Jesse knows everything

 

 

Feed the dogs in the morning.  If one piece of kibble spills out onto the kitchen counter, Jesse knows.  She can’t see the countertop from where she is on the floor, but her nose knows.  After she eats, she’ll stand in the kitchen and moan.  Go there and ask what’s wrong and she’ll run to the closest spot to the counter and look up.  Even if you can’t see it at first, keep looking.  There will be a piece of kibble there.

 

If there are two pieces of kibble there and you only give her one and walk away; it’s not over till it’s over.  She knows.

 

 

Northern Shoveler

 

 

 

 

 

South Padre Island

 

 

Like rush-hour in the air.  Gulls and skimmers.  Ducks on the water.

 

Just skimmers.

 

Cursive

 

 

At the federal level it hasn’t been a core school requirement since 2010.  Less than half the states require it in school at all.  It seems irrelevant in these times of laptops, smart phones, and tablets.  Who needs to write by hand anymore?

 

That brings a question to my mind.  Every legal document we sign has those two lines:  Print your name here.  Your signature here.  If a kid doesn’t know how to write in cursive, as an adult how are they going to sign a document?  Are the print line and signature line going to look exactly the same?

 

 

 

Another 80-degree day

 

 

And a sunset to go with it.

 

Big weather coming soon though.  West to east across the whole country.

 

Chachalaca

 

 

They’re big tropical-looking gregarious noisy birds.

 

 

And sometimes they even have attitude.

 

This tree

 

 

 

There is something in it.

 

It’s an eastern screech-owl.

 

Pretending to be asleep!