I look forward to more.

attached to the rails and slid back for easier viewing.

They should be in the aisle with the leather gloves. They're cheap, held on with velcro, and you can move around easily without scooting a pad. I even use them for weeding, although we do have foam pads as well because they're better in the summer. The knee pads can get hot and aren't comfortable when you're wearing shorts. I bought a couple dozen pool float boards from the dollar store several years ago. Most of them are garden pads now.

With the knee pads you just move yourself. You can still keep your grip and focus. Frankly, they're not comfortable even when you're wearing Dickies, but they're still easier than a board.

I will be using a tripod, so the rig will be close to where I want to be.

I've got three frickin tripods and can't find a single mount for any of them. They didn't just evaporate. The local camera store (yes, we still have one) doesn't even carry them! AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!

low aspect photos. That's what I will use during macro shots.

It appears to be too windy for outdoor macro shots, I will see if the wind dies after 4 PM.

Just a joke.

We brought him fresh greens from the garden whenever possible. He was such a cuddle.

They were all America Whites. I wanted some Dutch, but dad was bankrolling it.

We should be eating more rabbit and less beef. Rabbits are more efficient meat producers.

Pork's somewhere in the middle. I'm not sure about rabbit, but meat is always a net protein loss. We grew a lot of his food. They still need a hay/alfalfa based diet for the fiber. Not many people know this, but they have a two-pass digestive system. The first pass breaks down the fiber and the second pass (yes, they eat their poop) allows them to take in the nutrients.

I've never before heard of lightening striking a hutch, but that's really sad. They have such distinct personalities and are wonderful pets. I wouldn't eat one, well, I don't eat meat anyway, but I'd love to have another as a pet.

porch. You'd see them cross the street, first the rabbit, then the Raccoon, and behind them, the cat.

They were "spooned" into me in order and all sleeping snuggled up together. I just love animals of all kinds.

would run away.

You can nail them half-way up the drapes from across the room. After a while, you don't even need to put water in it - just pump it a few times and they run.

had put down a paper to catch the glitter that didn't stick. The cat saw it and the rest was pure comedy. He'd paw it and the rest would jump. He'd try to catch that, causing more to jump.

One of my kittens is a tiny little thing. Her littermate brother is freakin' huge. Her new source of fun is throwing a piece of food on the floor, batting it around, and then pouncing on it and brutally torturing to death while she eats it. It's hilarious. He, on the other hand, lies down (sometimes sideways) and eats out of the bowl. Despite being siblings, they are completely opposite in every way except being sweet.

a good home. When all the kittens were gone, our cat adopted us. After she got fixed, she grew white hair where she was shaved for the IV. It took her a long time to forgive us for the snip snip, but she did. Jeanie, our cat, lived to be 22 years old.

Chickens. If the lightning had hit the chicken coop, we would have had a big mess. We had several hundred laying hens.

I wanted to bury him out by the nest he was born in but it was at the base of a large oak and there's no way to dig around those roots. Instead we buried him out by the perennial bed and used a slab of slate to mark his grave.

Their casket was a match box lined with tissue paper. Dead fish had "burial at sea." They were flushed down the toilet.

Well, my daughter chose to have her cat cremated. She used some of his ashes in her strawberry bed and it produces many quarts each season. Dozens of them. It isn't even a large bed!

They depend on it for survival. Go figure.

In the greater scheme of things and history it makes sense, but I wonder how it came to be. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem.

They recommend burning back pampas grass.

Can they reproduce without it? A male mantis can't ejaculate until its head is bit off. How do the females know this? Inquiring minds want to know.

them survive.

Michael Pollan to get insight into the manipulative power of plants. They do what is needed to survive.

Hadn't thought about that for years.