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Little Miracles in Nature
We got out to Terry Trueblood Recreation Area and Sand Lake looked like it rose a little. We saw a bald eagle and lots of flowers, bumblebees, and a whole line of bicyclists smiling on their way by on the trail. It was overcast which helped keep the heat down, at least for a while.…
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Heat Forecast for Annual U of Iowa Psychiatry Dept Kickball-Play Cribbage Instead!
OK, a reminder that the University of Iowa Psychiatry Dept. Annual Kickball game is on for this coming Monday, June 29 and the heat forecast from the National Weather Service is for temperatures to be in the 90s with heat indices in the 100s. The announcement about the kickball game is: “What: Psychiatry department annual…
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Reblog of “New Namesake for Johnson County”
My blog post entitled “New Namesake for Johnson County” on this date in 2021 is reblogged below. The name of Johnson County had originally been named for a slaveholder. That was changed on June 24, 2021 when it was renamed in honor of Dr. Lulu Merle Johnson, a distinguished African American scholar.
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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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Red-tailed Hawk Pecking at Breakfast
We got a video of a Red-tail Hawk eating a mouse—or maybe it’s better to say it looked like it was trying to eat it. The last time we saw the hawks in the nest we saw only one chick in the nest. That was a little over a month ago. I just read that…
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The B-Side of ‘Keb ‘Mo on KCCK with Bobby D
Well, I got a surprise last night on KCCK radio on ‘da Blues show with Bob DeForest (Bobby D). I know a couple days ago I wrote about ‘Keb ‘Mo and his optimistic song “All Around the World.” But last night I heard a different song by him and it was one I’d never heard…
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Jazzy Indigo Bunting in the Garden
We’ve gotten a visitor to Sena’s garden. It’s a brilliant male Indigo Bunting. While it looks like it’s a brilliant blue color, it’s really a gray bird. Like the Blue Jay, its feathers don’t have blue pigment, but they refract sunlight. This makes them look blue. There are actually two distinct species of bunting. The…
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Optimistic Blues Music: “All Around the World” by TajMo on KCCK with Bobby D
It’s been a week since I heard the song “All Around the World” by Taj Mahal and ‘Keb ‘Mo on the Iowa KCCK radio show ‘da Blues on Friday night hosted by Bobby Deforest (Bobby D). Compared to all the other blues tunes, that one sounded almost too optimistic for a blues song. A couple…
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Post Office National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign
Reblog time! I wrote about this back in 2023. It’s the United State Postal Service (USPS) annual Dog Bite Awareness Campaign and its importance for our postal service delivery persons to feel safe from dog attacks. The good news is that “In 2025, dog attacks on postal workers dropped to just over 5,200 incidents nationwide.”…
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New Talking Statue of Iowa City Historian Irving Weber!
Here’s a short news item about Iowa City historian Irving Weber, whose statue is on Iowa Avenue in downtown Iowa City. You can also find the notice about the talking Irving Weber statue at this link. This has a couple of connections to point out. Irving Weber worked in the dairy industry for man years…
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