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The Committee Is In Session
The Bird Committee is having a meeting under my kitchen window. Yesterday, I mowed the lawn, so today it’s “OMG! Someone scattered nommy bug-parts all over the place!” for the birds. They are being...
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A Less Welcome Guest
Normally, I don’t like bourgeois pursuits like weeding. I feel that plants should Do Their Thing and I mostly try to hold the line at keeping them from growing over the top of my house. I do have a...
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Did Someone Say Spiders?
[Trigger Warning: spiders] At least this posting has no Sam Harris content. Oh, wait, I just added some Sam Harris content! Should I add a trigger warning? Ni! This is the Happy Hunting Ground, at...
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Gimme Shelter
Before the dumpster service came to pick it up and take it away, we had several days of driving rain and fog. That sort of weather energizes me; I have no idea why. I don’t know what this little fellow...
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Wow, That’s a Turkey
I’m not sure why calling something a “turkey” is an expression of disdain. Turkeys are actually pretty impressive: smart, well-camouflaged (stealthy like an F-35!) weather-resistant, reliable. As I was...
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Migrants
When the mistral wind from North Africa blows up into the south of France, the summers are hot and dry and cloudless. I forget the year, but I was around 9 or 10; the rest of the situation was...
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Yard Friends
I walked out the front door and we both froze, looking at each other. After a moment, she walked calmly off at an angle, then paused. Traditionally, that means she was trying to lead me away from a...
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Not Your Friend!
It’s really an amazing adaptation, to have an anal sac that you can express at someone when they get annoying. Think what human civilization would be like if we had that ability. Being a politician...
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I went up over the ridge-line, past the sisters, and ran into this little fellow. He did not want to pose for the camera, and we walked together a little distance, with him getting madder and madder...
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Not Friend
I believe, as someone said about other dinosaurs, that this guy is “about as smart as a board with a nail hammered through it.” My first close encounter with one of these guys was in 1999 on I-70...
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