Motion Sensor Camera for Wildlife
Want to put a motion sensor camera in the woods to view wildlife? Here are some tips.
Safety Gate for Pellet Stove
So here’s a tip for anyone who owns a pellet stove (or a wood stove, for that matter). We have a pellet stove in our living room. We also have dogs and occasionally take care of other people’s dogs. Our pooches know to stay away from the hot stove, but we were worried that others may accidentally fall against the hot glass if they are wrestling too energetically. I started searching for ‘pellet stove gate’ or ‘pellet stove child gate’…
How Does Facebook Know I Know These People?
I just learned something interesting about Facebook. I got an invitation to join from a friend of mine I knew from Boston. He now lives on the west coast. At the bottom of the email it had a section of ‘Other people you may know on Facebook.’ And it listed:two people I know from my churchone person who is another dog walker I see at the parka friend of the family who is recently graduated from collegea woman who was…
Rebuilding the Gear Box for a Whitfield Advantage Pellet Stove
My husband and I recently went through hoops to try to figure out why our Whitfield pellet stove stopped feeding pellets. One of the things I did was take the cover off the gear box and remove all the cogs. When I did this I could see that one of the gears had worn teeth, so we’ve ordered a new gear box and motor. I’ve read on a webpage that some people take apart their gear box without making a…
Hoot & Annie (a/k/a the Nifflers)
Hoot & Annie, the Nifflers, were the only survivors of a litter of 10. Their mother was my first rat Priscilla and their father was a wild rat.
Priscilla and Abagail—My First Rats
Priscilla and Abagail will always hold a dear spot in my heart, for they were my first pet rats and introduced me to how cool these critters as pets are.
How they came to live with me is a little unusual.
Making Shelf Boxes from Plexiglass
After building the ratty grotto and annex, the biggest problem turned out to be how to keep the shelves clean. My ratties did not get the litter box concept at all, which isn’t too kind on the nose. I tried fabric liners
Building the Ratty Grotto
When a week after we took in a couple of stray rats and one of them had 10 babies, it was clear the cage I bought from Craig’s List wasn’t going to cut it. (These were tame white rats that had ended up outdoors, but the father was probably a wild rat). Not knowing anything about rat ownership, I did a lot of Googling. I found this really cool website that describes how to build a "cage" out of a…
Harry Potter and Hob
My husband and I are huge Harry Potter fans. Recently we drove down to New York to visit my two nephews (reading The Goblet of Fire aloud in the car, I might add). At their house, my husband showed me a library book that was laying around. It was called "The Book of Hob Stories" by a British author named William Mayne. The thing that caught his eye (and mine) was the title of a chapter, “Hob and the Hinky…
Pet Exercise Wheel Review
If you search in forums for exercise wheels, there are lots and lots of different opinions about which are better. And I’ve discovered as I’ve researched, different wheels are definitely better for different pets. So here is my review of exercise wheels