Peek a boo. I see you. Good morning friends and happy Friday.
And with that, let’s pose a question about work through a song from 1982; ♫♫♫ Should I stay or should i go ? ♫♫♫
Good News
Teddy the Porcupine and Zooniverstiy
Good morning friends.
Today we have a very special feature on The Good News Channel. this is “Teddy Bear” the Porcupine. About a week ago i posted on my Facebook wall, that If I were some type of animal, I probably would be a Porcupine. I made that reference because I always felt porcupines were very sweet and just wanted to be left alone. But if you pester them to much they will spring their quills at you. Point being is my friend Jennifer commented on my post and said I have to check out Teddy the Porcupine’s Youtube Channel and also Teddy’s Facebook Page.
Teddy belongs to http://www.zooniversity.org/ out of Dallas Texas. Zooniversity is a teaching zoo that you can visit or they come to you servicing Texas and Surrounding states. Zooniversity is a private company and was founded in 2001 by zookeeper and wildlife educator Allison Knox Blankenship (in picture above with Teddy).
As a mother of two “animal crazy” children, she saw the need in North Texas for a professional wildlife education service that was fun and educational, yet affordable. After speaking to Allison on the phone and hearing her passion and enthusiasm towards her animals that she cares for I can see why people from all over the world have come to visit Zooniversity in person.
This video is the property of Zooniversity and Allison Knox Blankenship. This is one of his main videos that when viral because he is literally talking while he’s munching on those mini pumpkins. To visit Teddy’s Youtube Channel, here’s link; https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=teddy+the+porcupine
Teddy is possibly the most well known porcupine on Earth. His videos on youtube have been viewed more then 17 million times and he has appeared on television many times. The world became fascinated with Teddy because he literally speaks, especially while he’s eating pumpkins like in the video above. Now I’m not saying he speaks English, but Teddy is definitely speaking and communicating in some sort of Porcupine language.
This is a Fennec Fox. Famous for their petite 3-pound frame, huge oversized ears, teensy nose and that luscious fur. Zooniversity makes a point how sweet they are but don’t even think about having them as a house pet.
Sammy & Family would like to mention to any of our friends in Texas or the surrounding states, Zooniveristy can come to you and give you a fun an educational experience of a lifetime. Sammy & Family is so impressed with their knowledge and care about wildlife and conservation. Although Teddy gets the most attention, Zooniversity cares for many different species of wildlife and educates kids and adults near and far. Click link to contact them; Zooniversity
Teddy the Porcupine’s Youtube Channel for much more videos.
Ok back to Teddy now. Teddy is a male and was born my 4th, 2003. Porcupines that are well taken care of like Teddy can live up to 25 years or more. At this point he cannot be released back into the wild as he would most likely not survive on his own. He has no fear of humans, dogs or other wildlife and would actually approach them.
Meet Teddy and 50 other species of Animals at; http://www.zooniversity.org/
Teddy has 35,000 barbed quills underneath all that soft, fluffy guard hair. The quills cover every part of his body, except his face, paws and belly. We don’t often get “quilled,” as we are not a threat to him and he doesn’t feel the need to ward us off. If he did feel threatened, Teddy would first flair his tail hair and show you his quills as a warning. If you didn’t heed his warning, he’d then spin like a top and whack you with his tail full of quills. And yes, that would be very painful if he did that to someone.
Teddy the Porcupine’s Youtube Channel for much more videos. Continue reading
Sammy is so Studious
“Did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?”
—- Jerry Maguire —-
One with the Sun
Good morning friends.
Today is a me day. Getting some R & R. It’s not everyday a 10 pound Pomeranian gets sit on the beach and take it all in. I do my best thinking and writing on the beach. I’m just about finished with my first E book, shhhh, don’t tell anyone.
I will check in with you tonight. I’m going to grab a pina colada right now, virgin one of course. Have a great day friends, nobody deserves it more.
Smiling Jeffrey
Good morning friends.
Happy Monday to everyone. We hope you all had a great weekend. Let’s give Jeffrey a big round of applause for his first morning post. I tell Vanessa every night how much i love this boy. He is so sweet and man is he smart.
I got to Puerto Rico 121 days ago and I can’t begin to tell you how far Jeffrey has come. It reminds me of a song Annie Lennox and Al Green sang in 1988 ; ♫♫♫ Put a little love in your heart And the world will be a better place ♫♫♫
Happy Monday friends.
Happy Birthday Jess and Happy Mother’s Day
Good morning friends. Let’s wish Jessica a happy 45th birthday. Today she has been alive for 16,425 days. Jess my birthday suggestion is to leave the 4 kids with mom and drink heavily today. Oh yeah, and tell mom I said Happy Mothers day this way i don’t have to get on the phone with her and immediately take 3 Excedrin after.
In all seriousness, Sammy & Family wishes all the mothers out there a wonderful Mother’s day. After all, without mother’s, there would be No Us.
Happy Sunday Funday friends.
Andrew Cotton; I love my family and I love to surf
Good morning friends.
We are very happy to feature Andrew Cotton on The Good News Channel today. You probably remember him from last year surfing one of the biggest waves in history in Nazare Portugal. Andrew is no ordinary 35 year old man. Most people hunker down at home when a storm is coming. But that’s when Andrew heads out and comes alive. You might think of him as some sort of storm chaser, but its different in the sense that when he finds a storm, he runs out into the ocean to surf waves the size of skyscrapers that many times come crashing down on him.
Probably the most publicized wave I’ve ever caught that day and it was giant. Biggest, scariest waves I’ve ever seen. We surfed for 4 hours, dodging peaks and trying to get in position and I only caught this wave.
What I liked most about Andrew after corresponding with him and reading up on him is his attitude. He is extremely positive. One quote of his really caught my attention in an interview he did with Mpora.com in April of 2014, he said; “Surfing doesn’t revolve around getting a good sponsor. It revolves around you as a person, it’s how you treat your surfing and your goals.” It’s that same attitude that helped him push through the doubters over the years.
After several knee injuries, people said its time to give up surfing. Andrew didn’t see it that way, it just meant he had to train even harder. Then when he had two kids, people would say to him; “It’s time to grow up and get a real job. But to Andrew this was a real job, the dedication and sacrifices he’s had to make to get where he is goes head to head with any so called “real job.”
It all starts with Team Cotton, Honey my daughter, Ace my son and Katie my wife. This was at Woolacombe in North Devon close to where I live on our 2 minute beach clean. Great little habit to get into and doing our little bit to keep the beach litter free. Check out; http://beachclean.net/
He started surfing when he was 7 yrs old growing up on the North Devon Coast of the UK. Ever since then, catching waves and being around the ocean was his life. At the age of 25 Andrew needed to start earning consistent money and trained to become a plumber.
Probably the best wave I ever caught in Ireland back in 2012. It got me to the final 5 of the WSL big wave awards which held in LA, unfortunately I lost out to Garrett McNamarra’s wave at Nazare in Portugal where I was the one who towed him into that wave.
After sometime he realized the 9 to 5 work life was going to keep him away from surfing for too long and maybe even for good. That was something Andrew was not willing to do. He was meant to be a surfer, a big wave surfer
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Why is Sunday called Sunday Funday ?
Friends, you can listen to audio right here or you can read the post right below the audio.
https://soundcloud.com/dr-harp-seal/my-recording-171
Good morning friends. Thank you for stopping by.
Today’s feature is why is Sunday called Sunday Funday ? I have given this a lot of thought over the years. I really love Sundays and I think understand why it’s such a fun day.
Mon through Friday its, work, work, work, Saturday’s we catch up on personal responsibilities, but Sunday’s are the mornings we love most, its the one morning we let imagination in the door and back into our lives.
On Sunday’s we get to be us again, the people we set out to be from the very beginning. Now is there a lot of freedom in that or what ?
Multivitamin – CDW
Good morning friends.
Sammy and Family brought you a Multivitamin this morning. C from Sammy’s smile, D from the sun, and W for the weekend; It’s new to the market; Vitamin – CDW. Its really powerful.
Happy Saturday.
Mathematical Breakthrough from Dr. Harp Seal
Good morning friends.
A fun one for today. As you know sometimes we apply mathematical equations to life scenarios. Well Dr. Harp Seal had an epiphany last night, an “Aha moment” if you will. Friends i have to politely ask you all to sit down before you read further. This is the kind of breakthrough that can cause people to pass out.
Take a few seconds to get seated.
Here’s the new mathematical breakthrough. The equation is this; You take your current age, and subtract the amount of years it took you figure out what life is about. So lets use me for example. I’m 45 years old. I figured things out around 40 years old.
So 45 yrs Minus 40 yrs = 5 years old. That’s my real age, I’m 5 years old. See you in Kindergarten Monday morning.
