My Niece Is Fascinated With The Cicada Hawk! She Took This Second Picture Of It Guarding Its As Yet Unemergent

Is this real?

Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming

The Butcherbird strikes again! These hunter birds are fascinating to me. South Texas is a major flyway for a number of northern birds. Most Loggerhead Strike spend the summer in the far North nesting and growing strong for their Autumn voyage south to Texas. This bird is still here or already here. I've not seen it but here is the evidence. 8/9/19

Been there done that..it will happen again!

It dry folks. 9/2019

We have had almost 17 " in 3 weeks. Lots of fungi out and about. Not our normal.

What I admire about the Russians is their pride in being Russian and their respect for their homeland.

Why I love Russian

When Russians get tipsy they say “У меня вертолёты.” Lit. “I have the helicopters.”

There are two kinds of envy in Russian. “белая зависть” or “white envy” which is the good kind, where ultimately you are genuinely happy for the person and their good fortune. I think you can guess the other kind.

Russian’s terms of endearment are the best. “Солнышко” lit. “my small sun” and “Дорогуша” meaning “dearie” are among my favorites

Your first semester as a uni student is called “Боевое крещение” lit. “baptism by fire.” 

 When a Russian person feels like you are pulling their leg, they might say “Не надо мне лапшу на уши вешать” which means “don’t try to play me.” The literal translation? “Don’t hang noodles on my ears”

Russian people like to show their love for something by using diminutives, so phrases like “Буду кусочек этого тортика” lit. “I’ll have a teeny tiny piece of that cakey” and “Мне очень понравился этот супчик” lit. “I really liked that soupy-soup” are a common thing. My favorite diminutive, though? It’s “cпасибочки!” which literally means “Thankie!”

A scorpion with little ones on its back! South Texas is scorpion paradise! Yard work, Loading square bales ‘hay’, Pulling green corn all could be hazardous! However I prefer 'zapps’ from scorpions over wasps or honey bees as they dont hurt as much. According to my grandfather when dried corn was hand harvested 'pulled’ and tossed into a mule drawn wagon the harvester could expected many scorpion stings on his/her hands. Asking about gloves he replied gloves made it difficult to grip the corn so were not used.

One last drink before fertility testing at the vets office! 12 bulls tested 10 passed. The girls were waiting! These guys will lose some weight over the next month or two. You can see we are dry. 3/2020

Recent rains encouraged this beautiful cap to grow and spread! Any ideas? It is believed this edible mushroom is a coprinus sterquilinus which white upon emergence but this speciman has another fungus turning it black.

Javelinas at my old feeder. Hunting is awesome but many ranches round abouts have killed off their javelinas because they eat under the deer feeders and scare the deer. People are surprised that I have any around. So for me its 'how to keep the pesky deer from eating my javelina food!' Javelinas tend to have 2 "reds" or a set of twins. See one in the pic.