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Britt’s Canadian Adventure
Britt left today. Headed back to NYC and her baby, Inky. Because she flew out of Soo, Canada, Dan drove her across the International Bridge. Her first visit to our friendly neighbor to the north. The friendly neighborhood Canadian customs agent who welcomed her, could have starred on the Red and Green show. They had enough time before her flight to visit the old Canadian locks, -eh. Down by the Saint Marie’s rapids they found a multitude of beaver dams. After dropping her off, Dan returned to the cabin and set upon fixing the cabin’s deck. Sagging joists were leveled and its decking smoothed. To do this job, he borrowed the RAV4’s jack. Getting it out, he discovered the pictured bug. It is a male Rainbow Scarab Beatle. It was dead and there was no telling how long it had been in the car, since it is indigenous across the US. A pretty bug, especially for a dung beetle. It was a male. It has a horn and males are always horny.
Happy Birthday Maren!
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Superior Sunset
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Fowl Morning
The last two mornings, Anne and I have walked Declan and Puck down the beach. Today, Puck flushed some turkeys and then did not know what to do with them, since they are bigger than she is. Other than a lot of noise and a glimpse of the turkeys flying up into the trees, we did not really see them. Unlike the pictured mergansers and loon. The mergansers wanted little to do with us and kept swimming away, but the loon followed us as we walked down the beach. It was a very grey morning, with overcast that began to rain as we got back to the cabin. Later Anne and Declan walked the short end of the beach. When they got to that end, they began collecting rocks. Declan filled his pockets so full of rocks that his pants began to sag down. Then Anne introduced Declan to the joys of tossing rocks into the water. Soon all of his pockets were empty.
Maren Sirening