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When I got home from work last Monday evening, my most excellent spouse, Patricia said, “You’ll never guess who came by today!” She was right. About 8:30 Monday morning she had gone into the backyard and saw a scrub jay. The peanut box was already on the patio table so she picked out a couple [...]

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Dad was born in 1924 and so was a teenager during most of World War II. His two older brothers, Dar and Dale, joined the Navy. Dad got an exemption to stay home and work on the McAllister ranch where he landed after his mother died of tuberculosis in 1932, making them orphans. The Fuller [...]

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Big Boy Right Walker really likes those peanuts. More than a year ago I described how he would take two peanuts at a time. Since then I have watched him try and fail sometimes because the first peanut is so big that he is unable to close his beak around the second one. A few [...]

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And the City of Angels never looked so good. I watch all the CSI shows, have since the beginning of each of them. I still like the original best but they each have their own slant and strong points. My most excellent spouse, Patricia, only grudgingly tolerates CSI: Miami. She can only take so much [...]

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