by Mike Strobel | Mar 11, 2022 | Tulip's Adventures
Tulip has spent weeks in the Big Smoke, helping me with my Christmas Fund for Variety Village and luxuriating in the holiday season. Our intrepid Norwegian forest cat has always had a special relationship with the Christmas tree. For instance, she was a prime suspect...
by Mike Strobel | Dec 6, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Our Norwegian forest cat is stuck in the Big Smoke helping me with my Christmas Fund for Variety Village and trying not to get bored before we return to the wilds of Manitoulin Island. Here, she plays a favourite game, Spot Tulip. Can you find her? Clue: Don’t...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Animals around the cabin are getting ready for winter in their own ways. As reported earlier, Pee Wee, our snowshoe hare, is turning white. The snakes are in brumation, a lethargic state similar to hibernation. Squirrels have cached seeds everywhere. Geese and...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Remember Pee Wee? In late spring, he emerged from under our bunkie, a baby snowshoe hare with absolutely no fear of us. He ate all our weeds, then started to roam and we saw him only occasionally this summer and not for the past month. But last night, he dropped by to...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 16, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Our forest is on edge because for several days there’s been no trace of wild turkeys Thelma and Louise. Did they hop in a convertible and drive off a cliff? Were they prey for some myopic deer hunter? Or are they simply on a shopping trip to Buffalo now that the...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Word swept through our forest like wildfire after my friend Alan Parker broke the news. All About Cats, the Cadillac of cat sites, rated 46 breeds by beauty (https://tinyurl.com/292p2f4t) and guess who won? The Norwegian Forest cat. As in Tulip. The squirrels’...
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