Dying of the light

Oct. 4th, 2025 07:11 am
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Air temperature 46 F, wind near calm, partly cloudy. Gull flock absent -- whatever was hatching out or metamorphising into their breakfast seems to have ceased. Such is the circle of life. Should be able to get a bike ride in.

Roses still blooming

Oct. 3rd, 2025 10:50 am
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Bees are having a fine old time working the asters, both in our yard and elsewhere. Keeping an eye out for unauthorized construction around the eaves -- no wasp nests allowed. Rites of Autumn aren't as exciting as Rites of Spring.

Plains of Megiddo

Oct. 3rd, 2025 07:01 am
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Air temperature 37 F, wind near calm, the sun also rises. Trash out, fulfilling half of my obligations to society for the day. The other half will be to bring the empty bin back to the garage if and when the truck collects the contents. May try for a bike ride later if we warm up.

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Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:24 pm
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Waxing gibbous moon.

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Oct. 2nd, 2025 05:42 pm
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That attack in England reminds us (if we are willing to see) that murderous antisemitism still simmers just below the surface of many "enlightened" societies.

Exercised futility

Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:58 pm
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Filled out the forms to claim a pittance from that AI copyright lawsuit settlement, for the four novels of mine that show up in their search. I don't know how many claimants will sign on, but my expectations are that the pot will be split into portions small enough that they won't pay for the postage . . .

Snowbird watch begins

Oct. 2nd, 2025 11:31 am
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We've seen a couple of turkey vultures cruising in slow spirals, heading south-ish. They don't hang around here except in migration, spring and fall. And I'll check on houses on my walk route that I know are summer residents. Many of them time their arrivals and exits according to tax law, as Florida treats some kinds of income differently than Maine does.

Muddling along

Oct. 2nd, 2025 06:57 am
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Air temperature 34 F, wind near calm, clear sky. Frost silvering the grass as the sun touches just the top of the trees. No gulls at the moment. Maybe their funding is frozen?

Sic semper tyrannis

Oct. 1st, 2025 06:55 am
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Air temperature 39 F, wind north about 1 mph, clear sky. Frost advisory for tonight. Again. I'll warn our rose bush. Foraging morning, walk afternoon.

Tuesday goose/duck report

Sep. 30th, 2025 12:48 pm
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Mixed flock of maybe four dozen out at the cemetery this morning. Guess they found out that segregation is now illegal. Only the geese seemed to be grazing out among the graves, while both geese and ducks were hanging out around the pond.

One roadkill porcupine on the other side of the road at about mile five on my route, smear of green guck across the asphalt at about mile nine. The latter was probably porcupine stomach contents left when the corpse went elsewhere. Both locations are known porcupine death zones.

Asters blooming in profusion along with the other usuals. Most of the red maples have dropped their leaves in the bog while the upland trees have barely started to turn. Touch of yellow on some of the tamaracks.

Got out on the bike when the temperature reached 60 F, up to the country club and over to the road through the bog and home. Not a lot of wind, comfortable biking weather. Did not die.

15.33 miles, 1:28:43

The social contract

Sep. 30th, 2025 07:36 am
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The Emperor is required to provide enough bread and circuses to keep the masses from open rebellion. It's right there in the rules.

Abomination of desolation

Sep. 30th, 2025 06:52 am
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Air temperature 50 F, wind near calm, sunny if the sun ever bothers to rise. A few gulls patrol the far side of the park, but whatever draws them seems to be on the wane. Plan to snatch a bike ride from the jaws of advancing winter once the world warms up a bit. Any one of those may be the last of the year . . .

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Sep. 29th, 2025 04:58 pm
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

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Sep. 29th, 2025 03:16 pm
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Some topics are poisonous to touch. This ranges from a poison-ivy itch to blue-ringed octopus level of poisonous.

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Sep. 29th, 2025 11:32 am
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Ash trees continue to amuse. Some are bare, some defy the season and remain green. I have no idea how much of this difference is genetic and how much environmental.

Oopsie observed

Sep. 29th, 2025 10:32 am
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House on my walk route had the driveway repaved a few weeks back. Today's saunter around the neighborhood found a crew tearing up that driveway, prior to repaving. Did not interrogate said crew further.

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Sep. 29th, 2025 07:50 am
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Hark, hark! the dogs do bark,
Beggars are coming to town.
Some in rags, some in jags,
And some in velvet gowns.

Götterdämmerung

Sep. 29th, 2025 07:00 am
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Air temperature 48 F, wind southwest 4 mph, sunny. A few gulls across the park, also a couple of crows. No coordinated advance apparent. Ambitions limited to a walk, maybe to include meet-up with a cat friend.

Sunday floral/avian report

Sep. 28th, 2025 11:50 am
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Masses of the brilliant purple asters by the roadside, mixed again with the chicory and goldenrod. More milkweed pods starting to split open. A few of the highland trees turning, red and orange and yellow.

Flock of about 10 turkeys by the roadside, about 4 miles into my route. No threat postures, at least one tom. Airport metal birds limited to a couple of commercial takeoffs and the Army whirlybirds. No roadkill beyond a couple of small patches of flattened brown feathers.

Got out on the bike, temperature about 62 F when I headed out and 75 F now, wind gusting over 15 mph but at my back on the way home. Did not die.

15.69 miles, 1:30:04

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