Greensboro Birds

From now on, I say to all lowballers, “Sir, I am not the taco stand.”

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Mmm, smell the spices! Today I revived a favorite dish that Josh and I used to get at Turkish restaurant Hemsin in Sunnyside, Queens: Lamb kofte. Since Memorial Day is a time to relish our freedom, I thought it was a good time to continue freeing ourselves from missing the foods we thought we’d never [...]

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Josh noted some time ago that mourning doves are not the sharpest tools in the shed. Yesterday, we learned that they also aren’t the brightest birds in the coop after this one found itself hopelessly trapped in ours—despite the presence of the great big chicken door it went through in the first place. When I [...]

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Josh just got back from a 20-mile run (yes, I said 20 miles*) at Chinqua Penn. He saw a summer tanager on a fence just at the margin of the woods and one of the cow pastures. He describes it as “all red, sorta maybe bluebird-size, with a light-color beak.” Yep, that’s a summer tanager, [...]

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Here’s Tito before.
And now, Tito after…
It’s like a whole ‘nother dog!
This is Tito’s first summer haircut. As a lhasa apso/terrier, Tito has such beautiful thick, shiny, person-like hair that none of us—me, Josh, Tito’s groomer, or the ladies at the vet—have had the courage to say, “Shave it off!” But Tito is an active dog [...]

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