Category: nature
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There’s a bit of Catch up to do, this is the state of the Island. Oh brother what a state it is in.
Everybody’s famous in a small town, this one is no different
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Now is the time to plant and wait, or wait and plant?
Bluebirds strip the fruit every year, they don’t wait for them to ripen, green fruit satisfies them.
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When does News become Olds? Is the 24-hour News cycle News worthy?
The 24-hour cycle has created an ocean of people obsessed with the news, the problem is there is not that much new news.
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Is there hope? Two dogs were lost in six square country miles, they were the size of shoe boxes.
One of the best ways I can come up with to describe this morning is Postcard Perfect, photographs of a morning as today’s make beautiful screensavers. I sat in the middle of it drinking my coffee while taking it all in. Over the weekend, I’m writing this on Monday morning, a lady lost her two […]
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Storm Damage, how can we make sense of it all? Repairs are in progress, mostly.
Looking out one window to the North this morning all I saw was a blue sky with a few clouds mingled in, I told Skunkpuppy it looks like the rain let up. As I climbed higher on the ever-expanding flight of stairs gazing west from another window the sky was ominous, dark and foreboding. After […]
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Is Oroville Dam ready? The water is rising fast, do you wonder where it all comes from?
Wet is the best way to describe this morning, the rain let up long enough to sit in the Crows nest to take stock of the slough. Winding around our island this is a small part of the 1500 miles (2414 km) of the Delta, just over 1% of the total weighing in at 17 […]
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Why are some birds out today, and not the mammals? Is it possibly a prediction of a different event?
Something is always going on along the slough, most of the time it is a subtle quiet sort of occurrence but always a “what in the heck was that?” moment. This morning was not any different, the female Red Tail Hawk is out and about again under this cloudy grey sky. Hunger is the most […]
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Will there ever be a way to eliminate the threat of wildfires caused by transmission lines? Yes, there is.
Most mornings I get dressed in work clothes as if I have something to do, but I feel better when I pull blue jeans on topped with a working shirt. I have a morning routine that begins with giving Skunkpuppy a biscuit after she pretends like going outside is her top priority. All types of […]
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How much disaster insurance is enough? Will Earthquake, Flood, Wildfire, Homeowners and Automobile do?
The weather here compared to nearly everywhere else on the planet is good, practically boring. Our rainy season on the west coast will be over in two months, by the middle of May it will have completed its turn in our cycle. Then the dry out begins until the winds begin in late August with […]
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Are you losing your passion? Feel like you want to quit? Why not take a break, and change things?
Being an outside guy it’s pretty hard to trek up the stairs to a dreary dark sky, granted the weather in my stretch of the woods is not typically challenging as it is in most of the country lately. One blog I wrote explained my belief that the weather on the West Coast is more […]
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