tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317623362024-03-07T00:12:42.841-08:00Paws de Deuxwarburtohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02013722159316100492noreply@blogger.comBlogger428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-26666731586635514152015-02-24T23:07:00.000-08:002015-02-28T12:01:03.632-08:00Resting In PeaceIt falls upon me to make the following sad announcement:
Anne ("Lil' Bill") Warburton has passed on peacefully, one week short of her 92nd birthday. She was in the company of her immediate family in Santa Barbara.
Vigilantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-66067187253631808482011-02-20T14:04:00.000-08:002015-02-28T12:02:19.284-08:00PrioritiesOverpopulation and Further Thinking
THIS is the most important problem on the earth, no quibbling, and if humans don’t solve it for themselves, Nature will solve it for us.
The most important weapons directed at the human race are uncontrolled growth of population and laws against the right to die. These are two rights of great importance, rights which should belong only to the person involvedLittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-54874420847840287352011-02-06T14:58:00.000-08:002011-02-06T14:59:16.776-08:00YOU WON’T BELIEVE THIS!! A HORROR TALE OF IN-HOME CARE(Looking back, it almost seems like a Laurel and Hardy comedy for those old enough to remember, except that, at the time, it wasn’t funny.)A new caregiver was sent to me one morning as a substitute. I was still in bed, and Jackie, my ex-caregiver who has lived here ever since her professional time here, brought her to the door of my room to LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-88103286867283156842011-02-05T12:59:00.000-08:002011-02-05T13:00:24.039-08:00THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLD AT THE START OF 2011Don’t know whether I have mentioned this before, but I find I do my best thinking just BEFORE I wake up in the morning. From there on, it’s a matter of time and circumstance as to how long I can remember, and how soon I can get my thoughts down.What I am most concerned about right now is the economic journey this country is making. I looked “LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-32562288016132156482010-12-12T14:16:00.000-08:002010-12-12T14:19:33.348-08:00THOUGHTS KEEP RUNNING THROUGH MY HEADThere are still many of us around who remember the “olden days”, when few thought much about how many children a family should have. For one thing, it has only been a little over a century since Man abandoned the Ages of manual and animal labor, and dove headlong into the debauchery of living lives made easy by technology.The worst part is that this age of LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-82367077896117089352010-12-12T14:15:00.000-08:002010-12-12T14:16:02.127-08:00LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-82275188571432513322010-12-05T15:05:00.000-08:002010-12-05T15:19:21.706-08:00More Creatures to RescueTHE PET PERIODICAL – More Creatures to Save How I could have written on how to save a fly and then neglected other insects far more in need of help is beyond me. I hope this will make up for my mistake.There are many insects which can ONLY crawl—no flying. And the death trap most eager to welcome them is the bathtub. Once a crawling insect enters the tub, it is trapped, for it cannnot LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-62427699938371861432010-12-04T15:31:00.000-08:002010-12-04T15:35:32.385-08:00THE PET PERIODICALTHE PET PERIODICAL – How to Rescue a FlySitting here in my “office” day after day, one would think that I do not have much to write about. From my point of view, however, there is a great deal. My only problem right now lies in actually getting it done. But now, at last, it is very important to me to write on this subject, as I realize how very much I am slowing down.One day, as I turned away LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-65965431927886878382010-11-27T12:19:00.000-08:002010-11-27T12:23:38.504-08:00THE RECENT ELECTIONDon’t know about the rest of you, but the events of the past month have really sapped my spirit and my body of a great deal of their remaining strength.Many of you—like me—must have noticed that Messrs. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell never smiled during the run-up to the election. On the other hand, President Obama’s smile is full of warmth and sincerity—as it was even when LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-13031073141798972392010-10-25T11:59:00.000-07:002010-10-25T12:02:14.552-07:00Perhaps I am missing something, or just don't understand. Sarah Palen has a pretty face and looks cute in high heels. Are those the qualifications everyone should be looking for in politics? I obviously need your help.ARW10/25/10LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-20186821248735112492010-10-07T16:50:00.001-07:002010-10-07T16:50:45.364-07:00An ApologyTHE PET PERIODICAL – A ClarificationDon’t Know Why (tum ta tum tum--tum tum tum--), I’ve been signing off as ARW on my Pet Periodical—of all things! From Now On (another song comes to mind, but not the cadence), I will try to remember to sign myself as MErcury, to include my dear, sweet little black cat, Mercury (the one minus the white spot on her chest.)Please humiliate me by correcting me, LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-46749381328034360342010-10-02T14:22:00.002-07:002010-10-05T13:24:50.029-07:00THE PET PERIODICAL The Should ‘a’ Been Original IntroductionThe most important thing for my readers to know is that I do not intend to write about animal cruelty (of which there are endless amounts.) That said, I intend to write about animal wonderfulness, and hope to share it with and/or to inspire you from firsthand knowledge.For each of us, what we become is seldom what we started out to be,LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-76617875024287247312010-09-30T13:27:00.001-07:002010-09-30T13:27:53.637-07:00A BIT MORE AUTOBIOGRAPHYTo fill in those people who may not know, I post what I write on both of my outlets, annewarb@gmail.com, as well as and Paws de Deux , my blog. Except under rare circumstances which don’t presently occur to me, my message is the same. That said, I will relate some more biographical background, to kind of fill you in as to why I have become the rather strange person I am—LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-35929569601029213392010-09-29T12:36:00.000-07:002010-09-29T12:37:01.141-07:00THE PET PERIODICAL – The Rescue of the RatOne day, I strolled from our house on the ranch down to barn, taking our four dogs with me, tails wagging, and noses sniffing the ground for scent.As we drew near the barn, the dogs suddenly darted forward. I rushed after them to see what was going on, and found them sniffing at a long pole lying alongside the barn. It looked like a telephone pole—whichLittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-55039117259016745912010-09-29T12:34:00.001-07:002010-09-29T12:34:22.182-07:00First, Some Family BackgroundAlthough we and our siblings are often recognizable as having come from the same family, we are just as often totally different, both in views and lifestyles. And so it has been with my family.Also, keep in mind that we are products of our century, our time, and our history.My father, Poppy, came from a middle class family in Buffalo, New York. He did not go beyond LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-64869086328018443422010-09-28T11:36:00.000-07:002010-09-28T11:38:25.274-07:00The RanchTHE PET PERIODICAL – BackgroundMy family moved from Cleveland, Ohio, to a lovely ranch in northeastern Wyoming in the early 1930’s. Our home was built under an enormous cottonwood tree—about a mile from the front gate. From the long veranda along the front of the house and facing west, we had a panoramic view of the Big Horn Mountains. And from the back of the house facing east, we had a LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-71030284473804256062010-09-27T15:35:00.000-07:002010-09-27T16:02:02.792-07:00THE LORD’S PRAYER THROUGH ATHEIST EYESHaving gone from a three-year stint in an Episcopal boarding school to full-blown atheism in my declining years--thinking about values (aka Real Thinking) as compared to religious belief (aka Being Told What to Think), I decided to look up The Lord’s Prayer last night. And sure enough, it was all about ME! I tried to copy one of the many versions, but LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-76161916900720570252010-09-27T11:20:00.000-07:002010-09-27T11:22:08.986-07:00THE PET PERIODICALTHE PET PERIODICAL – Two Smart AlecsWhen we first moved to Wyoming, we rented a small ranch in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. And there we kept our black and white Shetland pony, Skunk, and our two horses at the time, Tex and Red.One day, we came home to find the three of them in the corral, as usual, but with what seemed like an unusual restlessness among them. Skunk appeared to be LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-62331025085857820912010-09-26T13:03:00.000-07:002010-09-26T13:04:15.258-07:00THE PET PERIODICAL PRELUDE(Two issues too late)In this new periodical, I have decided to include stories of ALL living creatures, not just pets. Almost all of them will be true stories from my own life, while some of them will be musings on the state of things. Many will be happy, many will be sad or even horrifying, some will be stories which I have written before, but from a different point LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-71812530795271405052010-09-25T10:17:00.000-07:002010-09-25T10:19:37.458-07:00Just a ThoughtTHE START OF THE END OF IT ALLIt suddenly occurred to me last night that the middle of the 20th Century was very possibly the Beginning of the End of Everything.Many of us were born before World War II. A few of us were born at the beginning of the 20th Century, just as some of us were born at the beginning of the 21st Century. And there may even be 2 or 3 people still here who were born at theLittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-74925135633531462692010-09-25T09:58:00.000-07:002010-09-25T10:01:26.112-07:00Just a ThoughtIt suddenly occurred to me last night that the middle of the 20th Century was very possibly the Beginning of the End of Everything.Many of us were born before World War II. A few of us were born at the beginning of the 20th Century, just as some of us were born at the beginning of the 21st Century. And there may even be 2 or 3 people still here who were born at the end of the 19th Century. ButLittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-77667606648086364282010-09-23T16:17:00.000-07:002010-09-23T16:19:06.415-07:00THE PET PERIODICALTHE PET PERIODICALThe Tail of the TunnelBefore I moved to Santa Barbara, I lived in Oakland, California. I was a librarian, and I worked over the hills in Contra Costa County. To get there from my home, I took a major highway that went through the hills via a three-part tunnel.The righthand tunnel always went TOWARD Contra Costa County, the lefthand tunnel always went TOWARD San Francisco, and LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-87821424460754631812010-09-21T17:06:00.001-07:002010-09-21T17:09:48.072-07:00THE PET PERIODICALTHE PET PERIODICALHow to Rescue a Dog on the FreewayYou can’t be a freeway user and not have seen at least one dog in your life trotting along the freeway—almost always going in the same way as traffic. For starters, your first reaction should be to realize that rescuing the dog is YOUR responsibility. So go about thinking how to do it.First, DO NOT attempt to pull over right away. You may LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-91894467134409263662010-09-18T10:58:00.000-07:002010-09-18T11:02:46.616-07:00New SubjectsNew Subjects to Come UpYesterday, on our way home from an appoiontment, my caretaker, Rocio, took the freeway, which I hate. The reason I hate the freeway is the fear of seeing a dead, injured, or terrified dog and not being able to do anything about it.But there ARE things you can do, and when I was able to drive and could make decisions about things like that myself, I did them myself—as LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31762336.post-37795951516203002422010-09-05T14:53:00.000-07:002010-09-05T14:56:12.013-07:00MESSAGE TO SOUL SAVERSMESSAGE TO SOUL SAVERSOn behalf of all non-believers, of which I am one, I beg you to stop going door-to-door attempting to save our souls. Speaking for myself at least, I find this very intrusive and somewhat insulting. I would never consider going to your homes in an attempt to dissuade you of your beliefs. I can assure you that many of those who do not believe in God or practice other LittleBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06541980367488311536noreply@blogger.com3