Monday, August 17, 2026

The First Red

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Wee Wolf happy with a Black Gum leaf . Black Gums are the first leaves to turn bright red in late summer.

Fogerty & Seeger :: Who Will Stop the Rain?

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Sunday, August 16, 2026

Graham Nash & David Crosby :: Lee Shore

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Saturday, August 15, 2026

Stinky Squid

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A “Stinky Squid” (Pseudocolus fusiformis) stinkhorn mushroom near where I was stacking firewood this morning.

Thylacine?

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I think someone  over - paid . I suspect this is a South American Bush Dog with glass eyes pulled from a taxidermy bits box (they don’t make...

Most Women Are Better Than Most Men

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Stacking Yesterday’s Oak and Pine Sections

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The bar is two meters tall.

The Fish and I :: Babak Habibifar

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A blind man living in isolation with his only companion -- a small goldfish in a bowl.  Written, shot, and acted by Iranian Babak Habibif...
Friday, August 14, 2026

The Chambers Brothers :: Time Has Come Today

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Thursday, August 13, 2026

What They Don’t Talk About in Sunday School

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“Sunday School” by Eira Quinn They told me about Noah But not the bodies. Not the screaming  beneath rising water, or the mothers  who begge...

Concern-trolling at the Small Engine Shop

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I take down and section enough trees that I have an opinion on chainsaw blades, and that opinion is that you definitely do NOT get what you...

Practicing “Place”

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Practicing “place” on rocks and downed trees.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Franken-Fido

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Frankenstein is a story of unintended consequences. Dr. Frankenstein was not a bad man . He was simply trying to push death beyond the horiz...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Blue Heron on Yesterday’s Bike Ride

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Monday, August 10, 2026

Recapitulating Scotland’s Mistake

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  The older I get, the more I see patterns , and so often those patterns are repeated mistakes. It’s often racism, war-mongering , and capit...

52 Years Ago Today

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Sunday, August 09, 2026

Found a Third Box Turtle in the Yard

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This one was floating in a tiny 50-gallon deer watering “pond” next to where I set out corn for deer.  This Box Turtle was fine (they can f...
Saturday, August 08, 2026

Now We Re-Elect the Crooks

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Woodward and Bernstein watching Nixon’s resignation announcement, 52 years ago this evening. Where were you? I was in a camp ground, bicy...
Friday, August 07, 2026

A Very Handsome Grandson

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Eastern Cicada Killer Wasp

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Eastern Cicada Killer Wasps are giant wasps that paralyze cicadas and then pick them up and fly them to burrows.  The cicadas are still ali...

Drone, Drone on the Range

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  Back in 2012 , I wondered: “How hard would it be to put a small gun on a drone and fly it into forest or field... or through a window ...

Go Ahead and Look Up (But it won’t matter)

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Splitting Two Coreopsis

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My goal was to get six new plants out of two big Coreopsis.  I got 23 new plants out of them.  They got planted out yesterday, along with 2...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

The Struggle Was Real

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Eastern Jack-o'lantern mushrooms  (Omphalotus illudens) are growing on an oak tree stump in the yard.
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

The Yard Work List Grows

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TOMORROW’s AGENDA is to plant 25 more Black-eyed Susans, and split and plant two large Coreopsis four-ways, as well as three Catmints two-w...

There Will Come Soft Rains

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Apocalypse stories are about the end of man , which is often described as a beneficence to nature. Ray Bradbury’s story, “There Will Come So...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Is the AKC Running Out of Gas?

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Ted Phillips, the Chief Financial Officer of the American Kennel Club, delivered the June 9, 2026  First Quarter Financial Report, which sh...
Monday, August 03, 2026

Larry Adler and Yitzhak Pearlman :: Summertime

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Sunday, August 02, 2026

Incentivized Doom Notices

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The Medicare Board of Trustees has a long track record of being wrong. In 1995 , Medicare Trustees said Medicare would be broke by 2002. In...
Saturday, August 01, 2026

A Good News Story

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The US has the same beaver recovery trajectory over the same period. The lesson: If we take our boot off Mother Nature’s neck, she’ll g...

Who’s Your Daddy?

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I have a suspicion…..

The Cursed

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To be incurious and willfully ignorant is to be cursed.  It is to be blind in a field of flowers , to be thirsty surrounded by water, and to...
Friday, July 31, 2026

More Daylilies Going In

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  Seventy-two mixed daylilies from Gilbert H. Wild and Sons in Missouri.  I have ordered hostas and daylilies from them in the past, and th...

The Sum Total of All Knowledge

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I simply do not understand the incurious.  The sum total of all knowledge is in your pocket, and it’s free, and you still have no questions...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

The Gospel According to Trump

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A lady I know told me she was re-reading and studying the Bible. I laughed .    “You don’t believe the Bible,” I said. She puffed herself u...