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Cantaloupe-Loving Critters
Meet our Melon Menagerie

Photo: Gourds
No, these are not cantaloupes, but let's pretend.

A melon is a terrible thing to waste.

Published Saturday, 23 August 2025, 6:00
Categorized as Food & Drink, Uncategorized, Wildlife - Mammals Tagged cantaloupe, deer, fox, raccoon

Squirrel Insanity and Goose Goofiness
A tale of two species: it was the zaniest of times; it was the most vexing of times

Photo: a gaggle of Canada geese in a field in Texas

Some animals are silly and beg to be photographed; others are irksome and beg to be shot.

Published Tuesday, 19 August 2025, 12:54
Categorized as Plant Life, Wildlife - Birds, Wildlife - Mammals Tagged Canadian geese, meerkets, pecan trees, squirrels

A Screech Within Reach
A juvenile screech owl has decided to make itself at home on our front porch.

Photo: Closeup of the face of an Eastern screech owl

I went to a lot of trouble to hang a perfectly nice owl box on a tree, when all we really had to do was have a front porch.

Published Monday, 11 August 2025, 20:29
Categorized as Uncategorized, Wildlife - Birds Tagged owl, screech owl

Fire Ant Flickers (#12)

Photo of a whitetail fawn running after its mother

Words fail me in summarizing the contents of this post. But there are pictures! And music!

Published Wednesday, 6 August 2025, 11:03
Categorized as Fire Ant Flickers, History, Horseshoe Bay, Kitchen Sink..., Music Tagged Aeschylus, coins, Eularian Circles, lyrics, Shamrock, Venn

Favorite Posts: A Baker’s Dozen
A sampling of posts to help you decide if you're in the right place

Photo: Small mossy waterfall in Horseshoe Creek (TX)

This is primarily written for the benefit of new (or newish) subscribers to help them decide if they’ve lost their minds by subscribing.

Published Sunday, 3 August 2025, 15:47
Categorized as Navel Gazing, Uncategorized Tagged favorite posts

On the road, again, to Fredericksburg
Good country music and giant cinnamon rolls...what more could one want?

Collage of country music bands in Fredericksburg and Luckenbach

We spent a weekend in Fredericksburg and crammed a lot into the time (and our stomachs).

Published Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 9:25
Categorized as Dancing - Country, Food & Drink, Music, Travel, Uncategorized Tagged Chuck Wimer, EWI, Fredericksburg, Hill & Vine, Hondo's, Randy Garcia, Scott Crofts

A Humble Memorial to Texas Flood Victims

Photo - Sunset over the lake

When words fail me, I turn to music. Here are three songs that provide me with some peace. I hope you find them helpful as well.

Published Thursday, 10 July 2025, 15:51
Categorized as Faith, Texas Hill Country Tagged 2025 flood

Fishing Spiders
Pecan Creek always provides some interesting nature scenes after a heavy rainfall.

Photo: Six-spotted fishing spider and its wake in the water

Fishing spiders. What’ll they think of next…wakeboarding centipedes?

Published Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 12:09
Categorized as Wildlife - Birds, Wildlife - Invertebrates Tagged fishing spiders, heron, spiders

Scrollytelling: Another AI Coding Experiment
My second attempt at coding with ChatGPT was more challenging than the first.

AI-generated image of computer coder (pixel art style)

ChatGPT makes a really good unpaid coding intern, as long as you know how to manage it.

Published Monday, 7 July 2025, 6:00
Categorized as AI Tagged AI, ChatGPT, coding, scrollytelling

Happy Birthday, America!
Phoning it in on a rainy Independence Day

Illustration: American flag waving against a colorful sky

A short tribute to two things I like: America and a bike ride.

Published Friday, 4 July 2025, 10:21
Categorized as Cycling, Horseshoe Bay, Society & Culture, Uncategorized Tagged Fourth of July, tandem recumbent bicycle

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