I watched a household of turkeys chicks develop this summer season. The younger chicks are so weak, not alert, sluggish, can’t fly and no technique of protection. The hen softly clucks when the household is shifting by means of the woods and meadows so the chicks can maintain monitor of her. However the smooth clucks are additionally alerts to predators for meals-on-wheels. This 12 months’s household began with eight chicks, however misplaced three early on. The remaining 5 are doing fantastic.
I learn loads of fiction in lots of genres. I get pleasure from books with robust girls lead characters, so often I’ll learn books corresponding to Patricia Cornwell’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta sequence. I simply completed, Unnatural Publicity. Then there’s Elizebeth Peter’s Amelia Peabody archeology sequence set in Egypt within the early 1900s. What a robust, feisty character. It’s best to work by means of the sequence from the primary guide, fairly than learn them randomly.
JD Robb’s Lieutenant Eve Dallas sequence. Should begin with the primary guide. Dallas and Rourke butting heads. And the way Peabody (sure, one other one) developed into her personal.
Early one morning, simply mild sufficient to see the place I used to be stepping, I walked into the again yard to distribute cracked corn and scratch grain for individuals who cease by for breakfast. There was a younger doe on the market, only some months previous. She
got here inside 4’ of me. If I held out the bowls a pair toes, I might not have been shocked if she nudged them. I wasn’t making an attempt to get near her, I used to be simply strolling alongside and he or she got here to me from the facet. First chuckle of the day.
I got here throughout the concept of planting a tree with ashes from an urn. There are additionally biodegradable urns. Form of a technique to come again to life. Good concept.
One morning a small, puffy hummingbird flew as much as the feeder. Regular. However the hen didn’t know methods to entry the sugar water. Not regular. It tried sipping rain water on prime. Hovered beneath sipping leakage drops. Flew alongside the seam between the 2 backside halves. No success. The hen got here again a short while later to attempt once more. As luck would have it, anther hummingbird flew shut and hovered. Ah, right here we go. Not so. The primary hen chased the second hen away. It’s not as if he was guarding his sugar water. A month later, I believed I acknowledged the physique of a specific hen. It was sippin’ by means of the slots. Then backed off and hovered beneath the feeder to sip leakage drops and alongside the seam for an inch or so. Glad he figured it out.
As you all know, if one thing startles mourning and white doves, they take to the air, in mass. Not so with Montezuma quail. They run away, as an alternative of fly off. I’ve but to see one fly. Cute.
Accomplished the sixth Nikoli sudoku guide, Genius Stage. I solved each puzzle, so it can’t really be genius degree puzzles, however lots of the over 300 had been powerful. Nikoli has not but come out with one other degree above this, so I bought one other Genius. It’s not as if I’m going to recollect any. I definitely get pleasure from sitting down with a puzzle most days. Offers me a break. My thoughts can’t deal with the rest whereas engrossed with fixing a puzzle.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
GRANDMA!
Wait! Wait!
STOP the funeral!
The ball is in your courtroom. Choose it up and go.
These are in your Pre-Urn daystake advantage of them.
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July Triple 18higher: 3000; core: 2850; legs: 2925
