then down the line to the smallest, who she carefully fed with the same patience shown the first baby.

Guy rescues baby hummingbird after it was attacked.

http://www.wimp.com/babyhummingbird/
 SENT BY
sKatrPie

CARL AND JANIE PARTRIDGE IS MY GRANDPIGpARENTZ: MODS FOR LIFE!

Hi MODS,

If you have not already met me, my name is little Mac Nut Pie Thingy Pig. How did I come
about? Well, it's a MODish story, goes a little something like this: a long time ago, two
MODS, Janie and Carl Partridge Family, attended a luau and told all the rest of the MODS
on the Social Stream how much fun they had! O.K. And Papa insisted he did not eat the
Pig: "I had fish," he said. O.K.

Then Janie informed 1Skatr that she had brought home six of the tastiest macadamia nut
pie tarts from the luau, just for her! Then Carl ate them.
Then 1Skatr felt wronged, seriously damaged by this heinous crime.
And never let Carl (aka Skatr'sPapa) forget it! EVAH!

After some time, Papa felt remorse. Or so the story goes.
(WeThinks Mama and Kestra might be the RemorseWhisperers, but that's Papa's story and
he's sticking to it.) Sad for eating 1Skatr's mac nut pie tartlet, he and JanieMama and Kestra
hatched a plan, a plan that did not exactly fledge as planned: they ordered a
WHOLE, FRESHLY-BAKED, MACADAMIA NUT PIE from Kona, Hawaii and shipped it
special Fed-X to assuage her grief. And told her to expect a special surprise! Which did,
of course, not arrive. Kinda like those tartlets that Mama originally brought home from the
luau...hmmm! Apparently, the address had two numbers switched, not so good when
you are shipping Fed-X to a Post Office box in a small town where the postman is already
dyslexic and INSISTS that Fed-X cannot deliver to a P.O. Box!

The days went by...no pie.

Then one day: PIE! MACADAMIA NUT PIE, ENCASED in a UPS box encased in a
Fed-X box encased in a box with many names and notes, and numbers and scratched
out numbers and new numbers...The pie was brought home, devoured, and devined.
In honor of Mama and Papa Partridge's effort, with Kestra's help, to exonerate Papa's
appetite, Mom then adopted me, little baby guinea pig, and named me Mac Nut Pie Thingy!
Lo! and Behold, MODS! Do I take after my grandPa, or what? Yup, I sleep in my
foodbowl and he soooo proud o'me!

So that's a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the Lives of MODS for LIFE, off the screen,
and the impact we continue to have in one another's lives, long after the cameras have
gone dark: I got rescued because Papa Partridge ate a mac nut pie tart thingy.

AND IT WAS GOOD!
WHO LOVES YA, BABY?
HORKS&HISSES&GUINEA PIG KISSES FROM ME AND YUM-YUM AND,
READ ON, THERE'S MORE GOOD NEWS!

Panda Pig's Peace Sanctuary: Way of the Guinea Pig!

Panda Pig's Peace Sanctuary: Way of the Guinea Pig!

"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty."
                                               ~ Albert Einstein

Dear MOD Brothers and Sisters,

This Post is dedicated to every one of you who rescue animals! You are all so beautiful in 
our eyes.If you press the red link, you will recognize why we MODS really ARE Friends
for LIFE! Thank you for allowing us to share our personal guinea pig blog with our OWLY
mates! While we are very private pigs, the holidays are coming up and we will sacrifice
our privacy to inspire any of you considering giving the gift of love by offering a Rescue
Animal, howsoever large or small, a home in your own heart. MODS ROCK!

WHO LOVES YA, BABY?!

YumYum and the 2 New Girls in the Herd!

2nd egg Woo Hoo !!!

Halloween @ 11pm

Candles Chat Room

Two Autumn Poems

PUMPKIN FIELD

Dimpled globes of deepes orange, nest in leaves of green and brown.

Stretched as far as you can see; the setting sun a golden crown.

Gather in the harvest now, winter's soon to come along.

Pumpkins started months ago from seeds planted one by one.

Fed and watered carefully, and coddled by the summer sun.

Now they're ready to be chosen for a lantern or a pie.

What is sown is what is ours, when bare branches fill the sky.

AUTUMN HARVEST

Apples, pumpkins, falling leaves.

Cold winds blow, wear long sleeves.

Trick or treat, the witches fly.

Thanks for joys and pumpkin pie.

Trees on fire, then gone bare.

Hint of rainstorms in the air.

Count your blessings, stars of white.

Pale blue day, gold moon tonight.

Cheryl Gordon

Phoebe's first night with Egg

Egg # 1 Humm Humm

Moving Egg

Egg in Afternoon of day !!!

She Happy Camper Now!!!!

Phoene's 1st egg this time around