Welcome to FoxVox

A while ago we were contacted by Ellie Winslow, who had been following some of our weird tales of ‘backcountry living’, and she wanted to know if she could include some of our stories in a book she was compiling. Well, it sounded like a really fun opportunity, so we wrote up a few tales that involved cows, boar, etc. and she included it in her book, which is now available! Stories From Beyond The Sidewalk. The book has over 60 contributors – looks like it will be quite a cool read!

A number of weeks ago one of our turtles apparently climbed out of the pen/garden area. She was always kind of restless and a really good climber (she climbed out of John’s brother’s tank a few times too!)- it was a five foot high chicken wire fence! It was during one of those times where she got especially restless and probably had to lay eggs again. Well, we looked for her everywhere, but couldn’t find her, and knew her chances of surviving long out here weren’t good, as there’s practically no water anywhere. John had kept looking for her whenever he took the dogs for a walk too. Well, today he found her remains in the dry creek bed. John says he thinks the sandy soil near the edge looked disturbed, and that she might have layed another clutch of eggs there a while ago.

Well, ‘V’ (she had a ‘V’ shape on her turtle shell)… we hope you finally found some place that was better suited to your unique kind of turtleness!

I think I need a break from websites for a while – LOL – although I don’t know if that will really happen. See, using cafepress and the third-party scripts we have, and the ability to create subdomains, it’s ridiculously easy to create a new themed shop. The most recent one of them being Question T-shirts, which is just like it sounds – t-shirts with questions on them. They’re pretty normal questions, but they’re made weird in being put on a t-shirt. Or something like that. Basically, it was just an idea for a shop that seemed pretty easy to come up with designs for, so we went with it.

I’ve also been working on another site, but not a shop, more of a directory. I spent a while looking at free directory scripts around the web, but none were quite ‘it’. Then I got the idea to check on WordPress and see if it was adaptable to what we needed it to do, and it is! Actually, it’s a pretty robust program – I’m really impressed with it. It’s easy to install (even if you don’t have it set up with your domain host as a ‘one click install’ as we do) and it has a built in search and multiple categories, etc. It took me a little while to figure out how to customize the template/theme exactly how I wanted it, but it got a lot easier after I figured out how they were inserting info chunks using php. Anyway, that new site is in development right now, so I’ll keep the link to myself until it’s more ready for prime-time.

And that’s my excuse for not posting a lot here recently, among other busy-ness and happenings. Oh yes, and the heat. But I’m getting tired of hearing myself complain about the heat, so I’m not going to do that anymore.

Happy Birthday, Sara!

My friends went to Ireland and all I got was this gorgeous silver bracelet! I just love it and had to post a photo – all the lovely sparkly spirals, and it doesn’t turn rotate around my wrist much at all. Plus, it matches perfectly with the silver celtic knotwork and aquamarine ring (not pictured) I usually wear. I’ve been in sort of a jewelry no-man’s-land for way too long – perhaps this is the start of a new trend, I hope!