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Owls, Marten, Partridges
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And back just a few days when the cat - exploring a pile of wood on the constantly-repaired parking lot - discovers a strange animal. Dark brown fur, long of body - a weasel, but not quite, and so I look it up. It's a marten. Cute, perhaps a bit out of the cat's league...
And there's a family of partridges - they seem to return every year, 8 this year, they fly and land on the power poles, explore the grass in the condo complex, at work too much to know if they're now regulars or were just passing through.
Tonight - last time for a week to watch the sunset, go up to Nose Hill. And as the sun sets there's an owl that prowls about my head, diving and swooping in the grass, circling above my bench, curious. The net extent of wildlife upon my return.
Back
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And finally back from the vacation and readjusting to life at work.
The vacation, thanks for asking, was terrific - whetted my appetite for all things wild and places unexplored. And there are pages - dozens - to be written up as posts - The Yukon, Alaska, and the drear murder of back-to-work. But these will come in time. For the moment I'm back.
Gone to Alaska
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The blog has been less than regular, what with all the excitement at work and all. But finally it's vacation - with the kid(s?) to Alaska.
3 Weeks prospecting for gold and diamonds.
Then I'll be back, and back to work, so the blog will probably not be updated until mid-September.
Until then, have a great summer.
Storage Wars
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In that limbo of decompression between work and vacation I take some time to catch up on my recommended television - the series "Storage Wars" - oft recommended to me by a few people at work. Which is good, in it's fashion, silly characters and some awfully staged looking scenes, still it informs one of the value of things one never would have guessed, and expands one's horizons for searching for treasures...
Favorite character is Barry (by far), who's really into it for the love of the chase, then there's the whipped Jarrod and his whipping wife Brandi, the ass Darrell followed by the complete ass Dave...
Some interesting treasures, amusing viewing, otherwise completely ridiculous and strangely addicting. Inspiring...
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