Our heat wave continues (from the National Weather Service via the Weather Underground): … Record highs broken or tied across the Las Vegas forecast area again today [July 6, 2007]… … The high temperature at McCarran International Airport here in Las Vegas this afternoon climbed to 115 degrees. This reading tied the record high for [...]
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More Record Temperatures Broken
July 7, 2007
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Another Warm Night
February 13, 2007
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Well, it has been warm enough during the day for the sulcata and the leopard tortoises to be somewhat active. I turned the heat off in the tortoise shelter on Saturday and they wandered about, got a drink of water and the sulcata even took a few tentative bites at a dandelion. The nights have [...]
The Importance of Turtle Conservation
December 14, 2006
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The New York Times has an excellent article on the importance of turtle conservation. Yes, that is me, sans beard, surfing a hatchling Trachemys scripta elegans at the Central Park Zoo back in 2002. These glorious animals deserve to be saved because they provide people like me endless hours of amusement. Technorati Tags: endangered species, [...]
Cold Weather Coming to Syzdekistan
November 29, 2006
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We’ve had two days of fairly breezy southerly winds which means a cold front is on the way. Saturday I put up the Christmas lights and it was actually fairly warm on the south side of our roof in the sun. Air temperature was probably around 70° but with no wind and the radiation reflecting [...]
Fluffy, Rest in Peace
November 7, 2006
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We lost one of our beloved pets over the weekend. Fluffy was a female Australian bearded dragon (Pagona vitticeps). She was pretty big, about 18 inches long, and like most bearded dragons, very tame and easy to handle. I bought Fluffy from a friend who was moving back in November 1997 so I had her [...]
‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin Killed by Stingray
September 4, 2006
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I just got done with my evening run (more on that saga later) around midnight tonight and I had just finished logging it on my Mac when I checked CNN and they had a breaking news story that Steve Irwin had been killed by a stingray near Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. I was a fan [...]
Man from Gleed Rescues Sulcata on the Lam
August 8, 2006
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They said I was crazy when I requested that the fences along I-82 be made tortoise proof…. He said he read about the missing tortoise in the Yakima Herald-Republic and took his dog in an all-terrain vehicle to help Lind with her search, eventually following a trail of crushed grass along the fence for about [...]
Remembering Kooshie
May 19, 2006
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Today we had to put Kooshie to sleep. Kooshie was truly my cat. I got her back in my college days in 1991 or 1992 when she was about a year old. I took her “temporarily†for my college girlfriend Melanie when she moved to an apartment that wouldn’t allow pets. Even before dating Melanie, [...]
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