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Why I'm dubious about keeping chickens

I reckon it’s about time to do a straight-up pandering post for Emma Dog’s innumerable fans (do I know how to draw eyes to the site, or what?)

So after I delivered the ever-problematic contracts for The Dinosaur Lords to UPS to go back to Tor, we hit the ditch that runs from behind Lee Acres [...]

Hummingbirds know no fear

So this evening a little before 7 I was walking Emma Dog back south along the ditch east of the Rio Grande Nature Center field. Sitting in splendid isolation on a limb maybe 25 feet up I saw a Cooper’s hawk.

One of these guys.

I stood and admired it for a while as Emma industriously [...]

Victor’s Law of Pets

Dogs believe they exist to serve us.

Cats believe we exist to serve them.

Ferrets know we exist to amuse them.

(Note: I realized these things long ago. For some reason they came back to me a few minutes ago when my cat TJ was following me around, unaccountably making Wookiee noises.)

Update: And a last minute Happy [...]