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Head Stall Boogie!
Remember that off the head juggle I was trying to learn way back over two years ago? The other name for it is the head stall and I could not get the hang of it. I watched video after video and the performers who could do it all did it the same way—which I could…
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Monarch Butterfly Tagged for Life!
As I announced yesterday, we put together a short YouTube video on the tagged monarch butterfly we saw yesterday at Terry Trueblood Recreation Area, with the help of another guy who pointed it out to us. This was a lot of fun because we didn’t know anything about the monarch tagging project. The tagging project…
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We Found a Tagged Monarch Butterfly Today!
We’re both pretty excited today because we found a tagged monarch butterfly with a guy’s help out on the Terry Trueblood Trail. We saw quite a few monarch butterflies around the flowers and saw a man spending a lot of time getting a video of one of them with his smartphone. Sena remarked about how…
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Cone Flower Feast
Sena got a very cool video of a goldfinch pair feeding on our cone flowers in the back yard. They were oblivious to everything around them. They were almost oblivious to each other! It was a peaceful scene.
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See The Patio Slicer Tomatoes!
I have an update on Sena’s patio tomatoes. The last time I wrote about this, there were virtually no slicer tomatoes although there were a lot of cherry tomatoes. There are now visible slicer tomatoes in the pot on the right, which I’m sure will make it to our dinner table soon!
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Mighty Hawk!
Today we saw this cool Red-Tailed Hawk on the fence—sort of, in a manner of speaking. This hawk was definitely not on the fence about getting brunch though. It would fly off the fence a few times and we expected it would come up with a mouse or squirrel or something—empty claws. The woodchucks are…
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The Hummingbird is a Blur!
Yesterday I noticed a hummingbird hovering about the flower pots on our porch. I hurried to get my point and shoot camera and shot video, through a window as usual and it was getting a little late in the evening too, so light was low. Can I blame the bird for always looking like…
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The Garden After the Rain and Some Juggling
Sena got some video clips of the backyard garden. The woodchuck was out there but pretty much left her stuff alone. She caught a clip of what looks like a house finch as well. For some reason, possibly involving extraterrestrials, there was some guy juggling out there.
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Gorging Goldfinches Distract Us from Cribbage!
We were distracted from our cribbage match today when Sena saw a couple of goldfinches out in the back yard. One of them was clearly a male, bright yellow all over except for his black wings. The other was probably a female because it was olive colored. The sunlight must have varied because at times…
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Meet Mr. Slim Indigo!
Just like a few days ago, yesterday evening while we were playing cribbage, Sena spied a slim indigo bunting. This one flew right up to our window! It was probably not the same one we first saw. That guy was buff, likely because he’d been branch pressing in the gym. This character was slim and…
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