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Monthly Archives: September 2019

Extirpated, Eradicated, Extinct

We were walking down our pasture loop yesterday, and for some reason, I remembered when we first walked this path in 1999, we often saw flying squirrels that would drive the dog-of-the-day crazy. Not any more. It’s been years since we saw the last one. And ruffed grouse: We’d hear their low-frequency drumming in the […]

Posted byfredSeptember 25, 2019Posted inearthcare, education2 Comments on Extirpated, Eradicated, Extinct

On Reaching Joe Flounder

Our son-in-law is a prosperous, young, thinking Republican. He laments the mentality of his hunting and fishing buddies (Joe Flounder in our discussion) who blames current restrictions on flounder fishing on the whims of environmentalists. They are indignant over any rules that restrict their total freedom to keep everything they catch on their three-day weekend […]

Posted byfredSeptember 18, 2019Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on On Reaching Joe Flounder

A Cicadian Pox of Conidial Pustules

Yes, it does sound like a medieval incantation of doom. This is one for you from Nature’s Book of Bad Dreams. Seems we have among us a fungus that infects periodic cicadas in a most bizarre and ghoulishly effective way. So if you find said insect with its back half white, it is a flying […]

Posted byfredSeptember 10, 2019Posted ineducation, nature, Uncategorized2 Comments on A Cicadian Pox of Conidial Pustules

One-Armed Paper Hanger

So even with my good intentions to breathe life back into the blog, it’s been on life support in ICU for another week, hanging on by a thread (though not of active conversation) and waiting for an injection of adrenalin. But not because there is nothing to write about on Goose Creek. Far from it. […]

Posted byfredSeptember 9, 2019Posted inFieldNotes, The Writing Life2 Comments on One-Armed Paper Hanger

Status: UNK

That’s not exactly right. FUTURE status UNK, but when is that not the case? Just sometimes more UNK than others. And we are in one of those times, I suppose, on Goose Creek and on Planet Earth. Where do we go from here? Our time and energy of late has been centered around the (now […]

Posted byfredSeptember 3, 2019Posted inReflections, WordAndImages2 Comments on Status: UNK

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