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Quirky (True) Stories Volume 3: A backyard wilderness

Quirky (True) Stories Volume 3: A backyard wilderness

Hello.  Hello.  It looks like it is time for another round of Quirky (True) Stories, where I regale you with a small selection of random (but true!) stories, apropos of basically nothing. Like the last round of stories, this round has a theme, which is: Random, wild-animal stuff that has happened in my back yard.  That sounds vaguely exciting, but you will have to decide for yourself whether these stories live up to the hype.  I will warn you ahead…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2025 Look-Back

Another year, another blog look-back (here are the look-backs from the previous years: 2024, 2023). This year things have been a bit thin around here on daymooncrowmoon.com (which is particularly too bad, considering that this year’s Serial Steam-of-Consciousness Story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’ is my favorite of the SSCSs posted so far, and then I wasn’t around much with proper posts to give it much company, alas, alack!). This thinness would be easy to blame on the fact…

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Roses Round-up 2025

Roses Round-up 2025

So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden.  It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green.  But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time.  And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…

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fly-by-posting: 2025/08/23 (w/pic)

fly-by-posting: 2025/08/23 (w/pic)

Meet Hawk. Hawk may or may not have followed us home from the garden center, where we first noticed it by its shadow circling by overhead. After nonchalantly devouring its meal on our deck, Hawk flew off to sit in a tree.

Hello from [Various]

Hello from [Various]

Hello, whoever’s out there. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve put up a proper post.  This spring, and the lead-up to this spring, has been rather a lot.  And there’s a good chance there will be another long gap between this post and whatever goes up after it. To paint a general picture, I will just say that between last November and now I have:  1) Surmounted the hurdles of two very large projects, one for work and…

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20 Questions as of January 15th 2025

20 Questions as of January 15th 2025

Although I’d like to and intend to post something new and regular-blog-post-like to this blog on a semi-regular basis, sometimes I go for stretches where I seem to have lost access to any extra brain cells, especially the ones needed for coming up with anything even vaguely resembling ‘new.’  In fact, lately, I’ve been hovering near the borders of just such a state.  And so, I’ve come up with an idea!  What sort of prompt might require not very many…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2024 Look-Back

Well, the New Year is almost upon us, and so it’s time again that I’d like to look back at the year and see what I did with this blog and website in 2024.  I did the same thing last year (which you can see here if you’d like) and, because I am lazy, I think I’ll stick to the same format as last time.  Then, anyone who wants to do a side-by-side comparison of the two years (or am…

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