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  • Our New Family Member - July 21st, 2008
  • Here are two pics of our new little family member, a Senegal Parrot tentatively named Butterscotch. (Hey, at least it’s an improvement over “bird-bird”!)
    She REALLY likes carrots! (but wasn’t so excited about the flash…)

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  • More From Montana - April 16th, 2008
  • Donna’s uploaded some of her “take” on our trip to Montana. The pictures are in her Flickr stream, and you can view a slide show, too.
    It’s always interesting to look at pictures of the same subjects, taken by two people standing side by side. Some are almost exactly the same, and others, vastly different.
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  • Render unto Caesar… - April 14th, 2008
  • Yes, that’s right, tax returns are now (finally) filed. Nothing like waiting until the last minute.
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  • Persian! - February 14th, 2008
  • When we were in Virginia last Friday, we ended up having dinner at a little Persian restaurant near our hotel.  It was a rare treat: I got to order directly from the menu, with no modifications required for my gluten-free diet!  COOL!
    So, tonight at Borders I picked up a Persian cookbook.  A trip to the [...]

  • tmi - and you’re not getting mine! - February 13th, 2008
  • got a call this evening from someone identifying themselves as being from a financial services company, and claiming to have business with me, but requested that i verify my identity first by giving my date of birth and one other piece of info (i’ve already forgotten - it may have been address. i’m just not [...]

  • Election Day - February 13th, 2008
  • Today was election day.  Here’ s a run-down on the phone calls:
    2 days ago: 1 recorded call from the Huckabee campaign
    yesterday: 1 live-person call from the Obama campaign
    today: 1 live-person call from the Obama campaign, followed by a recorded call from Obama’s wife, followed by yet one more live-person call from an Obama supporter.
    So, 5 [...]

  • Afternoon at Assateague - January 27th, 2008
  • Went to Assateague today. Although none of the ponies were on greeting duty today, one was being quite sociable. This one ambled over to our car as soon as we parked in one of the lots, and had to see if there was anything in the car suitable for lunch. No doubt [...]

  • Busy day in the backyard - January 19th, 2008
  • It was a busy day in the backyard today.  We were graced by visits from a Tufted Titmouse, Downy Woodpecker, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Carolina Wren, Blue Jays, Dark-Eyed Junco, House Sparrows (anyone know how to keep them away?), House Finches,  Mockingbird, and our Cooper’s Hawk.
    The hawk flew in right on top [...]

  • Things that make you go hmm… - January 13th, 2008
  • A development over on the eastern shore has this sign at its entrance:
    Adventure Farms
    A Planned Community
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  • This amused me today… - January 7th, 2008
  • This and this amused me today…
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