Can 70 pound lab-mix mutts be a lap dog?


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I never get tired of walking on a cool clear night with stars out. Though I need to polish up on my star-finding ability - I tried taking my lap top out there with some star chart websites, but my poor eyes quickly got tired of the transitions from dark sky to bright screen and back again ( Read more... )

Although Sadie is a good companion, I find myself really missing my sweet, wonderful rats. I'm rat-less at the moment, and don't really have the room for one with a dog right now. Nor do I have the inclination for another animal to take care of after being responsible for so many at work. And I don't miss the smell. But someday, maybe, I will ( Read more... )

I came across this while working a fair for our nature center:


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I love the look of dogfennel, even though it's a weed and doesn't contribute much to the ecosystem other than building up the soil once it dies in winter.


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Here's an ailanthus moth, a very common bug to find in South Carolina this time of year.


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Answer: Anywhere it wants to.


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I just finished watching Lord Love a Duck - a bleak, strange and disturbing 60s teen movie. I think it's the only bleak, strange, and disturbing 60s teen movie, period. Fresh and bizarre, lots of bitter satire, some weird plot and character choices, and some great acting, including Roddy McDowell, whom I've always had an inexplicable soft spot ( Read more... )

I got my CSA bag today, which had a very nice varieties of all things veggie...and 4 small turnips. We've had a steady stream of turnips and I'm running out of ways to cook them. They're very good, actually, but they're still turnips. So tonight I tried making ginger-turnip pancakes, under the theory that all things taste good when mixed with ( Read more... )

I'm watching Sherlock Holmes on our public tv station now and when Jeremy Brett is on his game as Holmes, he is ON. Wow. Though the poor guy got so haggard and ill as the series progressed, and I prefer his initial cold-iron-pole look, same as I pictured when I read some of the books and stories. (The actor who plays Watson remains pretty much ( Read more... )