Thanksgiving in Time of Covid (You vs Government)

It should be well-known by now that every single government infectious-disease expert in the Universe has described the traditional Thanksgiving holiday as a potential "super-spreader" event.  Most governments have strongly warned citizens against visiting their relatives and sitting in their numbers around the groaning table.  Every one demands that you stay home this Thanksgiving, eating …

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Happy Bird-days!

Our yard this week has been a bird madhouse.  We have had flocks of bushtits, a rufous-sided towhee, black-capped and chestnut-backed chickadees, a Bewick's wren, red-breasted nuthatch, and juncos.  And who should put in an early appearance?  Our Townsend's Warbler!  He usually doesn't arrive until late December.  Sorry for the reflections, but the picture was …

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