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I saw this pair of shorebirds at Seal Cove during retreat. I post them today because Wildlife*Biologist*Son is speaking today at my Library, about shorebirds! :-)
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I saw this pair of shorebirds at Seal Cove during retreat. I post them today because Wildlife*Biologist*Son is speaking today at my Library, about shorebirds! :-)
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Yay, Vermont!
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Notes left on the last thread. ♥
First frost!! And overdue.
ReplyDeleteBeen a long night, second time up, and back to bed.
Busy day! Winding down. Stock tank almost full. A month's worth of water!! But the new pump's a pita to get going. Sure pumps well, though.
ReplyDeleteAnd more windows second pained, and more cleanout under the house (good thing: he discovered a rotting floor beam), more cleanup all around, and dog walks (Beau's falling in lurv wit da boy).
Most satisfying weekend.
Hi guys.
ReplyDeleteHey, Cat! Been missing ya. . . . Just sayin'. . . .
ReplyDeleteGotta say the lettuce slushee was a great success. You can't just puree lettuce: it turns to slime. So two cups cold water, two cups of lettuce pieces, four pulses. Stain (push hard with spoon). Use water in crock pot broth. Save lettuce, and chill. One ripe tomato (best you can get), quartered in empty blender. Pulse three times. Take 1/2 cup lettuce slush, mix with mayonnaise. Top with tomato sauce. Salt and pepper. Wonderful!!!! A bit of sour cream doesn't hurt either. And this last batch, I added cut up spring onions. . . . (pulse four times, strain out water)
ReplyDeleteI'm filling out my absentee ballot. I really distrust "nonpartisan" elections. I googled all of them to see what I could learn. Two guys running for City Council. Turns out one of them is credited with being one of the founders of the Tea Party. And he's got yard signs up all over my neighborhood. Yuck, spit, ptooey. Well, he's not getting *my* vote.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing that amazes me (not) is the way R's manage to word things so they sound like they're a benefit when they're anything but. Buncha slime puppies.
Slime puppies just about covers it. Good on you, for checking it out. Easier now than it used to be, eh?
ReplyDeleteI love the internet. Used to be I'd have to hike it to the library and wade through book after book for info. I still love the library, but for recreation rather than research.
ReplyDeleteNow you can find out what politicians are *really* like. Not just listen to the snake oil they pour into people's ears at election time.
I'm sorta floating here. Son's talk was excellent...ten times better than even I imagined (and, hey, I'm his mother!), and I managed to say all I intended to (in order) when introducing him. Plus, we had 10 people register in advance for the talk, and 17 came (!), including one of Son's former professors who then asked him to come to UVM and give the same talk in a few weeks...! Awesome!!
ReplyDeletePlus, Daughter arrived in time to tend Littlest*Granddaughter (who slept through most of it) here at the house. We could not have asked for a better outcome!
Part of his talk was about Shorebirds, focused most on American Oystercatchers (since they are the bird he has most studied), followed by telling as much as he legally* could about his work heading up Shorebird Recovery in the Gulf of Mexico.
* I use the word "legally" literally. Their findings are locked until the lawsuit against BP ripens and comes to fruition. But it's in their contract that they do (after a fashion) get to reveal the statistics.
Add to all of this two adorable and adoring Granddaughters here for two days!! Eldest*Granddaughter would cuddle up for reading time, reach over and take my arm and put it around her...! Littlest*Granddaughter greeted me on the front porch when I returned from the Library exclaiming, "My Grammie here! My Grammie here!"
I thought many times this weekend: Life could not possibly be sweeter than this. ♥
How are you mending? ARE you mending?
ReplyDeleteAwaiting a new procedure soon, right?
=HUGS=
I think we're all falling in lurv wit da boy!!!
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ReplyDeleteAh, sweet indeed. Indeed. Or as we say here in West-by-God-Virginia: 'Deed and double.
ReplyDeleteHow many recipes in your new book so far?
ReplyDeleteGo Susan! I'm with you about the good of the nets for parsing these dudes out.
ReplyDeleteWhat if you wrote up a one-pager about how to find such information, and posted it up for folks to use?
My biggest concern is the folks who don't know enough to check these folks out,
exactly because of how the R's spin it.
Susan ~~ "Nonpartisan" can mean a number of different things. Oak Park's local elections are usually described as nonpartisan simply because it would be considered shocking/unacceptable for anyone to mention a affiliatioin with a national/state party. (Most are Democrats, of course, although there may be a few Greens and even Republicans.) But most years you have slates running against each other, and officially those slates are organized as parties. The difference is that the slates campaign on issues relevant locally, which have very little connection to national issues.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, Bill. It seems to me that even with a local election people ought to reveal their bent.
ReplyDeleteOh, they do, they do! A couple of electionis ago one slate was arguing for modernization of downtown (including tearing down an old office building) in order to encourage traditional retail development while another was urging a focus on tourism with preservation of the historic feel, including that building.
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