Good morning! Miss Bosley sends her greetings and requests for FOOD from anyone willing to supply. She will sing her song for you, “Meow, I’m Hungry!” She has perfected it over the years.
Kevin from 8?12: Peter, I think you said the other day you were getting training on a new tour. Same place, different kind of tour, or some new place you’re touring?
The cave owners also have a historic trolley tour of Hannibal and they needed another driver/guide.
We so enjoyed our visit in Hannibal many years ago. We visited the cave and explored main street ourselves. We also toured a mansion that had been moved from its original location, I believe. That would have been way back in 1972. Yes, I am old. Just ask my grandchildren. 🙂
We also did the cave tour back in 2006, and also a river dinner cruise, and generally enjoyed looking around Hannibal.
We’re heading to St Louis for a wedding Saturday and I’d hoped we might swing through Hannibal on the way there and back. Alas, we can’t leave Michigan until Friday morning and have to get back Sunday, so no side trips or visiting this time. But someday I want to get a cave tour from Peter.
We have acquired quite a few of those “rubber-tire” trollies in our town to help get folks around during the bigger events such as Fleet Week or when other unique ships are visiting and open for tours.
How I would have loved seeing Hannibal as a kid, we constantly were driving to and from Iowa but somehow my parents must have kept it from me about how close we would have been to Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn/Becky land.
And MO is still one of the states I’ve never been to.
I have never been in that part of the USA. I have seen the southern east coast up to DC, the CA west coast and the states from GA to TX, been to Montana and Wyoming, the airport at Salt Lake, so a pretty splotchy view. It would be nice to fill in the blanks. Each state has such beauty.
Boy was just mowing the front yard, and found some baby bunnies in a nest. They look like they are very young, maybe recently born. He thought we should take them to our neighbor, who has rehabbed hurt or abandoned animals in the past, but I told him to leave them because the mother may be off getting food for them.
I have read about some animals, like deer and foxes (I think), that will leave their babies in what they think is a safe place, and come back later. Sometimes people find them and think they are abandoned, and take them to a vet or wildlife rehab place, when they didn’t need to do that.
Boy called his other grandmother to ask what to do, especially since one of the three has wandered off to a spot away from the nest. She has experience with rabbits, so she is coming over to assess the situation.
Kizzie, wild rabbits don’t come to the nest very often, so as not to bring predators. They may nurse the babies as little as once per day, and the mother doesn’t even enter the nest (from what I understand, and what I seemed to see when I had a nest in my own backyard); she comes in over the nest and the babies lean their heads out to nurse. They do leave the nest when they are nowhere near adult size (maybe a third or a fourth of their mother’s size), but at that point, as far as I know, they are totally on their own.
Also, it’s impossible to raise wild rabbits unless you have an adult rabbit of your own. Rabbits have two kinds of droppings, one that is simply excrement and one that contains enzymes or bacteria or something that has gone through the rabbit’s gut, which the rabbit eats to keep his gut healthy. Baby rabbits have to eat some of that themselves, before they eat solid food, or they will die. Apparently quite a few would-be rescuers have learned that the hard way: the babies do great while they are getting only milk, but soon after they transition to solid food, they die of diarrhea.
Other Grandmother picked up the runaway, put him or her back in the nest, and covered it up with the covering that had come off. She read that mama bunnies come to the nests to nurse around dawn and dusk, so the bunnies will probably be okay. (We had seen the mother another time, but didn’t realize that she had babies.)
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Good morning! Miss Bosley sends her greetings and requests for FOOD from anyone willing to supply. She will sing her song for you, “Meow, I’m Hungry!” She has perfected it over the years.
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Are cats ever not hungry?
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Kevin from 8?12: Peter, I think you said the other day you were getting training on a new tour. Same place, different kind of tour, or some new place you’re touring?
The cave owners also have a historic trolley tour of Hannibal and they needed another driver/guide.
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That sounds like fun, Peter! “All aboard!”
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We so enjoyed our visit in Hannibal many years ago. We visited the cave and explored main street ourselves. We also toured a mansion that had been moved from its original location, I believe. That would have been way back in 1972. Yes, I am old. Just ask my grandchildren. 🙂
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Good morning, all. We are off to St Gertrude’s this morning , to explore the museum again.
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We also did the cave tour back in 2006, and also a river dinner cruise, and generally enjoyed looking around Hannibal.
We’re heading to St Louis for a wedding Saturday and I’d hoped we might swing through Hannibal on the way there and back. Alas, we can’t leave Michigan until Friday morning and have to get back Sunday, so no side trips or visiting this time. But someday I want to get a cave tour from Peter.
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Oh, a trolly driver now, Peter?
We have acquired quite a few of those “rubber-tire” trollies in our town to help get folks around during the bigger events such as Fleet Week or when other unique ships are visiting and open for tours.
How I would have loved seeing Hannibal as a kid, we constantly were driving to and from Iowa but somehow my parents must have kept it from me about how close we would have been to Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn/Becky land.
And MO is still one of the states I’ve never been to.
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I have never been in that part of the USA. I have seen the southern east coast up to DC, the CA west coast and the states from GA to TX, been to Montana and Wyoming, the airport at Salt Lake, so a pretty splotchy view. It would be nice to fill in the blanks. Each state has such beauty.
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I left the ‘e’ out of trolley.
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Boy was just mowing the front yard, and found some baby bunnies in a nest. They look like they are very young, maybe recently born. He thought we should take them to our neighbor, who has rehabbed hurt or abandoned animals in the past, but I told him to leave them because the mother may be off getting food for them.
I have read about some animals, like deer and foxes (I think), that will leave their babies in what they think is a safe place, and come back later. Sometimes people find them and think they are abandoned, and take them to a vet or wildlife rehab place, when they didn’t need to do that.
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Boy called his other grandmother to ask what to do, especially since one of the three has wandered off to a spot away from the nest. She has experience with rabbits, so she is coming over to assess the situation.
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Kizzie, wild rabbits don’t come to the nest very often, so as not to bring predators. They may nurse the babies as little as once per day, and the mother doesn’t even enter the nest (from what I understand, and what I seemed to see when I had a nest in my own backyard); she comes in over the nest and the babies lean their heads out to nurse. They do leave the nest when they are nowhere near adult size (maybe a third or a fourth of their mother’s size), but at that point, as far as I know, they are totally on their own.
Also, it’s impossible to raise wild rabbits unless you have an adult rabbit of your own. Rabbits have two kinds of droppings, one that is simply excrement and one that contains enzymes or bacteria or something that has gone through the rabbit’s gut, which the rabbit eats to keep his gut healthy. Baby rabbits have to eat some of that themselves, before they eat solid food, or they will die. Apparently quite a few would-be rescuers have learned that the hard way: the babies do great while they are getting only milk, but soon after they transition to solid food, they die of diarrhea.
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Thanks, Cheryl.
Other Grandmother picked up the runaway, put him or her back in the nest, and covered it up with the covering that had come off. She read that mama bunnies come to the nests to nurse around dawn and dusk, so the bunnies will probably be okay. (We had seen the mother another time, but didn’t realize that she had babies.)
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