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… on a crushing disappointment

March 14, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

Clearly Mother Nature has underestimated our newly-minted intrepid reporter. Uh… he knows math! There are not 24 inches of snow out there and, as the darkness envelopes the newly fallen whiteness, Marshal is being totally pissy and he refuses to do his last report. He said something about taking his squeaker lobster and going home, but he is home, so I don’t know where he is going (but he says that it is not back ‘out’). So I called in the reserves. Journalism […]

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… on checking in!

March 14, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

Okay, here’s the deal. It’s snowing. Still. Apparently, in New York City, they are disappointed because they are only getting a ‘glancing blow’ because Stella is proving to be a ‘blizzard bust’. Glancing blows and blizzard busts don’t really take full advantage of the whole State of Emergency thing I guess, and this is not good. I went over to abcnews.com and found out that there are various videos available, including ‘New Yorkers play golf, have snowball fights in storm’ and […]

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… on the scamp and birthdays

March 13, 2017 by Lisa Dingle

I looked it up. Scamping is being mischievous in an endearing, a playful, or naughty way. Actually, I don’t think ‘scamping’ is a word. Scamp is though. And Marshal Dillon Dingle is one. Hence, when Marshal is being Marshal, he is – indeed – scamping. That just makes sense. You know that term in the rescue world, ‘failed foster’? The one that is used to describe a dog (or cat, bird, alligator…) that is placed in a foster home and then never leaves? Well, Marshal […]

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