I went for a short hike in the desert this morning with my friend Les. Hiking along a wash, we saw an old mine shaft up on the hill and decided to check it out. We climbed up to it, and it looked like it went back in for a ways, at a slight downward […]
Entries from September 2011
Trapped by a snake
September 22nd, 2011 · 7 Comments
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Back East Backpacking
September 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Next week Dale, Karen and I are going backpacking in the east somewhere, probably western Pennsylvania. We should be gone 4 days/3 nights. This will be my first experience backpacking back in the east, but I understand it is nothing but non-stop rain, mud, chiggers and leeches. I’ll humor my back-east relatives by pretending to […]
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Groggy Puppy
September 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments
I’ve posted before about Apollo having occasional seizures. These are full-blown grand mal seizures, lasting a minute or so, then taking 5 – 10 minutes to fully recover. The vet diagnosed epilepsy, not uncommon for huskies. He averaged maybe one seizure every two or three months, and the vet said as long as they don’t […]
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Cookie Man
September 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Devon is part of a big ad campaign for “Peacock Cookies” in Taiwan right now. Here’s his face on the side of a bus: And here’s an ad. This first shows a Flash application. You can click the various links at the bottom (all in Chinese) and see a couple of scenes showing Devon, but […]
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