Today, the guineas accidentally learned that they can fly onto the roof and cackle there out of reach of any human intervention.
The three stooges
Category: Live
Into the woods
Apple blossoms. Malus domestica 
Violets. Viola 
Logs inoculated with Chicken-of-the-Woods spawn. Laetiporus sulphureus 
Frog spawn in the creek. 
Trying not to fall in the creek. 
Footprints in the mud. 
Racoon and deer. 
Bobcat. 
Wild blueberries. Vaccinium angustifolium 
Wild blueberries. Vaccinium angustifolium
The hunt is on
The score: 0 morels, but a whole lot of other neatness.
Crowsfoot or running cedar. Diphasiastrum digitatum 
Fiddlehead ferns. 
Witches’ butter. Tremella mesenterica 
Witches’ butter. Tremella mesenterica 
Eastern box turtle. Terrapene carolina carolina 
A bit of luck caught my eye. 
Mayapple or American mandrake. Podophyllum peltatum 
Abby found an owl pellet and carried it home in a leaf. 
Time for science! 
Dissection in progress. Those tweezers are going to be sterilized when the kids are done with them. 
Furry!
Fire burns, rain falls
Sunset over the daffodils
How does your garlic grow?
jmdodd@gmail.com
Yup, that’s me. Been that way since forever. Or as my husband told our middlest-ish kid, “We’ve been around for awhile.” There’s some backstory about the why of that name and the early Internet, but that’s for another time.
So it has been my moniker since 2004. It has been mostly great, but there have been some hiccups.
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Today was one of those hiccups. I started getting email from Target.com about something I’d purchased… only I hadn’t. Target.com apparently doesn’t verify emails on account creation which, in case you hadn’t guessed, leads to problems. Target.com customer support (on the phone line listed for security issues, no less!) also happened to have no idea of how to handle this. The representative pretty much vapor locked when I called them to explain the situation and request that my email address be removed from the account. “We can’t do that because we can’t verify you for security purposes.” Massive facepalm.
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