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November Searches

Written on December 1, 2009 by D.K. Wall in Kiska, Natasha, Squirrels, The Thundering Herd

Wow, another whole month has come and gone. So Happy December everyone.

Last month, we did a blog post on some of the stranger search phrases that led people to our website. We got lots of comments on that post and a number of you emailed us about it as well. So, we are taking our November report and looking for the best phrases. Remember, someone used Google or Yahoo or one of the other search engines, entered this phrase, and then connected to our website during the month of November by following the search engines results. Scary huh?

Squirrels for peace – The SECOND highest search phrase. The only higher phrase was Thundering Herd. Who are all of you people? What are you looking for?

And keeping with the squirrel theme, we really liked Squirrel assault courses for sale. The other squirrel theme searches we liked were: Pictures of shedding squirrels; I had a dream with my dog catching a white squirrel; and This is how to relax squirrels.

Importance of stretching – Chuckling. Wonder how many people Natasha has distracted from their exercise program with this post?

Variations on the I-40 Rockslide – And, no, I-40 is still not open and the current estimate is that it will reopen in February or later. It is going to be a very long winter for a lot of businesses in the area and sure makes some trips really challenging.

Hair flowing in the wind – Go Kiska

Western North Carolina husky dogs sled team – Did you happen to see us in the Jeep one day?

Our holiday themes – Thanksgiving thoughts for difficult siblings and Thanksgiving adult beverage. We don’t know if the same person entered both searches, but, if they did, we are betting it was our hu-dad’s sister. Just saying.

And our Thundering Herd theme searches:

Thundering Herd wrestling club

Thundering Herd rumors

Thundering Herd art

Thundering Herd military

Raining and Thundering Herd

What species is the Thundering Herd – We resent that one.

Thundering Herd sandwich – Ruh–roh

Finally, we conclude with our list of what in the world were you looking for?

Picture of a dog that is not a detective – We are assuming that is Dennis the Vizsla Dog

What is close supervision

Did Marco Polo have a mom

Picture of a river with a clock in it

Time apple skunk

Trippy snow picture

Many of you commented that you were going to share your favorite searches in your own blogs. Please do so. We are really curious what strange searches are happening out there.

Visitors on our Morning Walk

Written on June 27, 2009 by D.K. Wall in Hiking, Qannik, S-RV, Squirrels, Wildlife

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Much hotter down here at Lake Hartwell State Park than it is at our house in Maggie Valley, so we are doing our hikes early in the morning and after sunset. Since we needed to get our walk done before the heat set in, we were very serious and focused.

Ok, fair enough, Rusty is never serious about anything except eating and sleeping, so he was playing Rusty games as we walked. But the rest of us were serious and focused.

But the point of our story is that our serious focus kept being broken by visitors on our walk. They weren’t quite as good of visitors as the Big Dogs in the Woods we see on some camping trips, but they were still very cool visitors. Take this little guy, for example. We became very serious and focused when we saw him, but not serious and focused about our walk:

We wooed out to him and asked him to wait for us so we could play some special games, but apparently he does not speak Siberian.

But this last visitor had us really perplexed. He seemed to have a task that he was concentrating on, because we could not get him to talk or play or anything.

Maybe he could not understand Siberian, so guess we need to practice our Dalmatian talk. Need to find some Dalmatian friends to translate for us. We are going to put black spots on Qannik for tonight’s walk and see if maybe that will get this guy to move.

The Revolt is Over

Written on June 16, 2009 by D.K. Wall in Squirrels, The Thundering Herd

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Thanks for all of your emails yesterday, but just wanted to be clear. No, The Herd did not revolt (they need us humans to deliver their food and scratch ears). The squirrels did not invade. The mountains did not collapse. And the mounds of shedding hair did not clog our computers. It was far more mundane than that.

Our website host crashed.

Starting at some point yesterday morning, our webhost had a series of power failures that ended up bringing down most – if not all – of their servers. The outage affected hundreds of websites, many of them commercial e-commerce sites. The webhost was very responsive and tried to keep us informed through the day and night, but it has taken hours to restore all of the functionality.

Late last night, the “static content” (fixed web pages or html) were restored. But the “dynamic content” (blogs and comments which are programmed in php) did not return until this morning. Unlike Blogger.com or WordPress.com, our blog literally resides on our website host servers. Fortunately, all of our data was perfectly safe and the entire website, including the history of the blog, is still there.

There are still a few issues, but the most noticeable will affect those of you who comment and suddenly discover you are back on a “to be approved” status. The way the site works, once I approve your comment, you can then continue to comment without specific approval (unless you fill out the comment identification form differently, such as a different email address). But that history appears to be lost (the comments are all still there, just the approvals lost). Hopefully that will get fixed as well, but if you get put into an approval queue, we will approve as quickly as possible and then things should be back to normal. At least, Siberian normal.

Pretty boring stuff, huh? Anyway, we are back and are hoping that the site will be back to 100% by tomorrow.

In the meantime, many of you missed yesterday’s post, so go back and enjoy it!

White Squirrels

Written on June 11, 2009 by D.K. Wall in Squirrels

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Our friend over at Mountain Musings posted yesterday about a new squirrel threat and I urge all of our furry squirrel hunters to pay very close attention to this. They are now discovering camouflage for winter conditions. Check this out:

This is particularly concerning to The Herd because these are pictured in Brevard, NC, which means they are practically our neighbors. Ok, maybe 50 miles and over a mountain range, but up here – that is a neighbor. But the back story for how white squirrels came to be in Brevard, NC, is far more fascinating. Please go check out the post – The Ugly Truth about Those Squirrels. And all of our DWB friends should check out the “Fridays are Golden” blog posts at Mountain Musings as well.

And since we enjoy introducing new blogs to you, let me mention a very new blog. Their very first post was done this week. Please stop by and welcome Phoenix to the blogging world.

Have a Happy Thursday!

Squirrels for Peace

Written on June 7, 2009 by D.K. Wall in Squirrels

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This is just wrong, but we saw it on a t-shirt in the Mast General Store (we don’t blame the store – they give us biscuits every time that we go in):

We are particularly impressed that they have a flying squirrel on the shirt, since the only squirrels we have are the “air force” type. Totally unfair, we must say.

Even scarier, we were googling for the picture from the manufacturer (www.earthsunmoon.com) , when our google also revealed this site – www.squirrelstore.com. Apparently, the purpose of the website is to order supplies for squirrels, not to order squirrels just for taste testing. How disappointing.

But despite this overture of Squirrels for Peace, we are sticking with the Operation Whack-A-Squirrel led by Tank – a perfect name for this effort.

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