Hooded Merganser Mom
photo by Matt Duffy in Vermont. Shared with permission.
This is a Hooded Merganser mom tending her two ducklings
plus two adopted Wood Duck ducklings!
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To bed early, up early, doc visit at one. Wish me luck.
ReplyDeleteGood luck wished.
DeleteCute ducks, BTW!
ReplyDeleteThose sucks over-winter on the pond across from our house. There's usually a flock of a dozen or more. The water is brackish (tidal) and perhaps not conducive for reproducing. Their coming and going signals the coming of fall and spring.
DeleteWell, house picked up, trash out, me washed, hair shampooed, fresh robe. Good to go. Bring on the docs.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to hearing good news.
DeleteWell, lungs sound good and I've lost ten more pounds. The rest will be bloodwork.
ReplyDeleteThe Biden administration, with little public fanfare, is working on plans for an organized review of thousands of cases of people who say they were unjustly deported in recent years [Click]
ReplyDeleteBig Ag Firm Sold Land to Sonny Purdue at Big Discount [Click]
Manchin says he's on board with Democratic-only infrastructure bill [Click]
GOP gone nuts over Dems’ support for police. [Click]
GOP Lawmaker Failed to Disclose As Much As $17 Million In Trades [Click]
Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media, particularly of the right-wing persuasion. [Click]
Maricopa County won't reuse voting equipment that was with Cyber Ninjas for “audit” [Click]
Trump’s July 4th Rally Cancelled [Click]
The Man Who Will Never Go Away [Click] “No former president since Richard Nixon in 1974 has been a major factor in off-year congressional elections after he left office. . .But Trump in 2022 promises to be the exception — and nothing could make the Democrats happier. . .By Election Day 2022, Trump will probably be talking about how little green men flying undetected in UFOs altered the ballots to elect Biden.“
Lawmakers Increase Spending on Personal Security [Click]
New York City Mayoral Race Gets Closer [Click] I am amazed that they haven’t yet tabulated any absentee ballots.
"[Republicans] just seem to consider ‘defunding the police’ a sort of metaphysical position that has nothing to do with actual police-department budgets.” From what I can see, this is more than half true. There are calls for police reform and for spending money on other things to reduce crime and deal with it more effectively, but this does not necessarily or even typically call for reducing the police department's budget.
DeleteRe NYC mayoral race: New York doesn't start counting absentee ballots until the deadline for their arrival has passed. We saw that in November.
DeleteAbsentee ballots were not due until June 28th. There would be no point in counting them until they are due. There are, it seems, traditions in election administration, as we were advised by our local administrator when he explained why votes cast early were not counted until election day. In the past, if the number of absentee ballots received was not sufficiently great to make a difference, they were not even counted. That was what happened in Florida in 2000 and then Gore exacerbated the situation by wanting only some counties recounted, theregy setting up a violation of equal treatment scenario. Of course, in 1992, the Clinton/Gore did not even bother to campaign in Florida. The closest they got was Valdosta, Georgia.
DeleteThe response of the main political parties had been to divide the electorate between them under the umbrella of 'take it or leave it.' In 1988 Dukakis campaign had no presence in Florida, other than a bunch of boring position papers. We made the mistake of asking the campaign for permission to put up our own get out the vote radio ads and were denied. None of the carreer political operatives were keen on having more people voting. It was about then that the evangelicals decided to take over the Republican party.
Clyburn endorses rival to Nina Turner in Ohio special election [Click] That activates my outside agitator gene. I think having someone in Congress who has shown she is in favor of protecting men’s reproductive health is a fine idea.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to read that Turner (who I have contributed to) is the frontrunner.
DeleteTalking Points Memo: The bipartisan infrastructure proposal isn’t paid for—that’s play acting. [Click] Rather as I had suspected.
ReplyDeleteGravitational waves have brought us long-sought proof of a cataclysmic meeting between a black hole and a neutron star. [Click]
ReplyDeleteRelative of Cheddar Man discovered living less than a mile from Cheddar Cave. [Click] Wow! Not a new story, but I hadn’t heard it before.
ReplyDeleteAt last, I have stopped. Spent the day prepping for a visit from our three eldest granddaughters...soon to be 12, 14 and 15. We pick them up tomorrow midday and gave them until Thursday evening. So exciting!! We really love these three!!! 💙💚💖
ReplyDeletepuddle! So glad to hear your doc visit went well. Did the doc come to you or did you have to leave the nest?
ReplyDelete'Never seen anything like this': At least 134 sudden deaths reported in Metro Vancouver, most related to heat [Click]
ReplyDeleteGeez. . .
DeleteThey always come, I never leave, lol!
ReplyDelete“The New York City mayor’s race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night when the city Board of Elections released a new tally of votes in the Democratic mayoral primary, and then removed the tabulations from its website after citing a ‘discrepancy,’” the New York Times reports. Maybe they could count better if they got a taste of the lash? Are those yahoos doing the counting by hand?
ReplyDeletearound 10:30 p.m., the board finally released a statement, explaining that it had failed to remove sample ballot images used to test its ranked-choice voting software. When the board ran the program, it counted “both test and election night results, producing approximately 135,000 additional records,” the statement said. The ranked-choice numbers, it said, would be tabulated again.
DeleteHouse votes to remove Roger Taney bust, Confederate statues from the Capitol [Click]
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