crates | January 30, 2010
My father returned home from the hospital today! He had open heart surgery last Monday (Jan 25) which went very well. I guess they said that he could have gone home yesterday (Friday), but he said he wasn’t ready to leave yet! Four days seems like a very short stay after such major surgery, [...]
crates | January 24, 2010
Last Thursday (Jan 21) my father had some chest pain after returning from the store. It wouldn’t go away, and soon my father realized that this wasn’t the normal discomfort that he sometimes felt from the acid reflux which he sometimes has. Then he did something out of character–he asked his next door neighbor to [...]
crates | December 25, 2009
It is Christmas Eve, 11:55 pm, and I am alone at work, getting ready to go out into the frosty night. Once again I think back on past times with my family as I have many times before. I haven’t posted much lately because I have been working so many long hours, but soon [...]
crates | November 9, 2009
I was wondering why people were staring at me at the Mississippi visitor’s center last summer after I had pulled off Interstate 10. I checked my zipper, nope…wiped my nose, nope nothing there, then I realized that I was wearing two pairs of glasses, one low down on my nose and the other right above [...]
crates | October 24, 2009
When I reached the beach on my walk two Sundays ago, I saw a large black body out in the water, then a great fin protruding above the surface. At first I was confused as to what I was seeing, then everything clicked into place, and I realized that I was watching a pod of [...]
crates | October 23, 2009
I was reading the paper today, and when I got to the funny papers (comics), I found an odd thing. I kept seeing the same references to volunteerism and community service in many of the strips. Below is a summary of what I found:
Garfield: “Today I volunteered to help clean up the city park.”
The Born [...]
crates | September 1, 2009
The Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), almost hunted to near extinction in the lower forty-eight states, once again can be legally killed. This has come about after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the wolf off the endangered species list last May and will allow Idaho and Montana to reduce the wolf population down to [...]
crates | August 31, 2009
I was recently watching this TV program on black holes. As usual when I contemplate such things, I became slightly depressed.
When a star which is about three times or more the mass of our sun reaches the end of its life, it collapses and in the process blows out a great mass of matter and [...]
crates | July 12, 2009
I am reading The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers for the second time and have been struck again by just how much I like and admire his novels. I have read and re-read his books since discovering them years ago, and they never fail to entertain and enthrall me.
Every time that I [...]
crates | July 1, 2009
Here’s some birds I saw in Panama. The page and plate numbers refer to the Birds of Panama.
Common Name
Scientific Name
Panama Area (P=Panama City; T=Bocas;B=Boquete
Pl.no.
Page no.
Egret, Great
Casmerodius albus
P, T
2
69
Egret, Cattle
Bubulcus i. ibis
P, T
2
71
Heron, Great Blue
Ardea h. herodias
P, T
2
68
Ibis, White
Eudocimus albus
P
2
74
Frigatebird, Magnificient
Fregata magnificens
P, B
4
65
Pelican, Brown
Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis
P,T
4
63
Booby, Brown
Sula leugaster estesiaca
T
4
62
Sandpiper, Spotted
Actitus macularia
T
5
135
Hawk, Common Black
Buteogallus a. anthracinus
T
8
95
Pigeon, Pale-vented
Columba [...]
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