Tag: wildlife
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Learn a new animal day: African wild dog edition!
Hello again, and welcome (finally) to Learn-a-new-animal-day! I promise this post will be far less ranty than my previous edition… Take a look at this animal for a moment: This is obviously a member of the canine family, no? How can you mistake it? It’s got the face, the feet, the tail… And yet one…
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Lizard Sandwich (or, Only in Hawaii)
Last night I got distracted by this and that, as I sometimes do, and I didn’t eat supper until 9:30pm or so. I wanted something easy but also a “comfort food” so I made a toasted peanut butter sandwich. My method is usually to make the sandwich and then toast it, but last night I…
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Saving Songbirds
This happened two weeks ago, but I didn’t have time to write about it then, so I will write about it now. Two Friday nights ago I was spending the afternoon with friends who dropped me off at home after having nicely let me carpool with them. I got out of the car and discovered…
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Ducky Day
Today was one of those quietly wonderful days that aren’t exciting in the sense that you find yourself thrilled at every moment, but that at the end of the day you look back and suddenly realize that you’ve had an excellent day indeed. Today I went to the zoo as usual, had fish tacos for…
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A pirate’s life for me..?
Let’s play a game… Sing along if you know it! “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong!” See it? There you go. The Black Pearl. More photos are found in my photo blog, once they’re uploaded. [update: You can find them starting here, but there aren’t…
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Spring is in the Air
And so is a whole lot of rain. It’s been pouring most of the week (usually at night), but all day today has been a deluge. Everything floods with these week-long rains and it makes getting to and from places interesting. It also makes me question my decision to not have a garage door opener.…
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A Weekend to Remember
Do you ever have one of those randomly wonderful weekends that you want to remember as long as possible? Yeah, that was my weekend. It started on Friday with the surprise filming thing (see the previous entry), and things just stayed great the rest of the time. Friday night we went to dinner at one…
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Tiny sea life
Today was a nice, quiet day that we spent (mostly) at the beach. I took some photos that will get uploaded later, but in the meantime, I wanted to show you the tiny hermit crab I found. I love how colorful he is, and that his eyes are the width of the ridges of my…
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New Year This’n’That
Happy New Year! I have a few random things to share, but nothing very philosophical, so here goes. First, 1-1-11 is fun to type! I didn’t think about it until this evening, so I guess I’m a little late on that one. But I’m hoping people call it “twenty-eleven” and not “two thousand eleven,” which…
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Monk Seal Surprise!
There is a beach up on the North Shore where you can almost always see Hawaiian green sea turtles. There are about forty (I think) that live in the area and usually one or two are up on the sand, basking. It’s an ideal place for them, and an ideal place to take out of…
Joanna Volavka 