Month: November 2025

And why wouldn’t there be?

So nice to see my old buddy Rick Lanman recently explaining the work they are doing to document native salmon in the Guadalupe watershed.

I don’t think he will ever really retire and we are lucky.

Wow yesterday was  a magical day in which I guess the year felt anxious that it hadn’t given us enough to be thankful for so it through in  a little bonus package just to be sure.

The first is that we got our grant for the festival. Hurray!

The second is that our order of the cards for the activity  came and they are SOO CUTE! Remember is that kids get the cards the figure out clues to collect stickers and join the water brigade!

And the third is this and I’ll let this awesome video tell the tale.

I know this is usually an otter-free zone but this deserves to be rewarded. Finding mom and reuniting the same day is TOP NOTCH.

I caught this news clip and was immediately impressed with the casual, determined  way this farmer in Whitwell poses for the news crew wearing a windbreaker in the sleeting rain and then the raining sleet without a single grumble. He has seen it all before. Farming is a hard life and he knows it.

He is far leess tolerant of the rodent that floods his hay fields though.I must be a city girl because I thought hay needed water to grow?

Happy thanksgiving! Ever since I read this wonderful study I have been thinking about making this graphic. Yesterday’s holiday lag was the perfect excuse to try my luck. Feel free to share and honor the real artist behind my collage, the very very talented Lizzie Harper of Wales.