Perhaps you all may be already aware of my pigeon waving to random persons around the city of Asheville a year ago. It seems now that harmless and docile birds are a thing of the past and I have moved on to slightly larger and more interesting things. Raptors, to be a touch more lucid. Not four hours ago I encountered what seems to be an injured ( Read more... )

We have acquired another duck. As far as ducks go, it is quite a handsome little wood duck that was given us by Courtney who found and rescued it as a mere duckling (which it still somewhat looks like because wood ducks do not get very large). The bestowing of the bird upon us was a result of its growing older and figuring out how to fly a bit, ( Read more... )

What a quiet night it is tonight. Not only have I the inability to fall into slumber at present, but also quite a disinclination to do so. There is a full moon shining in the clear sky above, though not directly down upon us as it shimmers through the trees, and silence abounds throughout. Even the sound of a stray cricket is very difficult to hear ( Read more... )

I had occasion to go hiking up the mountain last night, and it came to be more of an adventure than is quite standard for my general hiking experiences. The venture actually began as a small mission to see if Seth had dismantled and brought down the tent that he set up halfway toward the ridge for a short camp out last weekend. Usually there is ( Read more... )

I just learned, a bit over three hours ago, that my cousin shall be here this evening (which will actually be a while, as it is merely 0350 on this gloriously cold 18th of May. What sort of mischief can we muddle in, I wonder? Or perhaps I do not, but that we shall be indulging in the indicated mischievious acts is only too certain.

Last Saturday I ( Read more... )

One more red tulip left in our flower beds. It always saddens me to see them go. They are blooming out suddenly that you almost forget to look at them before they are wilted away again. I suppose that makes them somewhat special to see, but I am going to need a tulip someday and I will only be able to get my hands on one if it is just the right ( Read more... )

Hmm. I am not entirely certain why, but mom does not usually smile upon packages arriving in the post with my name addressed on them. It seems she cannot fathom why on earth I (or anyone) would possibly need a 15 inch SOG knife that has been tested by weeks of submersion in saline water; 17 rounds of a .45 being fired at the blade; a hundred pounds ( Read more... )

I have noted, lately, that I am being asked less often now when I can expect to no longer be a minor. Apparently, I appear to be in the vicinity of 15-17. Perhaps because most of the people assuming so are in their last decade or two of life, and any young adult (which is merely a statement of my actual age, not of that which I act) seems nearly ( Read more... )

There are not many books to be found anymore in our house that I have not read. Thus I was rather enticed by something I realised last night as I was looking over the bookshelves upstairs. There are 50 1909 volumes of the Harvard Classics sitting upstairs, and I have only read six. A challenge for myself, then. I intend to read every one of those ( Read more... )

It has been a lovely week of something viral for me. I think it has been at least 10 years since I was quite so sick. Today, though, I shall pretend to be recovered where I still am not feeling quite recovered and pop off to work directly. The lovely part of the week was that I slept more throughout it than I think I did all last month combined ( Read more... )