Our beautiful spring and early summer weather was idyllic. Rose and I had dinner on the deck every evening, and we were often outside reading until ten or eleven PM. But as things got dryer and temperatures pushed into the low 80s each day, we grew concerned. Then Zeus sent thunderbolts from the sky and set Beringia on fire.
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Half-Tail and the Sweet Boys
The midnight wildlife was out in force last night. A light rain and cool weather was welcomed by all. Only one of the northern flying squirrels came in to the feeder — Half-Tail, the more beat-up-looking one. Even alone, though, she (and I’m guessing on sex here) did some acrobatics, climbing high up the side of the house and flying out to Bird Tree before returning and sitting on the bird feeder by the window.
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There are Strange Things Done ‘Neath the Midnight Sun…
…by squirrels and thrushes having their fun.
So, a fish lands in a parking lot…
…and this is a joke whose punchline has yet to cross my threshold. In an incredible ongoing saga, yet another animal engages in one-upmanship in Fairbanks and STEALS THE SHOW!
So, some ducklings walk into a hardware store…
…and it’s going to be a lot harder to come up with a good punch line for that one. But, believe it or not, in an apparent game of one-upmanship, a group of ducklings did indeed follow a recent beaver’s example and wandered into Alaska Industrial Hardware. They, too, made it into the newspaper. How will our town handle so much action?
Excuse me, we’re interested in the fluid that fills these things…(photo from the Daily News Miner)