This item is a little old, but it happened while I was busy moving and couldn’t get to it. The LA Times reported that the city of Santa Monica has been faced with a problem where one of its parks has been overrun by a population explosion of ground squirrels. And what did the city …
Author: Reid Farmer
Auctions
This NY Times piece on an auction of fossils and antiquities has it right – it is painful for paleontologists and archaeologists to watch these things. Artifacts and fossils taken from the context of their deposition lose much of their ability to contribute to scientific analysis.
Prairie Rambles
The last seven years we had been living in a suburban tract house, so when we bought the house here at Moonshine Gulch, I was happy that we could get some property around it. Here is Sadie out back. I must say I have never had a yard before that was narrow-leafed yucca, gramma grass, …
Stressed
After the movers had picked up all the furniture, our dogs seemed to doubt our assurances that they were coming to Colorado, too.
Roast Capybara – A Holiday Treat
The NY Times had an interesting piece on how the meat of the giant rodent, the capybara, is a prized delicacy in Venezuela, expecially during the Lenten season. Apparently the local Roman Catholic church has given it a status more akin to fish than meat. The article reminded me of a post I did last …
Colorado Arrival
Well, we finally did make it here to Denver last Saturday. The movers delivered all of our stuff last Monday, and we are slowly making our way through the sea of boxes in our new house to unpack. We actually found the pots and pans last night and got to really cook, as opposed to …
Reid Moving Update
I told you all back in mid-December that Connie and I are moving to Denver and at that time gave our ETA as sometime in January. We made a house hunting trip in December but couldn’t come up with anything. In the subsequent weeks our attempts to continue looking were interrupted by the holidays, the …
Pluvialis Abroad (Again)
Pluvialis is at large again in Central Asia. She blogs on the road from Tashkent and tells us she’s on her way to Khiva. Pluvi is giving many of us a bad case of travel envy.
A Parrot for Life
Congratulations to Rebecca O’Connor who has a new book out on raising and training parrots, “A Parrot for Life.” Get your autographed copies here.
Weather Vane
While house hunting in Colorado a couple of weeks ago, I saw this unique weather vane on a barn outside of the town of Parker. A very realistic model of a B-17!