Ahoy ye blackguards and scallywags! Today be Talk Like a Pyrate Day! And to fill ye’r sorry lives, we three – Elaine, The Kalilily Queen, Jeneane, The Sword of the Marketeer, and meself, Flaming Bird, the Songster – will bring ye tales to make ye’r blood run hot, and ye’r spine run cold. After all, we Women of […]
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Madame Butterfly
The next month, from the middle of September until the middle of October, is the most beautiful time of the year in Missouri. The weather has cooled and the humidity dropped, and a slight breeze blows most days to keep the sky clean, and clear. The trees are in their richest green, their end of […]
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Burning Croft and Indiana Bird
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Isabel is churning her way closer to landfall in North Caroline, and my crossed fingers and good vibes go out to all the people I know in her path. I hope the worst you all suffer is a little power outage, giving you a nice little break from your computer. […]
update Looking through the Decision Document, given as an attachment to the court filing mentioned earlier, I found that the wastewater treatment plant that the USDA based its environmental review on is located in Gallatin, Tennessee, not Gallatin, Missouri. Oopsie. Earlier Last Friday, the USDA filed a motion in the Front Range Equine Rescue et al v. Vilsack […]
As is usual when I’m planning a trip, my favorite travel agent helped me with my maps and with my itinerary. I don’t know where I’d be without her. I took this photo as I was experimenting with uncompressed TIFF and RAW format photos. Though TIFF is the only supported format with my digital camera, […]