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An Adventure in Mexico

On January 16, 2023 By nanasworldwebIn Foster and Panda9 Comments

Panda was looking at a picture of the Mexican flag on Mom’s laptop. “Dude,” he said, as if to nobody in particular. “It looks like this serpent got picked up by a giant eagle and brought to the top of some nopales! Just like what happened to me with the giant condor when we went …

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Life Hacks by Debra Kay

On December 5, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Uncategorized15 Comments

Would Be Influencer, Part 2 As an “up-and-coming” social media influencer, I thought it was time to share some “life hacks” with my faithful followers. And anyone else who has the (mis)fortune of stumbling across this blog unawares. First, we will talk about coffee. As you may be aware, kitchen “coffee stations”, or “coffee bars” …

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It’s Fall in the Back Yard

On November 28, 2022December 2, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn House and Yard6 Comments

Actually I guess it’s really winter, but hey. Sometimes you just have to go outside and take pictures of your yard, if only for the proverbial “blog material”. There are leaves everywhere. The last time the gardeners were here, I had forgotten to unlock my back gate, so they weren't able to get any of …

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Amazon Review #2

On November 3, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Foster and Panda15 Comments

We all know how much I like looking out the bedroom window. But little did I know that Mom had ordered a surprise for me from Amazon to make it that much easier to see outside! Hmm...what could this be? Whatever it was, I knew right away that it was for me. Oh yeah! I …

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The Day of Adversity

On October 28, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Family History5 Comments

"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." Proverbs 24:10 Above: Michigan death certificates for stillborn babies usually had a vertical line drawn down the middle. Below: This three-year-old Ludington girl died of typhoid fever in 1910. The family lived less than a mile from the Johnson home on East Melendy …

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That’s Just Creepy!

On October 17, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Uncategorized6 Comments

Who does this? If you were a kid in the 1960s, you surely knew about Creepy Crawlers. Either you had a "Thingmaker" set or you knew someone who did. Here is what the box looked like. That's my cousin picking out some Creepy Crawlers from my family's collection, for the nostalgia of it all. For …

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Checkup and Shots, Year 6

On October 1, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Foster and Panda8 Comments

So Mom's been saying she thinks I'm "overgrooming"... It seems she noticed I was losing fur on my front legs, and some on my back leg. She saw it back in April, but decided to keep an eye on it for awhile. It seemed she was always taking pictures of my front legs and texting …

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Foster and Panda in Print, Part 2

On September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Foster and Panda4 Comments

So when your mom is a librarian. . . You might remember from "Foster and Panda in Print" that our stories had made it to the Christian school library a couple of years ago. We were so excited to know that the students wanted to check them out. Mom had printed our stories from the …

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The Case of the Disappearing Chocolate: Solved!

On August 22, 2022August 22, 2022 By nanasworldwebIn Foster and Panda4 Comments

The chocolate was gone! We looked at each other in amazement. We had just awakened from a nap in the lobby of our hotel in Bariloche, after investigating the mysterious disappearance of chocolate from the shops in town. The shop owners had given us some free chocolate and we had left it on the table …

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The Case of the Disappearing Chocolate

On August 10, 2022January 21, 2023 By nanasworldwebIn Foster and Panda8 Comments

"Hey, Foster! Look at this!" Panda was watching Mom take out some ice to make iced coffee. "Look at this cool piece of ice! It has like an upside-down icicle on it!" I turned around to get a better look. "Panda," I said patiently. "First, ice is supposed to be cool. And second, there's no …

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