Mastodon or Mammoth Skull
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
OK, I meant to link to this part of UM’s Museum of Zoology in the last post but forgot. I guess I’m just geeky enough to find it amusing to play with spinning animal skulls. (They would also be very useful for students to [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Animal Skulls that Spin…Wheeee!
Posted in Mammal, tagged ID, Mammal, skull on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You Wrascally Varmit…I mean, Marmot!
Posted in Mammal, tagged backyard, groundhog, hole, Mammal on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Chucky’s back. (Of course, the fact that I am lobbing old apples out back might have something to do with that…..)
Our old friend/nemesis the woodchuck (aka: groundhog, marmota monax, whistle pig, rat with a bushy tail….) has been making daily appearances in our backyard lately. I haven’t been able to get any good photos, as it [...]
Blog Angst
Posted in Daily Life, tagged Library on September 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have not posted anything because I had some sort of Neo-Luddite fit. Since late Thursday, I haven’t ventured online at all. Dunno, just felt like I needed to unplug from the computer, TV, radio, world, etc……
Not that Euell Gibbons and I were out eating pine trees and singing “Valerie, Valera” or anything. In fact, [...]
The Loaf of Death!
Posted in Daily Life, tagged bread, grape nuts on September 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In a fit of culinary creativity, I decided to bake something with out a real recipe.
This is quite remarkable because a.) I don’t normally cook much of anything that doesn’t require just pushing a microwave button and b.) even if I cook using a recipe to the letter it nearly always turns out inedible (G. [...]
Crisp! Gotta love Autumn
Posted in Daily Life, tagged autumn on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Took Bear for a walk around the block tonight: It’s a beautiful, cool evening with no mozzies out, kids riding bikes are wearing jackets (aww, Mom, it’s not that cold out!) and in the distance you can hear the marching band at the high school football game…..I think I’m going to burst into song! I [...]
Cult of the Rusty Star
Posted in Random, Scottish, tagged cult, Scottish, star on September 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What’s up with all the rusty stars suddenly appearing at an alarming rate on the side of houses?!
It seems like they are everywhere (join us, join us….) Eek!
Maybe this is just the latest rustic outdoor fad, like gazing balls, wooden bent over fat lady bums and dressed up concrete geese? (seriously, someone has waaaay too [...]
Gardens Gone Wild!
Posted in Bad plants, tagged garden, messy, weeds on September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
OK, maybe, just maybe, it’s time for me to consider weeding the patch out back. This was meant to be either a vegetable or native plant garden this past year. As you can see, um, that didn’t exactly happen. I’m using the term “garden” very loosely here, although it does have a wooden boundary around [...]
Weeding for Wasps
Posted in Bad plants, Insect, tagged Insect, wasp, weeds on September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few weekends ago, I was out mucking about in what I loosely call a garden and noticed an odd thing. I had let the weeding go for quite a while and then we had buckets of rain, so the weeds were towering over my sad, rabbit eaten hostas. It was a bit overwhelming, so I just tucked in and [...]
The Scarlet “N”: You Shameful Nail Biter, You!
Posted in Daily Life, Random, tagged hand, nail biting on September 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’m getting waaaay off track from nature posts here, but I am easily distracted (hey, look, something shiny…) So, this story about nail biting and a new “cure” for it is on a lot of news pages today. Being a Biter of Nails myself, I read it out of curiosity. And, according to the article, [...]
Four Years and Counting!
Posted in Daily Life, Random, tagged breast cancer on September 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today is my four year anniversary of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
The “milestone” number is typically five years, although there is some dispute over this with younger womens’ cancers. Anyway, I say just keep the years a’comin’! (I’m planning a big day for the five year mark, however).
Also, no one has clearly decided on if [...]
