Last night I had the privilege of listening to Craig Johnson for an hour. He is very funny and can tell a story that will have you laughing til your stomach hurts. Don't know who he is, how about Walt Longmire. If you don't know who Walt Longmire is, you should just stop reading now. Craig Johnson writes the Longmire books that have turned into 6 seasons on A&E and now Netflix. This will be the final season. I have not read the books because I was engaged in the TV series and I understand the books and TV shows don't really match up. So I figured when the TV series ends then I will start reading the books. I have always loved Westerns; the movies, the TV shows and the books. Walt Longmire is a sheriff in a county in Wyoming. He is a man's man, a real cowboy. Robert Taylor plays Walt Longmire and is a perfect fit. The reason he was selected for the role is because the author was asked to look at DVD's of possible actors and Robert Taylor was the last one. During the pilot show he goes to a woman's house to deliver a death notification. When she opens the door he removes his hat. That is who Walt is a real gentleman and voila we have Walt Longmire. He is very easy on the eyes as well.
If you have not checked out Longmire it is worth the watching. But you may have to watch the shows several times as there are many storylines as one main one as to who killed Walt's wife. I will be sorry to see the show end, but maybe as the rumor goes there will be a TV movie for each book kind of like the Jesse Stone books.
In case you have not looked up Robert Taylor yet here you go:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853079/
Friday, September 22, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Never Forget
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2017/09/a-great-way-to-never-forget-make.html#.Wbaky7pFzIV
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Tomatoes and Dragons
I love cherry tomatoes especially the yellow ones. I got this one plant of yellow bells and holy crap batman, it is growing like there is no tomorrow, it is crawling over the brick flower bed onto the front porch. I hope I dont go out the front door one day and it eats me.
The Rose of Sharon is finally blooming, I think she got too much rain and not enough sun.
The fennel and larkspur have got a second wind with the cool temps and rain. I have never grown larkspur but i will again. I have a new caterpillar.
This was a sunflower until the deer overnight ate all the flowers about to pop out. That deer sure would taste good on my plate.
The marigolds are providing for some seeds for next year. I love marigolds in all the colors and love the smell as well. This one thinks the grass is greener on the other side.
NO this is not a flower. I was asked to make this little red dragon for part of a item to be auctioned at the Irish Center Gala last week. He is a Susan B Anderson pattern.
The Rose of Sharon is finally blooming, I think she got too much rain and not enough sun.
The fennel and larkspur have got a second wind with the cool temps and rain. I have never grown larkspur but i will again. I have a new caterpillar.
This was a sunflower until the deer overnight ate all the flowers about to pop out. That deer sure would taste good on my plate.
The marigolds are providing for some seeds for next year. I love marigolds in all the colors and love the smell as well. This one thinks the grass is greener on the other side.
NO this is not a flower. I was asked to make this little red dragon for part of a item to be auctioned at the Irish Center Gala last week. He is a Susan B Anderson pattern.
D27 Whereabouts
A lot of birds are on the move right now as migration begins and
juvenile birds disperse.We're hearing about peregrines noisily defending
bluffs, migrating nighthawks and warblers, and concentrations of
red-tailed hawks along roadways and ditches. Interested in what might be
heading your way? Check out Cornell's BirdCast for migratory bird
forecasts and news: http://birdcast.info/
As always, thanks to Brett Mandernack and the Eagle Valley crew for sharing their data with us! If you'd like to dive a little deeper into D27's travels (or any other eagle we've tracked), visit https://www.raptorresource.org/eagle-map/.
Fly strong, D27! Our little eaglet isn't all grown up yet...but she's sure gaining her wings.
As always, thanks to Brett Mandernack and the Eagle Valley crew for sharing their data with us! If you'd like to dive a little deeper into D27's travels (or any other eagle we've tracked), visit https://www.raptorresource.org/eagle-map/.
Fly strong, D27! Our little eaglet isn't all grown up yet...but she's sure gaining her wings.
Monday, August 21, 2017
Clouds
It is Eclipse day, laying out in the driveway about the size of a fingernail left of the sun. It got eerily quiet and the wind completely died. In the distance I hear fireworks and half of my neighbors are out. It had been cloudy most of the day and then the sun came out. The more we laid outside the more the clouds came. It got darker and quieter and then bam there is one big ass cloud. Really you could not wait a few more minutes? I got to see some flares and the cloud move over the sun and the final ring, but nothing else as the sky opened and we barely got in the house before the rain came. Oh well, we go to see some of it so all is not lost and the food my friends brought well, we had quite the feast.
Just as everyone got there the thermostat died so good thing I have ceiling fans and it is not beastly outside or we would have been eating in the basement.
Hope you go to see the eclipse today cos it was pretty cool.
Just as everyone got there the thermostat died so good thing I have ceiling fans and it is not beastly outside or we would have been eating in the basement.
Hope you go to see the eclipse today cos it was pretty cool.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Learn the Lingo
How many times do you come across an acronym that you just can't figure out. If you work for the government they have way too many and each agency has their own for the same letters, it is like you need a dictionary to look them all up. Knitting also has their own lingo, so to keep up with your fellow knitters, her you go:
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
It's A Girl
Many thought D27 was a girl and sure enough she is. They put a transmitter on her and now we can watch her. She was my fav this season, the crazy stuff she did like falling out of the nest, the refusal to fledge and her constat squeeeeeing for mom and dad to bring her food. May you soar the thermals and soar high and may we watch your travels for a long time.
A bit from RRP on her catch and putting the transmitter on her.
Persistence Pays Off - a post by Brett Mandernack about the fitting of D27's transmitter.
It is early August and I have one satellite transmitter (or PTT) yet to deploy on a young eagle. Dave and Ann Lynch spent two solid weeks in late June/early July perfecting their craft of artful presentation of fish to the Decorah fledglings, yet the “kids” instead chose to food-beg loud and often and insist Mom or Dad bring them food at the nest. There was no evidence of any of the fledglings ever picking up a fish during that time. In previous years we’ve had multiple fledglings coming to the same spot – the mulch pile – for some easy meals, and usually within just a few days of watching and waiting for our talented trout tossers to appear.
When visitor attendance diminished at the hatchery in late July, all three fledglings were still being spotted with regularity by several of our sharp-eyed eagle watchers. Hatchery biologist Brian Malaise and I kept in touch often and he and his crew again put fish out in the same spot. Lo and behold, the female, D27, began showing interest and eventually took advantage of these easy meals each morning. One of the males was believed to have also helped himself to the free offerings.
We chose Monday, August 7 to attempt to capture whichever youngster decided to come to bait. My wife Carole, Eagle Valley Technician Ryan Schmitz, and I arrived at Willard Holthaus’s shop by 5:15 AM and quickly set the padam noose trap baited with three nice hatchery trout. Weather was perfect: 58 degrees, mostly clear sky, light wind. All equipment and supplies were laid out in the shop in anticipation of a successful capture. Then we watched and waited. A few adult calls were heard from near the nest tree by 6:05. Then at 6:15 an immature eagle appeared from the west just above treetop height. I speculated it was large enough to be female D27. She landed in the maple tree briefly, then headed toward the mulch pile, looped over that area, perhaps checking out what food might be there, then circled back and landed on the mulch pile. We had placed a small trout atop the mulch pile, which she decided looked like a great appetizer. She rather daintily ate the fish and began eying the three trout just two feet away. She walked inside the padam, grabbed a fish or two in a foot, and tugged at them a few times as we all watched intently. When I was convinced she had a noose around a toe or foot, I gave the call to “GO, GO” and Ryan and Brian sprinted ahead to secure her. She was captured at 6:18, hooded, and taken to the shop where she was weighed (9.48 #) and had several measurements taken. The composite of those measurements revealed she is a small female. The entire process of getting measurements, banding, and fitting of the PTT was fluid and seamless.
Within an hour of capture we were ready to release D27 and begin what is likely the final chapter of the Decorah eagle tracking story that began with our beloved D1 back in 2011. After placing her back on the mulch pile, she quickly oriented herself and flew north alongside the N1 Cottonwood tree to settle along Trout Creek.
A bit from RRP on her catch and putting the transmitter on her.
Persistence Pays Off - a post by Brett Mandernack about the fitting of D27's transmitter.
It is early August and I have one satellite transmitter (or PTT) yet to deploy on a young eagle. Dave and Ann Lynch spent two solid weeks in late June/early July perfecting their craft of artful presentation of fish to the Decorah fledglings, yet the “kids” instead chose to food-beg loud and often and insist Mom or Dad bring them food at the nest. There was no evidence of any of the fledglings ever picking up a fish during that time. In previous years we’ve had multiple fledglings coming to the same spot – the mulch pile – for some easy meals, and usually within just a few days of watching and waiting for our talented trout tossers to appear.
When visitor attendance diminished at the hatchery in late July, all three fledglings were still being spotted with regularity by several of our sharp-eyed eagle watchers. Hatchery biologist Brian Malaise and I kept in touch often and he and his crew again put fish out in the same spot. Lo and behold, the female, D27, began showing interest and eventually took advantage of these easy meals each morning. One of the males was believed to have also helped himself to the free offerings.
We chose Monday, August 7 to attempt to capture whichever youngster decided to come to bait. My wife Carole, Eagle Valley Technician Ryan Schmitz, and I arrived at Willard Holthaus’s shop by 5:15 AM and quickly set the padam noose trap baited with three nice hatchery trout. Weather was perfect: 58 degrees, mostly clear sky, light wind. All equipment and supplies were laid out in the shop in anticipation of a successful capture. Then we watched and waited. A few adult calls were heard from near the nest tree by 6:05. Then at 6:15 an immature eagle appeared from the west just above treetop height. I speculated it was large enough to be female D27. She landed in the maple tree briefly, then headed toward the mulch pile, looped over that area, perhaps checking out what food might be there, then circled back and landed on the mulch pile. We had placed a small trout atop the mulch pile, which she decided looked like a great appetizer. She rather daintily ate the fish and began eying the three trout just two feet away. She walked inside the padam, grabbed a fish or two in a foot, and tugged at them a few times as we all watched intently. When I was convinced she had a noose around a toe or foot, I gave the call to “GO, GO” and Ryan and Brian sprinted ahead to secure her. She was captured at 6:18, hooded, and taken to the shop where she was weighed (9.48 #) and had several measurements taken. The composite of those measurements revealed she is a small female. The entire process of getting measurements, banding, and fitting of the PTT was fluid and seamless.
Within an hour of capture we were ready to release D27 and begin what is likely the final chapter of the Decorah eagle tracking story that began with our beloved D1 back in 2011. After placing her back on the mulch pile, she quickly oriented herself and flew north alongside the N1 Cottonwood tree to settle along Trout Creek.
Sunday, August 06, 2017
More Caterpillars
Today i was looking at my fennel in the whiskey barrel with some larkspur. Hey what is this? I have 2 large caterpillars munching away. I read the adults munch on fennel and the caterpillars munch on the milkweed. I have seen nothing on the milkweed but here are these 2 big boys, looking they are ready to cocoon soon. Maybe I will have some butterflies afterall. On the bottom picture you need to look below the stalk that is pretty bare and there he is. On the top picture look under the top spead of seeds.
Saturday, August 05, 2017
Mrs Wilsons Knitting Circle
Today the lecture was about the silk thread embroidered post cards that were made during the war. These postcards were either mailed or taken home. They look like hankies cut and glued on post cards with the back available for a note to send home. They are beautiful and so delicate in intricate. I don't think I could do this kind of work. Th colors of the different countries that were our allies are used in the decorations. There are several butterflies and they have the different flag colors in their design.
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Bob Anderson
Has it been 2 year since Bob Anderson left us to soar with the thermals and those eagle gone to the great beyond. In case you don't know who he is: He was the man behind Raptor Resource Program who gave us the Decorah Eagles nest cams. He also was big on getting the Peregrine Falcons back into the numbers enough to keep them around for a long time. He never seemed to sleep and even had a cam of the birds in his back yard. I am sure he is looking down on the latest 3 and thinking all is good and knowing that he gave us a look into nature that we may never have had. Thank you Bob for all you did to save these magnificent raptors that you loved so much.
Saturday, July 15, 2017
RIP Sweet Julius
http://www.marylandzoo.org/2017/07/heavy-hearts-maryland-zoo-says-goodbye-julius/
Since the watch of Tajari's impending birth and afterwards there have been many baby giraffe's born. However Julius had difficulties from birth just a month ago. Every thing was tried to save him but alas nature sucks today and he is gone. RIP Julius, we loved you for the short time you were with us.
Since the watch of Tajari's impending birth and afterwards there have been many baby giraffe's born. However Julius had difficulties from birth just a month ago. Every thing was tried to save him but alas nature sucks today and he is gone. RIP Julius, we loved you for the short time you were with us.
Friday, July 14, 2017
The Left is at it Again
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2017/07/13/untitled-n2354545?utm_campaign=socialflow_townhall&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
I have two female cats. One is named Bucky Crookshanks after Bucky Cat in the Get Fuzzy Cartoon and Crookshanks is the name of Hermione's cat in Harry Potter. One is named Groucho Marx because she has the Groucho mustache. Bucky is a long haired black cat with a bit of white. Groucho is a tuxedo cat.
So I have probably misgendered them according to the article. No I did not ask them if they wanted to be spayed, they were the product of stray females who had litters and I did not want to deal with them going into heat and all that goes with that, knowing they were never going to have kittens. I did not ask them what they wanted to be named either. When I want them both to come with me to the basement if we have a bad storm, I often say come on girls and they come. They don't look at me and say why do you call me girl. They pee like a girl and their DNA is a girl, so therefore, they are girls. I can't change that. God make them girl kitties and I am not about to go against what He made. Those of you who know me know my girls are my children and they are spoiled; but to think they get a say in what happens to them is not gonna happen. They could care less. As long as they have food, water, a clean litter box and a lap to sit on and toys to play with and they live inside 24/7 well they don't care.
Like so much crap the left spews today this is another person who needs some serious help. No wonder the country is in the mess we are today.
I have two female cats. One is named Bucky Crookshanks after Bucky Cat in the Get Fuzzy Cartoon and Crookshanks is the name of Hermione's cat in Harry Potter. One is named Groucho Marx because she has the Groucho mustache. Bucky is a long haired black cat with a bit of white. Groucho is a tuxedo cat.
So I have probably misgendered them according to the article. No I did not ask them if they wanted to be spayed, they were the product of stray females who had litters and I did not want to deal with them going into heat and all that goes with that, knowing they were never going to have kittens. I did not ask them what they wanted to be named either. When I want them both to come with me to the basement if we have a bad storm, I often say come on girls and they come. They don't look at me and say why do you call me girl. They pee like a girl and their DNA is a girl, so therefore, they are girls. I can't change that. God make them girl kitties and I am not about to go against what He made. Those of you who know me know my girls are my children and they are spoiled; but to think they get a say in what happens to them is not gonna happen. They could care less. As long as they have food, water, a clean litter box and a lap to sit on and toys to play with and they live inside 24/7 well they don't care.
Like so much crap the left spews today this is another person who needs some serious help. No wonder the country is in the mess we are today.
Monday, July 03, 2017
Edible Eagles
Before PETA comes swooping in these are eagle cookies and they are just too cute. I would have a hard time eating them because of their cuteness. I am sure if I tried to make them it would be a Pinterest fail, but they would be cute to make.
http://noblepig.com/2010/07/edible-eagles-for-the-4th-of-july/
http://noblepig.com/2010/07/edible-eagles-for-the-4th-of-july/
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