Shortly after I posted about mama and baby bunny, mama rabbit stopped coming around. Young Bun keeps visiting the back yard though, scrounging for seed under the birdfeeder. Lately, it's had a special treat of fallen peach leaves and a nice, ripe peach. Something chewed off the end of a branch bearing the peach and it landed on the ground where ( Read more... )

Mama and baby bunny made an appearance today. Baby is growing up fast. He was about half this size the first time we saw him. Baby still makes an attempt to suckle now and then, but Mama is having no part of it.


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I had a horrible, but not unusual experience as I drove home this evening around 7 on the 280. There was plenty of sunlight left, which enabled me to see, well ahead of me, an unfortunate doe that walked into the four-lane freeway. She wasn’t running and seemed to have no sense of the danger she was in. I’m always scanning the side of the road as I ( Read more... )

Stinking hot here today. Predicted high of 95. No A/C in the house and my office is in the garage. Bleh ( Read more... )

It's official!

http://io9.com/5916819/this-september-the-creator-of-jem-will-write-dc-comics-most-1980s-fantasy-heroine

I had one of those "oh shit" moments today. I was out running errands, one of which was to go to an auto parts store for spare oil to keep in the car. The weight of the oil is helpfully printed on the oil cap, so I raised the hood to remind myself I had the info right...and I had no oil cap ( Read more... )

We just saw BATTLESHIP and it absolutely kicks ass. I have maybe one quibble so tiny it doesn't matter. We enjoyed every minute of it. Highly recommended.

Saw two spectacularly good pieces of entertainment this weekend: the new BBC Sherlock Holmes "Scandal in Belgravia" and the Avengers movie. Both excellent in every way.

The Fable of the Century: http://robertreich.org/post/20538393444