Friday, October 18

Amazing how time flies. Molly turned 18 today. Who da thunk it possible?

Baby Moo.

 Cheering on the boy’s water polo team on Wednesday. She’s the “I”.

These girls are scary.

But they do clean up. (Prom 2013)

Thanks for 18 fun years Moo.

Lately we’ve been really busy between work, teaching, and attending to other affairs. Very little time for birding and when we have gotten out we haven’t found many new species. The only new one since last time I wrote is gray-cheeked thrush. We missed the little devils during the spring migration so I was rather happy to see them this week.

At least Congressional Republicans have supplied some cheap and easy entertainment. Kind of fun watching them dabble in an assisted suicide. I guess their idea of economic development consists of providing comedians and pundits with enough material to stay employed for the next couple years.  

Speaking of dead meat, we had a pleasant surprise courtesy of Mertz meats. Mertz is a local little meat shop. Great meats and all kinds of fun stuff like alligator sausage, bison, elk, etc….. Some other non-meat goodies too, mostly local or Michigan based stuff. But best of all, imported directly from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, they carry scrapple. So life just got a little better here. The only down side is that it is packaged, not in the big blocks you get at a butcher. Which means they have to put the ingredients on the package. The mystery of some things are just better left to the imagination. Like why the sky is blue or what’s in scrapple. Some things you just don’t want to know.