As I was outside today, I noticed there was a sparrow perched on the roof of the smaller toolshed. It was a rather raggedy looking sparrow, and as I got closer, it didn't fly away as most other wild birds would have. When I got a good look at it, I realized that its eyes were watery, one was completely closed and crusted over, and the other was ( Read more... )

The other day, in my hunt for crinoids, I thought to check the old rock pile in the back of the woods behind the house. I hadn't been back there since I was a child, really, but I can remember spending hours in those woods playing and searching the rocks for geodes and other fossils. I was usually barefoot, even though my mother told me off for ( Read more... )

Adam recently acquired two more goats. These are not cute little pygmy goats, like the others. These are Boer goats, which are much larger and far more tempermental. The smaller one isn't so bad, but the other one is big and mean and stinks to high heaven, despite all efforts to groom him ( Read more... )

Ok, I found this poem today while poking around the website for fossil hunting in kentucky. the author was apparently born in Louisville, and died insane and alone in an asylum in 1883. Grim, eh? But the poem is both beautiful and very, very sad. just wanted to share ( Read more... )

I should have really learned my lesson about parking under the trees at work. If you park under the trees at that place, your car will probably be attacked by squirrels and/or crows the size of small dogs. In fall, acorns will fall like tiny brown hailstones and ping off your hood and become lodged in your air vents ( Read more... )

So yesterday, I came inside after playing with the pony to hear my cell phone ringing away. It was my mother ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was about to leave for Adam's when I noticed that the dog was going nuts in the front yard. Barking and growling at something down in the corner, against the fence ( Read more... )

Adam's goat had a baby the other night. It's so cute..all tiny and wobbly. His goats are pygmies, so they're already really small, so the baby isn't any bigger than a cat right now.

I got some pictures of him yesterday:


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Last night, I went over to Adam's to find him burning some scrap wood and brush in his backyard. After that, he planned on hauling out the pump for his pool and draining out the rainwater that had collected in the tarp (it's an above-ground pool that he drains and tarps over for winter ( Read more... )

I'm starting to think that my office is racist central. Yesterday, two of the department chairs for programs within the business and masters degrees were meeting with the Dean of academics. They needed to hire more instructors, so they were going through a pile of applications they had recently received ( Read more... )