If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man –Mark Twain
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Feeder Friends
Returning from California, I finally got my act together and placed a couple of bird feeders on my deck, something I’d been meaning to do for some time. We’ve been enjoying our visitors and I have been having fun trying to get pictures of them. Like this downy woodpecker… this black-headed grosbeak …. …and these …
Bottom of the Barrel
This Denver Post article tells us that United Airlines and US Airways, who are in merger talks, are the two lowest rated airlines in customer satisfaction in this country. I wasn’t asked to vote, but having to fly both of them fairly frequently out of DIA, I wouldn’t disagree.
The Shroud
When I was a young man I was fascinated by the Shroud of Turin, mostly I think because of the striking image that it carries. In the late 1980s the game seemed to be up on its status as a religious relict when radiocarbon assays on cloth fibers from the Shroud showed it dated no …
Groundstone
We’ve just finished the current phase of fieldwork out in the Imperial Valley and I’ll try to do some catch up posts to talk about some of our finds. My apologies for my long pause in posting. We found quite a few groundstone artifacts on our survey. Above you can see a mano (hand stone) …
Seaweed at Monte Verde
The NY Times has a piece today on seaweed quids that have been discovered at a 14,000 year old level at the site of Monte Verde in Chile. Monte Verde is about 50 miles from the coast, so this shows that there was travel to the coast or trade with people who lived there. Tom …
Fast Times
(Update: why tomatoes go quickly once they turn…) Maybe it’s me, swamped at the office and ferrying the kids around to uncounted activities, or maybe it’s life in the warm South, but hasn’t the spring sprung past us in a hurry? My “new” Harris hawk is about a year old; and just two months after …
Pursuits of Happiness
Wicken FenHelen finally came back online Monday with a revealing post in signature Pluvian style. For everyone in search of the naked self—your truest incarnation—and the way to be where it belongs, Helen’s discovery suggests it may not be so far away. Pursuit of happiness is one of our stated missions at Querencia. How many …
Links
Frantically working on a book proposal, but still surfing. Here are a few links for fun and annoyance… I am with the Codger on this one: can’t fault a tame bear for acting like a bear. More fatalistic societies don’t: “When an elephant kills its mahout in Sri Lanka and India, new mahouts clamor to …
News and Views on Meat
A friend recently gave us some antelope tenderloin, shot with a bow in Wyoming last fall. I grilled it last night, along with some venison sausage that my wife added to her catch-all pasta and feta dish. A Meat-lovers Tuesday. Having never grilled this particular critter, I kept it simple: cut to small steaks, let …