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Learn to Juggle YouTube Videos
I did that bounce off the knee trick yesterday, and I looked at a YouTube to get the gist of it. And then I remembered the JuggleGym YouTube site. Logan has a ton of juggling tricks and even has one with her and her dad doing tandem juggling together. Type in “dad” on the site.…
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Bounce Ball Off the Knee Juggling Trick!
I had an audience (Sena) today for my new easy juggling trick, which is bouncing the ball off your knee. This trick was in my original booklet in the learning how to juggle kit, which I got 3 years ago. I never bothered to learn it. I looked it up on the internet and teachers…
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Happy Place
Sena’s happy place is the garden. Our backyard, as usual, looks like the best in the immediate neighborhood, and she’s heard that from others besides me. She has cultivated a flower garden in every place we’ve lived. They always look like a park. That fits because this is National Park and Recreation Month!
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Hawk Morning Exercises
We saw the Red-tail hawk messing with our rake out in the backyard garden. It looked like it was either exercising or trying to fly off with it—to do what was a mystery. It also attacked our property corner marker, which is just a wooden stick. Chuck Norris could kill two sticks with one hawk.…
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Hawk and the Be the Umbrella Pose
Sena got a pretty good video of a Red-tail hawk doing what some (maybe most) people would call the “horaltic” pose. There is a long discussion of whether the word “horaltic” is even a word. Some people suggest that the word should be “heraldic” but that probably doesn’t fit either. By the way, “horaltic” is…
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Is it Horaltic or Heraldic Hawk?
We had a short rain yesterday morning and the Red-tail hawks didn’t like it a bit. Sena’s has been saying there are three hawks out there—and that turns out to be true! Maybe they’re all nest mates. They were flapping around trying to dodge the rain drops. After the rain stopped is when the entertainment…
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Two Hawks on the Fence Flinch at Mobbing Little Birds
We got sort of a comedy show by what we suspect are a couple of young Red-tail hawks on our neighbor’s fence. They looked a little clumsy, like they’re still getting used to their wings. We’re not sure why they were pecking at the ground. And for a couple of seconds they got dive-bombed by…
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The Hawk is a Head Bobber
The interesting thing about the Red-tail hawk in the video we got was that it bobbed and tilted its head a lot. It just looked really odd. So, I looked on the web to find out why it does that. It turns out that a hawk’s eyes are fixed in its skull, so in order…
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Are These Hawks Talking?
We saw these two Red-tail hawks sitting together at the top of a tree in the outlot past our backyard. They seemed like they were somehow talking either to or at each other. We couldn’t tell whether it was a male and a female or not. But it didn’t look like they were having a…
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Guess Who Came to Dinner?
Sena noticed a Red-tailed hawk feasting on something this morning. It’s pretty different from yesterday, I can tell you. At first, I thought it was a squirrel. Sena made a better identification. See if you can guess. This hawk knew what it was doing and it looked hungry. It also peered all around and up,…
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