Summer Jackel

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Gay coyote-with-a-hint-of-collie in a redwood forest. Art, pictures, words, fiddle, equestrian, handler of a beloved and diverse pack. She/her, flexibly. 18+

Pedestrian wolf; animal eloquence, sometimes.

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What I'm researching tonight: Regency-era top hats. I wanted to know if they were made of silk. (No, that was a Victorian innovation.) regencygentleman.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/t...

The top hatregencygentleman.wordpress.com We all know hats come in different shapes and sizes throughout history, depending on era and one´s social status. Todays post takes a closer look at the headgear that is so essential for the dapper ge...

River and Plumeria spending some garden time ...yeah these 2 don't love each other at all or anything

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Walking Banjo to the corner store at 10pm for beer and frozen pizza is about all the ‘Merica I’ve got in me.

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While many ducks have a coloured wing patch, the Northern Shoveler said “give me two!” Add the green head, the spoon-like bill and the orange feet, and they are a package! This male northern shoveler decided to fly to the other side of the marsh to check out the foraging options!🪶

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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid

a small, brightly colored reef feels, strongly, that I should Feed The Fish Now. These are Lake Malawi mbuna cichlids, mostly electric yellow labs (no really) and they are alert, intelligent little friends.

Mako and I are going to do a dog show this weekend; one of my fave shows in one of my fave towns, Ferndale, which has great coastal weather. Shark Dude has now been washed in many fine products; I'll trim paws tonight and maybe bathe again in the AM. He might win something and we'll have fun!

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So it turns out that the weirdest animal in Lake Baikal is not the freshwater seal. No, it's the GODDAMN CHIRONOMID MIDGES WHOSE LARVAE LIVE AT OVER 1300 METERS IN DEPTH WHILE THE ADULTS ARE WINGED INSECTS

Maryhill's weird, epic, monumental Stonehenge replica and its vistas

She's a festive little sparkler

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today’s bandana 🦖🦕

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Yes I ended my talk with a poetry reading. I send this poem to my parents every 4th of July. Here it is in full if you've never read it: poets.org/poem/let-ame...

In my early career award lecture at AERA last weekend, I ended my talk with a reading of an excerpt from Let America Be America Again

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Maryhill also has a ghost station, where only the memory of gasoline is served. it's across from the 1888 church.

Little birds, just hatched! cheep cheep cheep cheep The 2 in the middle with the cute head tooft might be Polish or part, since I have a pair in the flock, but some of the others also have head fluff. The last one is so pretty! All 4 of you need to be pullets, ok guys?

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Anyway, your semi-regular reminder that no one's worth is in their ability to be productive. You're a living being. You have worth, period.

The Maryhill Stonehenge is a fascinating monument and was a good place to rest Trout and Mako, who were at this point pretty tired. ...wait what? why is there a cement replica of Stonehenge (restored to like-new condition) in Maryhill? This thing looks absolutely surreal...

Maryhill has a pretty 1888 church with nice windows and detail. Well cared for and loved, but sadly one of the side windows was broken. Hopefully its carers will fix that, but I did get a nice shot of the inside.

The next stop along the way was Maryhill, the point where our path diverged from the Columbia. This is a beautiful place, with campgrounds and peach orchards on the rivershore, and a lot of interesting history.

Desert, river. At the confluence of John Day and Columbia

Some splashing and some zooming at the John Day river

Shades of blue with ice and desert caught between: view of Mt. Hood from the confluence of the John Day and Columbia rivers. Yeah I saw this from the road while driving and realized I needed to stop and stare at it for a minute til my brain started working again. Impossibly beautiful. So real.

More Russian Houndballet Mako and Trout having a well deserved zoom. My plan to stop anywhere that looked interesting or good for the dogs on the way back from Washington turned out well.

Road trip log continues; this seems like a great day to post pics of happy dogs. After the show, we found a spot where fishboys could have a good tear and get entirely wet and filthy. Then we all went for a swim in the John Day river, which was great.

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brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is

I maybe solved the 'River and Mako need the same class' problem by taking both of them, making sure I get the whole half hour floor time before it starts, and switching dogs. 1.30 of obedience instruction fatigues a yearling zoi emotionally; River will work forever, but rests help her focus.

The world is so grim right now. I'm so worried. Finding the right balance between awareness of what is going on and quality self care is hard. Focusing on this sweet little creature helps me even think about the problems, sometimes.

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“The drug manufacturer Merck now lists Covid as the third most common cause of lymphocytopenia, right behind HIV. What's lymphocytopenia? It's immunodeficiency. …A pharmaceutical giant like Merck doesn't say something like that unless it's definitive.” COVID IS NOT MILD. Avoid infection, N95😷

Every Covid surge brings a surge in denial. So I wrote one big article summing up the mess we're in: www.okdoomer.io/everything-t...

Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About Covidwww.okdoomer.io We're scratching the surface.

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Things I've spontaneously said to animals. Mailing list: buttondown.email/rosemarymosco Patreon: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon