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Your Age On Other Worlds

Your Age On Other Worlds

This is a really neat, just for fun site I found. You type in your birthday and it gives you your age if you lived on all the other planets! For example Norm is 94 in Mercury and 0.13 years old in Neptune. It has all sort of info about the rotations of the planets and such. It also has links to see how much you weigh on the other planets… Hum… Check it out.

Debra

This is Dad (Skeeter) Snuggling with all four babi…

This is Dad (Skeeter) Snuggling with all four babies! What a good dad… taking care of them while they nap. If you look really close you can see a little baby sleeping under all the others with her face poking out next to Skeeter (almost in the center of the picture) ~Deb

UPDATE! The babies are doing qute well! The two T…

UPDATE! The babies are doing qute well! The two Twins now each have one eye open! It is so cute. They have ruby colored eyes like there dad! The other two have black eyes like mom! Today we put all four on Norm’s chest and all four of them were running around burrowing in his shirt! It was so hilarious! ~Deb

EXCITING DAY!

We have had such an exciting, unusual day today! This morning started off pretty slow. We woke up a bunch of times to the phone (since we didn’t get to sleep until about 5 am). Norm got up first and did some things… and I slowly got out of bed and read a bit from a John Grisham book I am reading. The day was quite dreary out… raining and starting to freeze… (very strange since last week was HOT) While I was getting ready to head out to Durham to go see my grandma and uncle, Norm took a peek at the gerbils. Norm said “Hi Espresso,” which we always do because she is very elusive. But he paused and said wait a minute!!! Espresso’s eyes are shut and she is SMALL! “DEBRA THEY HAD BABIES!!!!” Then of course I ran over and immediately started screaming with excitement! Then I saw a little baby that looked like Skeeter! WOW! We are so thrilled… We didn’t think they would ever have babies! We named the 2 light colored ones the Twins because they look like, nothing else but TWINS! The pitch black one is Sumatra because we wanted to name them coffee names since the mom’s name is Espresso. Sumatra is a very dark and bold coffee…same with our little baby gerbil “dark and bold.” Then we named the one like Espresso Verona, because it is a lighter coffee!

As the day went on we mournfully left the gerbils to head to Durham! It had already been a crazy day… but as we drove further north the rain turned into a full on snow storm! My goodness! What a weird day!

Don’t worry we will continue to post more pics of the babies and update you as they grow!
Bye for now
Debra

We are pleased to announce the birth of Sumatra, Verona & the Twins!

Today we were amazed to discover that our gerbils, Skeeter & Espresso had indeed had children! We had lost hope, but apparently these babies were born about 2 to 3 weeks ago without our knowledge! We keep them in a huge 80gallon tank and there’s plenty of space for them to hide. Usually at about 3 weeks babies start to venture out and explore, which is probably why we just found them now! We quickly did a count and found four babies. One looks like its mother, two a mix, and one is straight black. Here are picture of the whole family!

Skeeter (dad) ^

Espresso (mom) ^

Verona ^

The twins (a & b) ^

Sumatra ^

We are able to give them to petstores, but we would love to give them to friends before a petshop. If you are interested in having a brand new baby gerbil, let us know! They are extremely easy to care for and we will give you all the info on what is needed. We both had hamsters in the past, and decided that we never wanted them again, but gerbils are actually nothing like hamsters. More social, no smell, less maintenance, and way cuter!

So, if you are interested, or at the very least would like more info, email us or phone us!

More pictures coming!

~Norm & Deb

Only a decade and a half late, but thats ok

Only a decade and a half late, but thats ok

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

A big happy birthday to our dad, Kenneth Lee Copeland. He reminded us a month ago about his birthday and says that he is accepting gifts up til next friday.

Dad, thanks for being such an awesome dad to both Deb and I. Thanks also for always making sure that Debra knows she’s part of the family (it all started with the fish feast ;o) Hope that you have an awesome birthday!

Send him a birthday note at sheilacopeland@hotmail.com or leave a birthday comment!

click here to guess his age!

~Norm

Breakfast of Champions & The Mail Route

It was strangely cold this morning when I finished work. Around 6:30 I left work and was shocked to see my car covered in frost. Those few days of 25 degree weather pretty much wiped my memory clean of the days of snow and frost. I also had to go searching in the trunk for an ice scraper. At work, they have this thing called ‘The Breakfast of Champions’. They pick people from every line and they get to go out for breakfast with the management. It was alright, free food, and also interesting to hear the perspective of people I don’t work closely with. I was feeling a little intimidated by the shift supervisor on my left and the rest of the guys around me having anywhere from 15 – 18 years seniority. But it was fun to put my opinions forward and to hear others. I got home just in time to help Debra get ready for the mail run. Hopefully she won’t get sick again after this run, she’s been trying to sleep during the night. Although last night she had trouble getting to sleep. This weekend we hope to get up to Durham to drop some stuff off at Debra’s grandma’s place, it’ll be nice to see her and to see how she’s settling in to life in Canada. Anyways, I’m off to shut the doors, close the blinds and head off to a nice day’s sleep.
~Norm

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~Norm

Extra Work

This guy on my line at work also manages a pool company during the day. Sunday night while we were working he offered me some hours during the day building pools. Sleep holds an important place in my heart, but I decided to work anyways and make a bit of extra cash. So after work at 6 I ran home, changed, got some breakfast and headed off to some more work. It was actually a bit of fun working on the pool, interesting to see how it all goes together, there’s a lot of precision that goes into it. I worked till 12:00 then went home to blissful sleep. I also had been severely missing Debra, so I was very happy to be home! Tonight at work he asked me if I wanted to work again today, but I said no for today. Working and providing for your family is important, but I also know that quality time with your family is also very important.
~Norm