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Dances with hummingbirds

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Our homemade hummingbird feeders attach at approximately waist level to the two-by-four railing that runs around our second story porch.  This puts the hummers down with us when they stop by for refreshers between bouts of very small game hunting.  Once they arrive mid-April or so, we wind into the lives of these brilliant dynamos [...]

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Horse Opera

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

The neighbors that own the acreage surrounding our lot are horse enthusiasts.  Currently, they keep a small herd made up of a ginger palomino mare, a pale dun mare (don’t know what the coloration’s called but a black stripe runs down her spine), a white gelding, a palomino gelding, and a yellow dun stallion. 
Less than [...]

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