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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 a […]

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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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