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Michelle
Florida
I am a retired high school teacher and am happily married. I have an absolutely beautiful daughter named Marissa.
Interests: Vegetarianism, shopping, my pets, reading, photography, painting, sports, computers, traveling, decorating, and the beach!, Helping animals in any way I can.
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Please share with anyone who works with cats or could use this information. After initially hearing that just a few treatments are ~ $1500, I called about half the vets in FL including the University of Florida and no one... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide Buenos Aies, Argentina is a city that I can not wait to visit again! This is where I disembarked from my South... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
Michelle is now following WM3
Feb 10, 2013
Michelle is now following Sidney Snoeck
Feb 10, 2013
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May... Continue reading
Posted Feb 10, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
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Valparaiso: This is where I boarded my cruise. I had stayed in Santiago the night before. I wish I'd stayed here. This city seemed to have so much more character. Puerto Montt (a little farther south): Castro: Even further south...working... Continue reading
Posted Feb 8, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
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I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. The above is just proof of me in Antarctica. Now onto the penguin photos! The above photo is of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
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Only problem...we didn't see any deer. Lots of incredible scenery though! Thanks so much for stopping by! I know I'm not doing well with descriptions so please feel free to ask any questions. I'm stuggling to get back into blogging.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
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Love this!!! Brujo Glacier Patagonia Shipwreck in Chilean waters Penguin family in their burough BABY penguin Glacier Alley Seal just hanging out (taken from far away unfortunately) Only sunset I saw in Antarctica due to LOTS of fog and this... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2013 at Michelle's Menagerie
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I learned from my friend Sparkle on Facebook: http://www.sparklecat.com/ about National Feral Cat Day. While in Kauai last month, there were many feral cats outside my time share: I was very proud of the above photo of a cat and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." Albert Schweitzer I... Continue reading
Posted Sep 6, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." Mary Anne Radmacher... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot." Eleanor Roosevelt That's me jumping off the third floor deck into... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." George Washington Carver I will never forget the turquise blue water and flying into Phuket:... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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Practicing Yoga on Phi Phi island with a beautiful 15 year old girl I met from Singapore - what a good sport to work with someone old enough to be her mother ;) This is where Leonardo DiCaprio filmed "The Beach" in 1995: And a not very impressive Pigeon pose,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 18, 2012 at Serenity Garden Yoga
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"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." John Burroughs Me on James Bond Island: Practicing Yoga on Phi Phi island with a beautiful 15 year old girl I met from... Continue reading
Posted Aug 18, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." Kurt Vonnegut I am currently in Phuket Thailand.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 20, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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While on a rescue mission last week to our local Animal Control Services, aka "The Pound", a euthanizing facility, I met Peggy. Peggy is a very young cat that was found in the middle of a road. She had broken... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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Coco passed away two years ago on March 19th. On that day one of my top three wishes was granted. I had been hoping and praying that a wonderful cat named Kendall with FIV at our shelter would get adopted... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2012 at Michelle's Menagerie
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If none of these pictures make you smile, you are grumpy and need to go back to bed ;) Mom, Dad, Uncle Jim~~~Please don't move yet... He's not my brother~~~He's just HEAVY! I promise, I won't do it again momma!!!... Continue reading
Posted Nov 27, 2011 at Michelle's Menagerie
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The above photos are of Little Peanut who is now around 2 months old. We feel very fortunate that one of the SPCA's wonderful vets has adopted him! They fell in love with him and that is such a great... Continue reading
Posted Nov 13, 2011 at Michelle's Menagerie
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The top photo is of "Oliver". I have been bottle feeding him for the last seven days. He only weighed 12 ounces when we got him last Sunday and today he weighed in at whopping 1 pound and 2 ounces!... Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2011 at Michelle's Menagerie
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http://youtu.be/SNonQIFiuhs I'm sure any of us who have spent any time in an animal shelter are amazed at how wonderful the facility in this beautiful music video is. This shelter is in Wake County, North Carolina which probably has much... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2011 at Michelle's Menagerie