Jun. 8th, 2005

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A male cardinal came by to try and figure out* the tube sunflower feeder this morning. A _bald_ male cardinal. No crest, no feathers on the head at all. Black skin.

I don't know if this is a regular molt, or whether he's hen-pecked, or has mange, or what. Definitely pitiful, like a squirrel trying to cuss without a tail.

In other news, the buttercups are blooming in the lawn again, taking over from those white violets I mentioned earlier. Now I can swing into my annual rendition of perverted Gilbert and Sullivan: "So I mowed little Buttercup, dear little Buttercup...."

That assumes that the mower works the next time I try it.

*For some reason, cardinals can't seem to bend right or perch right for the tube feeders. Grackles and blue jays can contort themselves enough to get some seeds, even though they're larger.
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and hawkweed, oh my!

Blooming season has swung into . . . full bloom, I guess. Portions of the bike ride seemed almost gaudy.

Decided I'd better ride today, even though that's two days straight. Next chance will be next week, it appears....

Wife asked for (and received) an additional plot thickener in GHOST POINT, tied to the submarine communications base I've grafted onto the fictional universe of Sunrise County, Maine. Which, for certain of you readers out there, has a certain congruence with the actual Navy transmitter site in Cutler....

(Hi, Ed!)

15.29 miles, 1:04:50
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An old Maine sailor's saying.

I depart in the wee hours for the drive/sail/drive which will, in the normal process of things, deposit me on Barnstead's doorstep sometime tomorrow afternoon. We shall see. Then on Friday, I get to impersonate an Author for his SF course at Dalhousie.

If you don't hear from me in a week or so, point the RCMP at that damned cat.

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