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June 17, 2010

Administrator — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:02:22 +0000

The chipmunk that I’ve been feeding for a couple of years was displeased today to see that I had given some food to another chipmunk, even though that other chipmunk is one of the offspring she gave birth to earlier in the spring. My old friend chased that other chipmunk away.

June 11, 2010

Administrator — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:58:43 +0000

May 22, 2010

Administrator — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:19:57 +0000

My chipmunk neighbor appears to be living on her own again. She must have decided that the three children were old enough to go live on their own. One of them tried to come back yesterday to eat some of the sunflower seeds etc. that I had put out, but the mother chased him or her away after a brief rumble.

May 18, 2010

Administrator — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:17:27 +0000

I was at the gym about half an hour ago, and I saw on the television that there was some story about the wife of Robert Kennedy Jr., but I didn’t see what it was and the audio was turned off. Knowing nothing about her as an individual other than the fact that she was the wife of a Kennedy, my guesses were (1) that she was arrested for drunk driving, and a less likely guess (2) that she had filed for divorce, and an even less likely guess (3) that she had been arrested for possession of controlled substances. I Googled news about “Robert Kennedy” just now, and guess number one was correct.

Report at nypost.com

May 14, 2010

Administrator — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:34:35 +0000

I drove out to Brimfield today to go to the antiques show. I’d never been there before. The newspaper reports make it sound exquisite, but the merchandise really runs the gamut from the junky to the exquisite, with much of the stuff closer to the junky than to the exquisite. Lots of dealers from all over the U.S. have booths there, most of them under awnings or tents. There are also a number of little booths where one can buy a lunch. For most of the sections of the fair, admission is free. There was one area with somewhat better booths for which the admission was five dollars. I entered that area around two o’clock and at that point I didn’t notice anybody interested in collecting money for admission. If somebody had asked me to pay, I would have, but since nobody asked I didn’t go looking to pay. I spent about two and a half hours at the fair, and then my attention began to wane. I had parked at a three-dollar lot, at St. Christopher’s Catholic church, that wasn’t very far from the fair. Closer lots would have cost $5 or $7. I didn’t buy anything, other than a tuna melt and a cranberry juice, but some of the small Oriental rugs were tempting.

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Today the three little chipmunks are looking out of their hole in the ground. Sometimes they will venture as far as two feet from the hole and then run back. Yesterday only one was venturing away from the hole. According to what I’ve read online, within the next two weeks the mother will either kick them out of her burrow or will move into a new burrow herself. I suspect she’ll kick them out, since she likes sitting on the nearby woodpile to survey the little valley at the back of my yard. Also I give her sunflower seeds, cracked corn, and peanuts every now and then, on the ground to the right of the woodpile, often two or three times a day.

May 12, 2010

Administrator — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:39:58 +0000

The chipmunk that lives in my back yard has three little chipmunks.

May 11, 2010

Administrator — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:04:50 +0000

“Residents [of Strongsville, Ohio] called police because they were trapped in their home by a temperamental squirrel.”–cleveland.com

April 21, 2010

Administrator — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:58:13 +0000

Apparently Dan doesn’t have a truck, but does have a bike.

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The “Cameron girls”:

April 12, 2010

Administrator — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:08:54 +0000

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Connecticut bishops fight sex abuse bill

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John Tesh & Oprah?

April 10, 2010

Administrator — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:51:05 +0000

Joyce DiDonato writes at some length on her blog about her “poor ankle.” She wants people to buy the DVD of Il Barbiere di Sivigllia that features her as Rosina in a wheel chair. But she doesn’t want anybody to ask her about her ankle. Isn’t that like saying, “I own the dead elephant in the middle of the rug. It is mine. I can talk about it, because I own the topic. Others should pretend not to see it, except to the extent they hear me talk about it. By the way, buy the DVD of me and the dead elephant.”

(She also suggests that readers of her blog pour themselves a glass of wine, and then a second glass.)

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