Obituary

An Obituary is such a sad thing. It is not just the sadness that someone has died. I think it is sad how some one's life is summed up in just a sentence or two. The saddest ones, I think, don't even tell of the person's life but only of their death and funeral.

A dear friend of mine died this past week. I looked up his Obituary online and all it said was when and where he died and when and where his funeral will be held. Not a word about how he lived and loved.

This man struggled with Diabetes most of his life. He had even had to have a leg amputated because of complications with Diabetes. He lived within his means and shared with those around him what he felt was his excess. Most, seeing what he had, would say he had no excess. He was very sweet. He lived simply. He loved deeply. He suffered trials that most of us cannot even imagine. Even through his life struggles, he was cheerful and friendly. He truly knew how to count his blessings. I counted him among my many blessings and continue to be blessed by his friendship and love in spite of the fact that he has passed on into the next life.

Royce T. Grant, you are loved and missed. Thank you for everything you did for Steven, Lorenzo, and me. Thank you for being such a very good friend to us.
Love Always!
"Maynerd and Nurse Brown"

Sugar and Spice... In Action!

We have been handling our Sugar Gliders more. It is a long process but they seem to be getting more comfortable with us little by little. We love to watch them play. Here are a couple of videos we made of them playing in their Wodent Wheel. They are very quick when they want to be. Watching them can be dizzying. We hope you enjoy watching our Little Dare Devils as much as we do. The first Video is Spice playing in the Wheel by herself. The second Video is of Sugar and Spice playing together in the Wheel.

Name Change

As if adoption was not hard enough, we have decided to change the names of our Sugar Gliders. Squeaker is going to be Spice and Sugar Pie is going to be shortened to just Sugar. That way, we can call them Sugar and Spice. Please hold the Ooos and Ahhhs. We are already calling them by these names but have yet to go through all of the legal channels of changing their names. You know how it is... always red tape.

It's a Girl... What? Two of them?

Alright, here is the moment you have all been waiting for. Steven and I are the proud new parents of two female Sugar Gliders. The adoption process was not nearly as difficult as we had anticipated.
First, I would like to say thank you to my friends and family for being so supportive of our consideration of adoption.
Second, I would like to apologize for so horribly misleading you on my Facebook page. You have to admit, I got you interested though.
Anyhow, back to our Sugar Gliders. One is much more vocal than the other. The vocal one, we have named Squeaker and the quieter, calmer one is Sugar Pie.
Our dog, Lorenzo is quite interested in them. He stands by the cage for long periods of time, just licking his chops. :) We thought of posting his picture here but he has requested that we not post a picture of him standing by the cage licking his chops because he is afraid that it might be used against him if one of our Gliders should end up missing. (Which we are taking every precaution to prevent.)

We have heard that Sugar Gliders can be very high maintainence but so far, we are managing just fine with them. Sugar Pie, even let me pet her tummy this evening as she was hanging from the top of the cage. :) We'll keep you all posted.