So, there is this big ol'  fat squirrel that has learned how to raid the bird feeder.  It tickled Auntie Katie no end to watch it, she was bubbly on Saturday, getting up and peering through the blinds as it emptied the feeder; eating the sunflower seeds and tossing everything else out.  he wraps his tail around the pillar of the porch, leans over and rummages through the seed.  he has gone through our whole bag of birdsseed now.  so the feeder is empty and he's not happy.  but Katie loved watching his cute if obnoxious self.  he's made quite a mess on the ramp, and the bird feeder itself is

this is kind of impressive; the Retour des Cendres was the 1840 return of Napoleon's remains from exile in St. Helena, to rest in France.  imaginee the funeral of Lincoln, plus the fourth of July, but amplified by a vast crowd of snails and a heaping helping of Chicken Merengo. https://www.ebay.com/itm/C-B-G-Mignot-Beautiful-Retour-des-Cendres-de-Napoleon-Lead-Painted-Toy-amp-Figures-/195134282525?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

my favorite game on my Tandy Coco2 was Dungeons of Daggorath; one of the very first first person games.  it was pretty fun if super crude, it was at least 60 to 70 percent of the clocktime my tandy did in it's lifespan...  the CoCo2 had a cartridge port on the side and many games were available on cartridge; but the disk drive also used the cartridge port, with a ribbon cable adapter that plugged there, so you couldn't play the game  and use the port for anything else.  I think the printer maybe used that port too, but I don't really remember.  On the other hand you could SAVE DoD game prog

it  seems that there is some kind of connection between the symbolic painting of cave walls and the interment of the dead, at least for some broad periods of early prehistory...  would that we had time traveling anthropologists; https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220601142635.htm

such pretty things