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2012-04-08 at 8:37 a.m.- photo essay: a baby great horned owl grows up
2012-04-07 at 9:12 a.m.- loyalty card box
2012-04-06 at 8:27 a.m.- crane box
2012-04-05 at 8:48 a.m.- shiny
2012-04-04 at 10:20 a.m.- my amazon reviews for "alex and me" and "a crack in space"
2012-04-03 at 8:51 a.m.- goals and resolutions quarterly check-up
2012-04-02 at 7:39 a.m.- i'm number one and modest too
2012-04-01 at 8:52 a.m.- now available for nooks, wheeeeee!
2012-03-31 at 9:03 a.m.- petoskey
2012-03-30 at 7:31 a.m.- obama and me
2012-03-29 at 7:31 a.m.- the new book is finally out!
2012-03-27 at 11:53 p.m.- owl on the edge
2012-03-27 at 7:46 a.m.- holey moley, batman, i drilled my first stone!
2012-03-26 at 7:10 a.m.- think about what matters most, and modest too
2012-03-25 at 8:23 a.m.- madder than a wet hen?
2012-03-24 at 8:39 a.m.- tricolor
2012-03-23 at 1:09 p.m.- great horned owl and bald eagle babies on display at fontainebleau state park
2012-03-22 at 7:35 a.m.- getting up to speed in wordpress, if we're talking speed of snail
2012-03-21 at 9:52 a.m.- trying to start up a blog just for the peachfront and pet bird coverage
2012-03-20 at 7:28 a.m.- dendrites
2012-03-19 at 10:10 a.m.- book in question was on the power of networking but i don't think there's a network in the world gonna fix this
2012-03-18 at 8:27 a.m.- chop chop
2012-03-17 at 9:21 a.m.- the grocery wars
2012-03-16 at 8:08 a.m.- pink jade
2012-03-15 at 8:41 a.m.- snake in the backyard, snake in the front yard, the little rustle of tails in the grass going on all over
2012-03-14 at 8:55 a.m.- our first hole drilled in stone
2012-03-13 at 8:11 a.m.- the sound of one rubber band snapping
2012-03-12 at 8:38 a.m.- tee pee canyon take two
2012-03-11 at 8:58 a.m.- teepee canyon red agate
2012-03-10 at 8:20 a.m.- card protector
2012-03-09 at 7:06 a.m.- owl, swan, cowbird
2012-03-08 at 12:16 p.m.- baby great horned owl, c'mon, this is cuteness
2012-03-06 at 10:23 a.m.- red-shouldered moment
2012-03-05 at 8:52 a.m.- some little wins for the weekend
2012-03-03 at 7:23 a.m.- crystals, do your thing!
2012-03-02 at 11:16 a.m.- anyone want a crystal/mystical reading this weekend?
2012-03-01 at 7:48 a.m.- a nudge of the invisible elbow from the little voice
2012-02-29 at 8:52 a.m.- quadriceps
2012-02-27 at 6:05 p.m.- ronnie lays an egg, make that two eggs
2012-02-27 at 7:03 a.m.- book exchange -- clear out pounds and get back ounces
2012-02-26 at 7:29 a.m.- nothing real is ever simple, and thanks to the irs for that really speedy email acknowledging that your form downloader ate that form, now what?
2012-02-25 at 7:43 a.m.- juvenile cooper's hawk eating until she pops: a few photos
2012-02-24 at 9:31 a.m.- at least we got a free sailing lesson out of it, sigh
2012-02-22 at 9:13 p.m.- mardi gras madness owl prowl part three: owl prowl throw in the towel
2012-02-21 at 7:59 p.m.- the mardi gras madness owl prowl day two: pirates search the lake and harbor for the owl in absentia
2012-02-20 at 8:47 p.m.- the mardi gras madness owl prowl: back in the third world again
2012-02-18 at 9:17 a.m.- a couple of small sales
2012-02-16 at 12:23 p.m.- life begins at forty and ends at fifty
2012-02-15 at 9:57 a.m.- valentine's, birthday, all that good happy crappy
2012-02-13 at 7:36 p.m.- milky eagle-owl framed in stone mosaic and other adventures
2012-02-12 at 8:05 a.m.- a few photo highlights from the wild and wacky bird of prey tour of south africa
2012-02-11 at 8:21 a.m.- cheetahs on the prowl in kruger
2012-02-10 at 8:11 a.m.- a barn owl in the hand is worth a blur in the bush!
2012-02-09 at 8:09 a.m.- peachfront's journey into the mountainous kingdom of lesotho
2012-02-08 at 9:05 a.m.- cheetahs of the kalahari
2012-02-07 at 6:48 a.m.- january 2012 "bird of prey" south africa checklist with all the red-necked falcon and crowned eagle cuteness you can stand!
2012-02-06 at 6:30 a.m.- a whole lotta highly hazardous lions on the loose in south africa
2012-02-05 at 6:47 a.m.- two whackadoo oryx
2012-02-04 at 7:15 a.m.- two legends
2012-02-03 at 7:44 a.m.- the birds we banded
2012-02-02 at 6:54 a.m.- a mammal and miscellaneous list from my trip to south africa, january 2012
2012-02-01 at 5:36 a.m.- final farewell of the booted eagle
2012-01-31 at 5:42 a.m.- goshawk hires a spotter, martial eagle broods, cheetahs play tag
2012-01-29 at 9:09 a.m.- in pursuit of booted eagles and red-neck falcons
2012-01-28 at 6:16 a.m.- blue crane dancing
2012-01-19 at 9:32 p.m.- ain't nothing cuter than a little old lammergeier fledgling in the cliffs hoping to hustle his parents for food even though he's just as big as they are
2012-01-18 at 10:40 p.m.- it's raining long-crested eagles, it's raining amur falcons
2012-01-17 at 11:19 p.m.- hell is other people, heaven is crowned eagle
2012-01-16 at 11:04 p.m.- clear the road, brown snake-eagle, there are lions in the street
2012-01-16 at 12:57 p.m.- never any shortage of vervet monkeys hustling the tourists in this world
2012-01-08 at 1:59 p.m.- saints win, marsh owl wins
2012-01-07 at 7:28 a.m.- a stroll or two around korsman bird reserve, j'burg
2012-01-06 at 12:26 p.m.- mostly i snoozed on my exciting business elite flight to jnb
2012-01-05 at 8:59 a.m.- hell, how is it my fault that i'm better & cooler than you in every way?
2012-01-04 at 12:42 p.m.- meteor right or meteor wrong?
2012-01-03 at 3:56 p.m.- a propitious story for the new year
2012-01-02 at 12:19 p.m.- don't be that guy, i hate being that guy
2012-01-01 at 4:24 p.m.- welcome to 2012
2011-12-31 at 1:50 p.m.- resolutions 2012: where do you go after you've seen the peachfront frolicking in the wild?
2011-12-30 at 5:08 p.m.- the vermillion flycatcher marches east
2011-12-29 at 11:35 a.m.- grinding away
2011-12-28 at 9:26 a.m.- resolution scorecard 2011: year of the peachfronts going two by two
2011-12-27 at 8:48 a.m.- cookie was cheering for the wrong team, go figure
2011-12-26 at 12:14 p.m.- rain, rain, rain, butterbutts, rain, rain, more rain
2011-12-25 at 11:53 a.m.- goodwill toward northern cardinals
2011-12-24 at 8:24 a.m.- i may not "deserve" a christmas sweater with reindeers on it to put on my bottle of maker's mark but that's what the maker's mark guys sent me anyway for this year's gift...they didn't provide the bottle you understand
2011-12-23 at 8:31 a.m.- remember when i found those black cockatoos in australia by following the sound of chewing? it's like that
2011-12-22 at 10:36 a.m.- i've said it before and i've said it again, the most beloved artist in san francisco must be the "free beer" guy, now THAT'S a statement
2011-12-21 at 7:04 a.m.- a puddle jump goes down better with small batch bourbon
2011-12-20 at 9:48 a.m.- it's christmas a few days early
2011-12-20 at 8:35 a.m.- the fate of fish and house guests
2011-12-18 at 7:12 p.m.- lost and found
2011-12-18 at 9:23 a.m.- sheepskin
2011-12-17 at 9:22 a.m.- money, money, money on a rainy day
2011-12-15 at 9:18 p.m.- puddle jumper
2011-12-14 at 8:14 p.m.- page 36 of the online mineral museum: tourmaline crystals and their (mostly modern) lore
2011-12-14 at 8:09 a.m.- page 35 of the online mineral museum: quartz starbursts on pyrite, huaron, peru
2011-12-13 at 8:24 a.m.- page 34 of the online mineral museum: around the world in quartz
2011-12-12 at 9:06 a.m.- page 33 of the online mineral museum: an introduction to arkansas quartz
2011-12-11 at 10:18 a.m.- page 32 of the online mineral museum: the mystery of the alabama smoky quartz encrusted black petrified wood
2011-12-10 at 6:26 p.m.- pink botswana
2011-12-09 at 12:42 p.m.- new kindle
2011-12-08 at 11:07 a.m.- too-whit-a-whoo, the feeder is covered with chipping sparrows
2011-12-07 at 7:37 a.m.- my spooky tour of london and paris, three sites (skulls included free of charge)
2011-12-06 at 3:30 p.m.- a whole lotta swappin' goin' on
2011-12-05 at 10:30 a.m.- saints stand back and let their opponent beat themselves, i guess that's one way to do it, but it's a scary thing to watch if you ask me
2011-12-04 at 9:28 a.m.- page 31 of the online mineral museum: diamond hill, south carolina smoky quartz and amethyst giant
2011-12-02 at 8:14 p.m.- smoke a spliff and fly, or don't, whatever, don't trip on the armadillo
2011-12-01 at 9:28 p.m.- part six of my whirlwind tour of paris, london, and vancouver: robot toilets, because i've always wanted to call an entry robot toilets, haven't you?
2011-11-30 at 7:19 p.m.- part five: paris perfect!
2011-11-25 at 7:31 p.m.- part four: i have nothing to say and i'm saying it
2011-11-24 at 3:58 p.m.- part three: the outcast dead
2011-11-23 at 1:03 p.m.- part two: travel is hell
2011-11-22 at 12:04 p.m.- part one: london and paris, the high speed version
2011-11-21 at 11:14 a.m.- turkey insanity
2011-11-20 at 10:17 a.m.- roast that turkey!
2011-11-19 at 8:28 a.m.- i thought mirliton used to have an e in it
2011-11-18 at 8:38 a.m.- old sweaters
2011-11-17 at 9:32 a.m.- according to one reviewer, the paint job in his room could best be described as "an orange sunset in hell"
2011-11-16 at 9:25 a.m.- make room! make room! one beatles poster at a time, well two at a time, if you want to get technical about it
2011-11-15 at 9:12 a.m.- turkeys, turkeys, everywhere and not a drop to drink!
2011-11-14 at 10:41 a.m.- overtime over-excitement
2011-11-13 at 10:09 a.m.- turk's caps are in bloom and i'm ready now for my winter hummingbirds
2011-11-12 at 9:20 a.m.- giving thanks and giving ingratitude, you never know around here
2011-11-11 at 8:06 a.m.- no leftovers
2011-11-10 at 8:24 a.m.- curses on these cats
2011-11-08 at 6:32 p.m.- the condors are circling
2011-11-07 at 6:49 p.m.- the farewell gambling tour, part five -- playing tourist in macau and hong kong
2011-11-06 at 12:44 p.m.- part four of the farewell gambling tour: i take macau
2011-11-02 at 9:30 a.m.- the farewell gambling tour, part three -- i finally hit some numbers
2011-11-01 at 10:10 p.m.- part two of the farewell gambling tour: greektown, detroit
2011-11-01 at 10:11 a.m.- the farewell gambling tour, day one: new orleans
2011-10-30 at 4:38 p.m.- a round-up of photos from yellow rail and rice festival 2011
2011-10-30 at 9:01 a.m.- our yellow rails and rice trip list, with three, count 'em, three lifers
2011-10-29 at 5:24 p.m.- king rail joins the list list, and we re-new our forgotten friendship with laconte's sparrow
2011-10-28 at 7:14 p.m.- you think i'm joking but those clowns in texas are missing a good bet by not hiring peachfront to break their drought
2011-10-27 at 8:13 p.m.- yellow rail and pectoral sandpiper, my two new louisiana birds, my two newest life birds...go YELLOW rail
2011-10-26 at 2:57 p.m.- who brings the rain to jennings, louisiana?
2011-10-25 at 12:45 p.m.- from holier than righteous to macaw totem pole
2011-10-24 at 12:07 p.m.- 62 points? sheesh, that's practically a basketball score, not football, heh heh heh
2011-10-23 at 3:44 p.m.- bathing birdies
2011-10-22 at 3:33 p.m.- it's that time again -- love is in the air for the winter-breeding southern bald eagle
2011-10-21 at 8:15 a.m.- d.c. discount trip part 4: the trip goes profitable
2011-10-20 at 7:55 a.m.- d.c. discount trip: memorial madness
2011-10-19 at 7:35 a.m.- d.c. discount trip part 2: giant gems
2011-10-18 at 9:22 a.m.- d.c. on a discount: getting there
2011-10-17 at 7:10 p.m.- spinning in circles some more
2011-10-13 at 9:08 a.m.- two of the new whooping cranes have been killed
2011-10-12 at 8:23 a.m.- picking out the purple pellets
2011-10-11 at 8:52 a.m.- northern neighbor
2011-10-10 at 9:37 a.m.- yum, yum, small parrots on the hoof
2011-10-09 at 9:18 a.m.- the century plant that blooms once in a hundred years
2011-10-08 at 8:51 a.m.- stone mosaic number 6: wine rack -- easy
2011-10-07 at 12:22 p.m.- mustard colored paint
2011-10-06 at 10:41 a.m.- weigh no weigh
2011-10-05 at 9:52 a.m.- the orange cat
2011-10-04 at 8:19 a.m.- frog versus squirrel
2011-10-02 at 1:24 p.m.- garage sale post-mortem
2011-10-01 at 3:39 p.m.- garage sale balloon pop
2011-09-30 at 11:41 a.m.- roadblock
2011-09-28 at 10:10 p.m.- 171,172 miles...
2011-09-28 at 9:24 a.m.- money in a golden stream or at least a golden trickle
2011-09-27 at 8:25 a.m.- the one about where you're stuck in the back seat and you look over and there's no one driving the car
2011-09-25 at 4:19 p.m.- stone mosaic project #5: a bigger, better, bolder box
2011-09-24 at 2:29 p.m.- framing pictures, taking pictures
2011-09-23 at 10:33 a.m.- the journal of joyce carol oates: 1973-1982
2011-09-21 at 7:43 p.m.- trashing the negative to make room for the positive
2011-09-19 at 10:19 p.m.- queens fall down
2011-09-19 at 11:57 a.m.- last bus
2011-09-17 at 6:35 p.m.- a set of queens
2011-09-17 at 10:41 a.m.- flying in circles
2011-09-16 at 9:02 a.m.- baby blue rims
2011-09-15 at 11:41 a.m.- pondering my next hustle, erm, i mean my next vacation
2011-09-14 at 8:35 a.m.- coyamito, who knows how many of these i sold unwittingly back in the day?
2011-09-13 at 8:30 a.m.- small craft putterings
2011-09-12 at 9:58 a.m.- india blackskin agate
2011-09-11 at 7:32 a.m.- 49 crazy laces
2011-09-10 at 10:39 a.m.- all welcome cookie's shiny new ride
2011-09-09 at 8:31 a.m.- ode to a bolivian mercedes
2011-09-08 at 8:41 a.m.- sniff, sniff, sniff
2011-09-07 at 8:49 a.m.- i think you can't go wrong if you assume that a potential car buyer is completely humorless
2011-09-06 at 10:02 a.m.- "peck" -adillos
2011-09-05 at 8:58 a.m.- tropical storm lee some more
2011-09-04 at 9:25 a.m.- tropical storm lee, or, when birds snub birds
2011-09-03 at 9:18 a.m.- a rain of rain
2011-09-02 at 9:57 a.m.- how about a rain of money?
2011-09-01 at 9:13 a.m.- sept. 10-19, 1999: a vegas trip blackjack trip diary
2011-08-31 at 8:19 a.m.- glory days: the story of the dd' blackjack machine (reprint from december 1999)
2011-08-30 at 8:36 a.m.- i said if i won the jackpot i would get an orange metal flake paint job with that kinda gold glitter in it on my next car so everyone is probably relieved that i was not the winner
2011-08-29 at 9:53 a.m.- out of glue
2011-08-28 at 9:39 a.m.- you know how some players just show up to sit around waiting to pick up the nuts or a big jackpot?
2011-08-26 at 8:57 a.m.- i've finally finished these tables, whew
2011-08-25 at 8:49 a.m.- page 30 of the online mineral museum: a pyramid of lucky stones
2011-08-24 at 8:59 a.m.- a pirate's greatest treasure is her parrot
2011-08-23 at 8:39 a.m.- i laugh at your so-called drought of 2011
2011-08-22 at 7:53 a.m.- who moved my jackpot?
2011-08-21 at 8:24 a.m.- crab legs crush
2011-08-19 at 9:42 p.m.- it's satsuma one-quarter of the way down
2011-08-19 at 8:23 a.m.- mission creep, the refurbished table edition
2011-08-18 at 8:47 a.m.- freecycle table project and double rainbows
2011-08-17 at 9:20 a.m.- inland empire
2011-08-16 at 10:36 a.m.- table refurbs, continued
2011-08-15 at 10:46 a.m.- at the speed of snail
2011-08-14 at 8:17 a.m.- rain at selected intervals
2011-08-13 at 9:14 a.m.- stone mosaic project #4: petrified stone box (very easy)
2011-08-12 at 8:40 a.m.- monsoon days, a trip report: vegas and southeastern arizona july 1999
2011-08-11 at 9:03 a.m.- coffee table
2011-08-10 at 9:10 a.m.- the hang-out
2011-08-09 at 9:30 a.m.- stand aside for redheads
2011-08-08 at 9:44 a.m.- eastern towhee joins the yard list
2011-08-06 at 6:22 p.m.- sleepy sleepy
2011-08-05 at 10:40 a.m.- they let just anybody walk around in the street with wine, imagine that
2011-08-04 at 11:53 a.m.- maytag bleu cheese and oak grilled ribeye
2011-08-03 at 11:45 a.m.- first tournament
2011-08-02 at 6:02 p.m.- downturn
2011-08-01 at 11:22 a.m.- kings hold up
2011-07-31 at 5:06 p.m.- the rain keeps coming
2011-07-30 at 6:09 p.m.- d. wins his first live poker tournament
2011-07-29 at 4:37 p.m.- aces versus kings, who needs it?
2011-07-28 at 3:37 p.m.- upgraded all the way
2011-07-27 at 7:13 a.m.- call him ringo
2011-07-26 at 8:36 a.m.- there's nothing quite like designing, building, and decorating a foofy stone mosaic concrete birdbath, only to see the bratty hummingbird in question decide to bathe in a leaf
2011-07-25 at 7:55 a.m.- stone mosaic project #3: tv tea tray
2011-07-24 at 8:12 a.m.- ruby-throated war of all against all
2011-07-23 at 7:31 a.m.- stone mosaic project #2: the birdbath -- easy, direct method
2011-07-22 at 7:34 a.m.- twenty-five cents a liter
2011-07-21 at 7:34 a.m.- baby woodpecker cuteness
2011-07-20 at 9:06 a.m.- forty dollars an ounce
2011-07-19 at 7:18 a.m.- scruffy ruby-throats and baby red-heads
2011-07-18 at 8:11 a.m.- when it rains, it pours
2011-07-17 at 8:08 a.m.- goodies in, goodies out, continued and so forth
2011-07-16 at 9:16 a.m.- results may be atypical
2011-07-14 at 8:34 p.m.- it don't get any better-looking than this, or courtney owns this yard and he's modest too
2011-07-14 at 8:27 a.m.- goodies in, goodies out
2011-07-13 at 8:57 a.m.- flan
2011-07-12 at 8:49 a.m.- when you live behind a goodwill, when you're active on freecycle and craigslist, when you sell and swap all over the internet...if you trash something, it's really trashy trash
2011-07-11 at 8:13 a.m.- hummingbird feeders not going all drippy for the moment, we shall see
2011-07-10 at 8:54 a.m.- spoiled rotten hummingbirds, the re-run
2011-07-09 at 8:12 a.m.- spoiled backyard birdies
2011-07-08 at 9:45 a.m.- photo sort
2011-07-07 at 4:26 p.m.- swallow-tails around town
2011-07-06 at 8:17 a.m.- better than breadsticks
2011-07-05 at 9:21 a.m.- red, white, and black -- red-headed woodpecker rules this bird feeder
2011-07-04 at 8:22 a.m.- page 29 of the online mineral catalog: calcite corner -- and a glimpse of pink halite too
2011-07-03 at 8:40 a.m.- my first tumbler run since the lot o'tumbler days
2011-07-02 at 8:35 a.m.- hooray for baby mockingbirds -- and, finally, a trio of swallowtail kites
2011-07-01 at 8:37 a.m.- and now for the hurricane half of the year
2011-06-30 at 7:47 a.m.- a swallow-tail kite's complaint
2011-06-29 at 7:55 a.m.- stone mosaic project #1: petrified wood picture frame (easy)
2011-06-28 at 9:00 a.m.- two wrens on a feeder, wagging their tails
2011-06-27 at 8:09 a.m.- vibratory explosion
2011-06-26 at 9:24 a.m.- sand bath
2011-06-25 at 8:06 a.m.- a rough plan for developing my mosaics
2011-06-24 at 9:34 a.m.- thundereggs on parade
2011-06-23 at 3:30 p.m.- make mine GOLD!
2011-06-23 at 8:21 a.m.- the grackles of garden grab
2011-06-22 at 7:46 a.m.- hmmmmmmmmm
2011-06-21 at 8:57 a.m.- fourteen karat
2011-06-20 at 9:16 a.m.- fuschia and yet they're not fuschias
2011-06-19 at 8:47 a.m.- defending this feeder territory is a full-time job
2011-06-18 at 8:39 a.m.- bronzed cowbird joins the yard list
2011-06-17 at 9:52 a.m.- a big white-eyed gypsum sphere joins the sphere collection
2011-06-16 at 9:07 a.m.- so you know what it's called when you have just one broad-winged hawk instead of 50,000? crowbait!
2011-06-15 at 9:06 a.m.- visit from a redhead
2011-06-14 at 11:47 a.m.- a seller's trials and tribulations
2011-06-13 at 8:57 a.m.- found a new home for the arc welder
2011-06-12 at 9:05 a.m.- let's sell some of this "stuff," people
2011-06-11 at 9:29 a.m.- chrysoprase lizard
2011-06-10 at 7:53 a.m.- rain, pink agate, frayed braids
2011-06-09 at 8:28 a.m.- the scorn of hummingbirds
2011-06-08 at 8:27 a.m.- tear-shaped stones
2011-06-07 at 8:43 a.m.- petoskey stone
2011-06-06 at 8:36 a.m.- maybe i'll tiptoe back to ebay
2011-06-05 at 7:40 a.m.- baffle a squirrel, it isn't just a good idea, it's what's for breakfast
2011-06-04 at 1:30 p.m.- burn after reading
2011-06-03 at 9:12 a.m.- pink thulite
2011-06-02 at 8:49 a.m.- blue topaz
2011-06-01 at 9:07 a.m.- button clasps
2011-05-31 at 7:43 a.m.- all this for a nickel?
2011-05-30 at 11:09 a.m.- picking up pennies, sometimes i find a ruby
2011-05-28 at 7:08 p.m.- a round-up of yosemite national park photographs, from this historic waterfall season
2011-05-27 at 9:18 p.m.- "they hate us for our freedom"
2011-05-26 at 6:56 p.m.- a photographic round-up of our trip to hwy 49 "gold country" in california
2011-05-25 at 7:00 p.m.- gold country, yosemite, and sierra valley, california bird list
2011-05-24 at 7:49 p.m.- the ten cent a pound sale, a trip report
2011-05-24 at 9:50 a.m.- bouncing around and up and down
2011-05-23 at 11:57 a.m.- sierra valley bird tour, may 22, 2011
2011-05-22 at 10:30 p.m.- three more life birds, and a tip of the hat to a fiesty american bittern who won't lay down
2011-05-21 at 6:28 p.m.- i discover a treasure trove in thundereggs
2011-05-20 at 9:58 p.m.- if a lark has horns, does it mean that the world will end?
2011-05-19 at 10:55 p.m.- hermit warbler joins the life list
2011-05-18 at 9:49 p.m.- holy cow, yosemite has a lot of waterfalls, or, oak titmouse and white-headed woodpecker join the life list
2011-05-17 at 9:55 p.m.- our car wimps out but we reach yosemite
2011-05-16 at 11:06 p.m.- loaded in gold country
2011-05-15 at 9:30 p.m.- snowstorm, hailstorm
2011-05-14 at 10:36 p.m.- gold fever
2011-05-13 at 8:23 a.m.- india blackskin agate and other prize nodules
2011-05-12 at 10:02 a.m.- blue birds, red birds, yellow birds -- lot of color in the yard lately
2011-05-11 at 10:04 a.m.- planet earth: unfit for human habitation!
2011-05-10 at 10:26 a.m.- i for one welcome our eastern bluebird overlords
2011-05-09 at 9:52 a.m.- i dreamed of peachfronts flying
2011-05-08 at 8:23 a.m.- a photo page from the amazing bolivian parrot adventure
2011-05-07 at 8:50 a.m.- the amazing bolivian parrot adventure trip list -- with all the blue-throated, hyacinth, and red-fronted macaw cuteness a birder can stand
2011-05-06 at 8:51 a.m.- part 12 of the great bolivian parrot tour: the long road home
2011-05-05 at 8:27 a.m.- part 11 of the great bolivian parrot tour: red-fronted macaws wouldn't deliberately taunt a black-chested buzzard-eagle...would they?
2011-05-04 at 8:22 a.m.- part 10 of the great bolivian parrot tour: all red-fronted macaws, all the time!
2011-05-03 at 8:32 a.m.- part 9 of the great bolivian parrot tour: run, rabbit, run
2011-05-02 at 8:26 a.m.- part 8 of the great bolivian parrot tour: riding around the pantanal where i find more hyacinth macaw and also get a ferruginous pygmy-owl serenade
2011-05-01 at 7:44 a.m.- part 7 of the great bolivian parrot tour: hyacinth macaws get freaky with it
2011-04-30 at 8:31 a.m.- part 6 of the great bolivian parrot tour: the episode where i hop on a cessna and find the hyacinth macaw
2011-04-29 at 7:21 a.m.- part 5 of the great bolivian parrot tour: lomas de arena, santa cruz, bolivia
2011-04-28 at 8:15 a.m.- part 4 of the great bolivian parrot tour: blue-throated macaw! we got your blue-throated macaws breeding right here!
2011-04-27 at 7:09 a.m.- part 3 of the great bolivian parrot tour: i am the seed-eater king
2011-04-26 at 7:50 a.m.- part 2 of the great bolivian parrot tour: if you think a blockade is going to stop peachfront from getting 19 life birds, i snicker in your general direction
2011-04-25 at 7:26 a.m.- part 1 of the great bolivian parrot tour: peachfront sees and photographs the peachfront
2011-04-24 at 1:13 p.m.- eat my dust, field guides, peachfront was here first!
2011-04-14 at 6:45 p.m.- if cute had a poster child, why wouldn´t it be a blue throated macaw with plenty of bravado
2011-04-13 at 12:29 p.m.- peachfront conure parakeet joins the bird list
2011-04-10 at 8:26 a.m.- wondering who would win a match-up between eastern bluebird and black-chested buzzard-eagle
2011-04-09 at 9:16 a.m.- are my babies really going to turn 21?
2011-04-08 at 8:43 a.m.- of cookie and the color purple
2011-04-07 at 9:21 a.m.- larimar again
2011-04-06 at 9:42 a.m.- strange days
2011-04-05 at 9:28 a.m.- two steps forward, two steps back, around and around, do-si-do
2011-04-04 at 9:29 a.m.- tibetan turquoise
2011-04-03 at 8:34 a.m.- can't a bird get his afternoon snooze in peace anymore?
2011-04-02 at 8:36 a.m.- my new hand axe
2011-04-01 at 9:13 a.m.- the making of a cab: a thunderegg teardrop with red plumes
2011-03-31 at 9:55 a.m.- big list, big diggins
2011-03-30 at 9:15 a.m.- page 28 of the online mineral museum: king of the cabinet, a huge, honkin' unbelievable oversized BLUE tampa bay agatized coral geode like you have never seen
2011-03-29 at 9:15 a.m.- pigeon blood
2011-03-28 at 10:43 a.m.- watermelon ruby in saussurite
2011-03-27 at 1:27 p.m.- some march cabochons, i hate to pick favorites, but that regency rose might be it
2011-03-26 at 4:43 p.m.- garage sale of the century, supposedly, hey, don't blame me, i didn't post the signs
2011-03-25 at 11:16 a.m.- j. edgar hoover does not approve this message
2011-03-24 at 10:28 a.m.- i find an emerald, so what did you do with your day? ha, thought so
2011-03-23 at 10:42 a.m.- a fine example to us all
2011-03-22 at 11:47 a.m.- may the bluebird of crappiness cast a hairy eyeball on all your springtime weeds
2011-03-21 at 10:37 a.m.- rise of the chocolate bots
2011-03-20 at 10:16 a.m.- page 27 of the online mineral museum: a shout-out to the ruby clan
2011-03-19 at 12:24 p.m.- page 26 of the online mineral museum: the beryl family, some emerald and aquamarine crystals for your viewing pleasure
2011-03-18 at 9:52 a.m.- creations and swaps
2011-03-17 at 10:04 a.m.- page 25 of the online mineral museum: blue, bold, and beautiful
2011-03-16 at 9:56 a.m.- indigo bunting, charoite, kunzite...rubies!
2011-03-15 at 9:35 a.m.- page 24 of the online mineral museum: adamite and hemimorphite from mexico
2011-03-14 at 11:08 a.m.- online mineral museum page #23: the natural agate "pots" of brazil
2011-03-13 at 11:21 a.m.- eagles make it look so easy
2011-03-12 at 9:22 a.m.- page 22 of the online mineral museum: rhodonite for beginners
2011-03-10 at 9:05 p.m.- new orleans mardi gras, bourbon and royal street -- viewer discretion advised
2011-03-10 at 8:57 p.m.- for those who might like to donate or would just like to know where a donation might be going
2011-03-09 at 8:23 p.m.- quick mardi gras photo
2011-03-09 at 10:32 a.m.- not washed away just yet
2011-03-07 at 11:07 a.m.- wild or feral, you be the judge
2011-03-06 at 1:07 p.m.- the experiment ends
2011-03-04 at 11:23 a.m.- i don't think i've done a mardi gras report since this diary started, tee hee, let's see how it goes, right now it goes rainy and grouchy
2011-03-03 at 10:48 a.m.- more broken eggs, i need to buy some more vitamin a
2011-03-02 at 1:54 p.m.- not with a bang but a whimper
2011-02-28 at 2:23 a.m.- i snicker in the general direction of your aces
2011-02-27 at 12:52 p.m.- red wontons
2011-02-26 at 12:54 p.m.- crash and burn
2011-02-25 at 1:11 p.m.- the right handbag is always in good taste
2011-02-24 at 1:15 p.m.- the canada goose makes a large, soft target
2011-02-23 at 12:41 p.m.- don't you hate it when a plan comes together?
2011-02-22 at 12:37 p.m.- you might as well laugh
2011-02-21 at 1:33 p.m.- humiliating the guy, or limp/re-ray is a very profitable play for us middle-aged white ladies
2011-02-20 at 11:08 a.m.- revenge of the donkey dudes
2011-02-19 at 1:07 p.m.- donkey hog, or why do the losers always be hating on the winners?
2011-02-18 at 12:15 p.m.- i win twice with k of clubs, seven of clubs today, decent pots too, but don't ask me about pocket kings
2011-02-17 at 11:35 a.m.- four free nights
2011-02-16 at 12:43 p.m.- mission creep
2011-02-15 at 9:34 a.m.- pretty pink pomegranate
2011-02-14 at 9:12 a.m.- little projects
2011-02-13 at 9:37 a.m.- a big year for the butterbutts
2011-02-12 at 10:15 a.m.- twenty years ago today
2011-02-11 at 10:01 a.m.- still in a half-huff about that limestone comment...
2011-02-10 at 10:03 a.m.- i cut my first botswanas...stay tuned
2011-02-09 at 10:44 a.m.- in search of peachfronts: on time but over budget
2011-02-08 at 10:04 a.m.- bloodstone, bloody bloodstone
2011-02-07 at 10:36 a.m.- page 21 of the online mineral museum: green and gorgeous -- chrysoprase, green moss agate, aventurine, chrysocolla
2011-02-06 at 1:07 p.m.- why induce a bluff if you don't plan to call it? tee hee
2011-02-05 at 10:10 a.m.- exit thirteen
2011-02-04 at 9:31 a.m.- blue agate de-lite
2011-02-03 at 10:43 a.m.- and so the year of the rabbit begins
2011-02-02 at 9:59 a.m.- rhodonite, montana blue, and friends
2011-02-01 at 10:59 a.m.- why is that disturbed parrot checking out my shorts?
2011-01-31 at 9:15 a.m.- i hear the white-throated sparrow singing
2011-01-30 at 10:27 a.m.- gator gris-gris meets its match
2011-01-29 at 9:00 a.m.- ten five, good buddy
2011-01-28 at 10:26 a.m.- an egg in january
2011-01-27 at 10:07 a.m.- blue, blue, the world is blue lace!
2011-01-26 at 10:18 a.m.- blue, blue, the world is blue
2011-01-25 at 1:00 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 10: the rug-pull
2011-01-23 at 12:50 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 9: making way more with bluffs than with sets
2011-01-22 at 12:10 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 8: five dooey laughs at your pocket jacks
2011-01-21 at 11:48 a.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 7: stingray
2011-01-20 at 1:31 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 6: sometimes you catch the rabbit, sometimes the rabbit catches you
2011-01-19 at 12:36 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 5: eight high wins again
2011-01-18 at 11:56 a.m.- page 20 of my online mineral museum: new age, atomic age -- canvansite, apophyllite, trinitite
2011-01-17 at 1:08 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 4: i catch the rabbit
2011-01-16 at 12:31 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 3: nit-mice on parade
2011-01-15 at 11:49 a.m.- page 19 of my online mineral museum: part 2 of the oddities, now we're getting strange
2011-01-14 at 1:17 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 2: you woodchucks stop chucking my wood
2011-01-13 at 12:13 p.m.- vegas jan 2011 trip report part 1: a small tumbled stone takes vegas
2011-01-12 at 11:11 a.m.- page 18 of the online mineral museum: oddities part 1, little bojis and a concretion
2011-01-11 at 11:05 a.m.- snowcopalypse now
2011-01-10 at 6:23 p.m.- page 17 of my online mineral museum: a humor page of inexpensive stone carvings
2011-01-09 at 10:36 a.m.- socks, socks, everywhere is socks
2011-01-08 at 10:06 a.m.- of ulexite and the general pathetic-ness, if pathetic-ness be a word, of ATL
2011-01-07 at 11:02 a.m.- "i made up my mind," he said. "i'm cancelling the rest of my life to do this."
2011-01-06 at 9:31 a.m.- black plastic crocodile with zippers
2011-01-05 at 9:15 a.m.- page 16 of my online mineral museum: dugway represents!
2011-01-04 at 4:15 p.m.- mexican crazy lace -- a re-cut that didn't quite get there
2011-01-03 at 6:33 p.m.- of money and moss agate
2011-01-02 at 3:11 p.m.- who cloned my bolivian mercedes?
2011-01-01 at 11:22 a.m.- viva la france
2010-12-31 at 12:54 p.m.- 2011 new year's resolutions
2010-12-30 at 1:49 p.m.- hooded merganser joins my state list
2010-12-30 at 9:47 a.m.- page 15 of the online mineral museum: fun with fluorite
2010-12-29 at 3:36 p.m.- bald eagles on the downlow
2010-12-28 at 1:41 p.m.- 2010 resolutions review: the end of the decade cometh
2010-12-27 at 6:03 p.m.- page 14 of my online mineral museum: rhodochrosite crystals of the world
2010-12-27 at 10:54 a.m.- page 13 of my online mineral museum: i find more amethyst
2010-12-26 at 1:36 p.m.- my pink and orange bolivia bag becomes a canvas
2010-12-25 at 5:04 p.m.- christmas 2010: in the dark
2010-12-24 at 7:29 p.m.- my trip to atlantis
2010-12-24 at 9:00 a.m.- page twelve of my online mineral museum: amethyst from thunder bay, ontario
2010-12-22 at 7:07 p.m.- page eleven of my online mineral museum: two stones for the writer
2010-12-21 at 7:17 p.m.- page ten of my online mineral museum: mississippi petrified wood, breaking woodpecker beaks everywhere for 30 million years
2010-12-21 at 10:11 a.m.- a total eclipse in orange
2010-12-20 at 10:54 a.m.- a couple of sad news notes
2010-12-19 at 3:20 p.m.- page nine: crystal and glass
2010-12-19 at 10:20 a.m.- game day (and its discontents)
2010-12-18 at 11:10 a.m.- page 8 of my mineral museum: my amethyst quartz crystal clusters -- now you're talkin'
2010-12-18 at 9:56 a.m.- sick and may die but not dead yet?
2010-12-17 at 10:11 a.m.- you read it here first, let's hope it doesn't take 27 years to haul jindal off to the pen like it did eddie price, where's the fbi when you need 'em?
2010-12-16 at 9:41 a.m.- xmas loot
2010-12-14 at 7:33 p.m.- pyrite: "fool's gold" but it's often found with real gold, so who's really the fool?
2010-12-14 at 10:24 a.m.- malachite from zaire
2010-12-13 at 9:03 a.m.- i laugh at your pitiful attempts to play poker
2010-12-12 at 10:07 a.m.- they'll drive you to drinking but at high noon?
2010-12-11 at 9:46 a.m.- silly bicker of the day--old dude says, why do the losers be hating on the winners, smelly loser screams, you think i got hate in my heart? you really think i got hate in my heart? um, that would be a yes
2010-12-10 at 10:02 a.m.- one more card
2010-12-09 at 9:46 a.m.- splat
2010-12-08 at 10:39 a.m.- this is the week that was of wallow
2010-12-07 at 10:14 a.m.- ice cream
2010-12-06 at 10:13 a.m.- 101 chapters, not on this website, bunky
2010-12-05 at 10:47 a.m.- sicker
2010-12-04 at 11:58 a.m.- sick and may die redux
2010-12-03 at 11:51 a.m.- effort
2010-12-01 at 8:00 p.m.- wheels up, wheels down
2010-11-30 at 9:32 p.m.- lift a glass to the newest 2/5 nl champ, if you can stand the very idea of a 2/5 nl champ
2010-11-30 at 10:47 a.m.- days like this
2010-11-28 at 7:22 p.m.- i think a very conventional play with ak but the victim is grumbling
2010-11-27 at 7:03 p.m.- jacks win a four-way bloated pot unimproved, that's skill, i'm telling ya
2010-11-27 at 12:55 a.m.- i have kings when it's aces versus kings and i win, i have aces when it's aces versus kings and i win, yay, me, some call it luck but it's totally skill, totally
2010-11-26 at 12:27 p.m.- all-in with pocket aces for 1,350, the other guy has black aces, wheeeee
2010-11-24 at 7:50 p.m.- they fold when i bluff and call when i'm strong, a good day
2010-11-24 at 10:30 a.m.- pomegranate juice
2010-11-23 at 11:59 a.m.- protect your hand redux: the full story
2010-11-22 at 11:10 p.m.- poker hint of the day: if you don't intend to fold, don't throw your cards so hard they fly past the shufflemaster, c'mon, dude, it's a fold
2010-11-22 at 1:46 a.m.- sore winner, sore loser
2010-11-21 at 12:53 a.m.- some moves not so smooth
2010-11-20 at 2:04 a.m.- i just love pushing pocket kings off a hand, don't you?
2010-11-19 at 11:03 a.m.- aces versus queens, seven high versus the world
2010-11-17 at 7:23 p.m.- no peanuts, has the faa finally succeeded in taking away delta's peanuts?
2010-11-16 at 6:13 p.m.- though i fear most of us here have always pronounced it "susan"
2010-11-15 at 6:48 p.m.- page five of my mineral museum: candy pink, yummy for the tummy rhodochrosite
2010-11-15 at 6:43 p.m.- a guide to my gem and mineral museum
2010-11-15 at 9:28 a.m.- not dino bone
2010-11-14 at 10:11 a.m.- yellow-bellied sapsucker, redtail hawk, rhinestone owl
2010-11-13 at 8:04 a.m.- millennium manor
2010-11-12 at 8:35 a.m.- crossville, tennessee: the minister's tree house
2010-11-11 at 3:57 p.m.- huntsville, alabama: u.s. space and rocket center
2010-11-10 at 7:56 p.m.- my life list with madagascar serpent-eagle, can your life list do that?
2010-11-10 at 3:10 p.m.- cullman, alabama: the ave maria grotto, because why NOT built a fake cave out of shells in honor of mary?
2010-11-10 at 8:12 a.m.- it's that time of year again, yeppers, satsumas gone wild, vodka wild
2010-11-09 at 8:08 a.m.- part two: northern alabama/southeastern tennessee fall color and creative weirdness road trip
2010-11-08 at 4:12 p.m.- part 1: northern alabama/southeastern tennessee fall color and weird buildings road trip
2010-11-08 at 10:35 a.m.- my yard list
2010-11-08 at 10:29 a.m.- my louisiana life list
2010-11-07 at 6:11 p.m.- bluebirds snug as a bug in a rug
2010-11-06 at 8:27 a.m.- too many birthdays!
2010-11-04 at 7:08 p.m.- roman architecture
2010-11-03 at 7:52 p.m.- stuffed squash
2010-11-02 at 5:24 p.m.- golden-crowned, orange-crowned
2010-11-01 at 7:23 p.m.- fun factoid: supposedly the motto of the huntsville rock club is, "we'll go to the moon for a rock!"
The most recent adventures
October 2010--more vegas and northern alabama
September 2010-mostly minerals
August 2010--sydney, australia and the blue mountains
July 2010--more vegas, since i'm living there like one-third of the time now
June 2010--vegas and biloxi
May 2010-- british columbia, northern washington, new orleans donkey fest 2010, and back to vegas
April 2010-vegas and grand isle
March 2010-recovery
February 2010-hell done froze, or, the saints have won superbowl 42
January 2010-biloxi, more vegas
December 2009--vegas in december in the rain in a recession, can you guys stop whining about the $10 million you lost already?
November 2009-tree swallow tornado
October 2009--the great bolivian bird of prey adventure
September 2009-rocky mountain high or something like it
August 2009-we're all in the movies now
July 2009-- vegas, forgot to leave any money there for the rest of you edition
June 2009--montreal and quebec city
May 2009--vegas, the lagtard edition
April 2009--istanbul and cappadocia
March 2009-vegas and cappadocia, turkey
February 2009-- more vegas and san francisco
January 2009--vegas and san francisco
December 2008--snow days
November 2008-costa rica -- the extreme birding version
October 2008--northern england trip report
September 2008--gustav, ike, northern england
August 2008--vegas, gustav, shoe shopping
July 2008--tunica and vegas
June 2008--coastal maine with a little new brunswick
May 2008--grand canyon avec condors
April 2008--two more vegas trips
March 2008--marburg, frankfurt, vegas
February 2008--forever vegas
January 2008--western caribbean cruise with jabiru
December 2007--madagascar with bonus johannesburg, south africa
November 2007--off to madagascar in business class
October 2007--hiking in big bend
September 2007--driving in circles through humberto
August 2007--vegas and alaska 1975 trip
July 2007--driving in circles between scottsdale and vegas
June 2007--east los angeles
May 2007--point pelee and the quest for warblers
April 2007--babylon
March 2007--london and atlantic city
February 2007--vegas yet another time again
January 2007--fabulous waikiki
December 2006--portugal and road-trippin' with the birdies
November 2006--
big bend
October 2006--puerto rico
September 2006 -- butterfly fest, biloxi, and gunfire
August 2006--haunted
July 2006--the summer after the catastrophe
June 2006--alberta
May 2006-the photo file project with a lotta pet bird pix
April 2006--the photo file project continued
March 2006--mardi gras mileage run, veracruz 98, arizona 83 and 99, and the photo file project
February 2006-superbowl in vegas and flashback to 1999 arizona birding tour
January 2006--german castles in the snow
December 2005--costa rica, vegas, christmas
November 2005--katrina in new orleans east and return of audubon zoo
October 2005--katrina in 9th ward and venice, wilma in atlantic city
September 2005--refugees
August 2005--katrina
July 2005--vegas again
June 2005--kyoto trip report and more vegas
May 2005--reno and kyoto
April 2005--panama hawk migration and vegas
March 2005 -- munich
February 2005 --paris!
January 2005 -- trips planned and unplanned
December 2004 -- ice, snow, meteor, comet
November 2004 -- bosque del apache festival of the cranes
October 2004 -- two new yard birds in one day
September 2004 -- atlantic city and ivan
August 2004 -- more wood storks and a jellyfish in gulfport
July 2004 -- in search of wood storks
June 2004 -- england and knoxville
May 2004 -- copulating kites, mirage/treasure island blow-out flashback
April 2004 -- wedding bells, arkansas and idaho trip reports
March 2004 -- roseate spoonbills, great horned owls, and the night of six moons and six planets
February 2004 -- my Kenya diary
January 2004 -- on safari
Christmas 2003 -- lots of bird lists
November 2003 -- mystery of the missing myrtles
October 2003 -- dental tourism and san diego fire disaster
September 2003 -- hummingbird and butterfly fests
August 2003 -- Disaster recovery, drainage, flashbacks to our first vacation, River of Raptors, and Texas hawk migration
July 2003 -- Tropical Storm Bill crushes our house and more disasters
June 2003 -- Courtney and Ronnie's breeding attempt and Gamboa Rainforest Resort in Panama
May 2003 -- Spring Kites and a Van from Diaryland
April 2003 -- Grand Isle Fall-out and Louisiana Bird Fest
March 2003 -- The colors of spring. lots of old photos, a partial index
February 2003 -- Columbia, Slashdotted, flashbacks to Trinidad and Folsom Butterfly Fest
January 2003 -- the metamorphosis of prime intellect
December 2002 -- a great Christmas season
November 2002 --Breaux Bridge and Lake Martin get-away
October 2002 -- Vegas and my first Calliope
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