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Showing posts with label Critters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Critters. Show all posts
Monday, July 27, 2026

The Electrocuted Owl

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OK, technically this both is and is not the right picture to go with the story that follows.  As I've documented previously the first ac...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Anger Goose Does Not Approve

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I've had four footed "grandkids" before.  Often young couples have a dog before they have kids.  I've gotten on well with ...
Monday, July 13, 2026

Cache as Cache Can

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With a bit of free time on my hands I've been paying attention to the string of geocaches that I have out in the world.  I mostly enjoy ...
Monday, June 22, 2026

June Wild Life

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Seen on a morning walk.  Pretty lame camo, bro. Seen hiding in the side yard bushes.  I guess this is the time of year when fledglings get o...
Monday, June 8, 2026

Digger's Day Out, Continued.

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So how do you follow up on a visit to an honest to goodness Plague Village ? For us the next stop was bizarre antiquities.  There is an anti...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Vindolanda 2026 - Day Seven

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Wally World.   Spent a good part of the day chasing a wall.   The barracks room we were in was constructed circa 213 AD.  On top of a differ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Rescuing the damn Donkeys

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In the Great Clean Up there are moments of whimsey and of despair.  Sometimes they coincide.  Digging through strata of long irrelevant junk...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Responding to the Bat Signal

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In the course of exploring Forgotten Brewery Caves and other underground places I occasionally encounter bats.  This has led to collaboratio...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Frog Mummy

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  I was up north the other day, doing a bit of prep on the new deer hunting property.  There are two nice box stands, each about 15 feet up ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Hank and the Coyotes

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Hank is a dog with large ears and a small brain.  So while he loves being up at the cabin he gets a bit confused.  Happily confused for the ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Karma of the Caterpillar

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What a remarkable summer.  It started early, and just kept on going. We are still enjoying warm days even as the October shadows lengthen.  ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Hank versus that Snooty French Squirrel

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Hey, all squirrels are punks.  On that humans and dogs concur.  My dog Hank is particularly antagonistic to them. On a recent walk we came a...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Eve's Revenge

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Seen at a surplus store.  Evidently a real product, but alas, nobody named Eve actually associated with the company. And no, there is no con...
Friday, August 2, 2024

Hank Versus the Rodents of Unusual Size

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Hank loves walks so much he's willing to compromise on some basic dog instincts.  I do not care to have my shoulder pulled out of its so...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Dead Worm Number Five

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When I'm off on archaeology digs I have a pretty good "eye" that lets me trowel away at a brisk clip and still detect changes ...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Home with the Turkeys

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Back home. It's a long journey.  We woke up at 6am back in Northern England.  A fellow excavator gave us a ride to the Newcastle airport...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Magna 2024 - Amphibians

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No update yesterday.  It rained all day and the site could not be walked in much less excavated.  We had talks in the morning and a nice wal...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Non Zero Odds of a Stinkbug

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I'm occasionally advised that turning a Dixie Cup upside down is Wrong, yet another example of the Error of my Ways. To which I'd re...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

FIRST Robotics 2024 - Tournament Bound Again

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And here we go again.  The FIRST robotics competition season runs for six weeks.  This year we had the longest possible gap between two even...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Beached Whale

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So here's something I had not seen before.  And likely never will again. Near one of the areas we fish at a 70 foot long Sperm Whale had...