Scalzi Returns

  Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place. Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the …

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A solitary mason bee pulling a nail out of a hole in the wall

A better version on Facebook. Solitary bees are the most important bees by a wide margin. One solitary bee pollinates 80x the amount a honey bee does. Facebook comments from the narration above. It is highly likely this was staged but as they say it is a formidable feat by the bee.

Dog Wheel

  Let us hope 2025 is more than going nowhere fast even if it is fun.   Happy New Year

Hares avoiding raptors.

Youtube videos Compilation video on facebook ​ I wasn’t aware that they jumped to avoid raptors.

Mallard eats fish.

​I wasn’t surprised that a duck, even a puddle duck, would eat a fish but this many at once was a surprise. Many more.

Italians and Italy

Percent Italians by US county Steve with his Italian roots might find a surprise there. I did. I thought it would be more spread out.   Northern Italy has just climbed a little higher on our to-do list. This one has got to be one of the prettiest hybrid marble trout I have seen in …

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​Mosasaurus teeth?

​Mosasaurus teeth from Morocco found on Sidi Chennane Basin are 66 million years old. Fossil Paleo It is hard to believe but it is a hotspot for such fossils.

“Stream in the Forest” – Andrey Nikolayevich Shilder, ca.1906

“Stream in the Forest” – Andrey Nikolayevich Shilder, ca.1906 I love the light. Gustaf Fjæstad, Cold Winter Evening Bang on for that cold damp cold we get here. I am cold just looking at it. ​ Funny how I wrote this up and the next day we had those rare rime ice\hoar frost conditions here.

Another Interesting Piece

My Collath 14ga finally showed up… perhaps the most exquisite gun I own out of a LOT! James John Babcock Another in 16?