The dovelings have come out from their eggs! And they’re not ducks. They’re doves, as they should be.
Huge doves — I thought they were born Sunday, because that was the first day I saw them, but I’m starting to think they hatched before that. Because they’re huge. Just too big to have [...]
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Hatchlings
The Ugly Dovelings
The other day I went outside to check the mail, and saw that somehow, without my having been aware of it, the dove eggs in our bathroom window ledge had hatched!
Apparently quite a while ago, as the dovelings were huge.
And not, in fact, dovelings.
They were ducklings.
Brown ducklings, with barely any yellow down left on them, [...]
Dovetailing
LR is aware that she owes her faithful readers (whoever ye may be; as only one or two of you ever comments, she knoweth not to whom the term readership extends) another post about the San Antonio vacation, but in the meantime, she would like to share a miracle that has occurred at the Burt [...]
Under the Sea
Way back in 1988, LR’s parents took her to SeaWorld the first summer it opened. She doesn’t really remember much about this trip except that it was very, very hot, her little brother Greg wasn’t with them because he was a baby, and there was a big map of the United States on the [...]
Snaaaaaaake! A snaaaaaaaaake! Ooooooooh, it’s a snaaaaaaake!
For the next few days, I shall be holed up in my house. Not that that’s anything terribly new for me, but I shall not be venturing out even to clip fresh roses.
Why?
Because there’s a naked snake afoot.
A big naked snake.
We found a four-foot long skin in the back yard, near the patio.
That’s one creature [...]