Greensboro Birds

Last Saturday, July 11, in a time of 4 hours 20 minutes, Josh ran 26.2 miles from Boone, NC, to Grandfather Mountain in the Grandfather Mountain Marathon, which is known as one of America’s toughest marathons. Not only did he finish in the top 50%, he ran the entire route in $6 aqua socks from [...]

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We lost the lovely Skula Barred Rock yesterday. She went from our most prolific pullet to an ailing little bird in just a few weeks. We never could figure out what was wrong with her, but she gave it the old college try. Skula still holds the house record for most consecutive days laying (22), [...]

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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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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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The day began with me wrenching my back to get a shot of this yellow-rumped warbler in bright breeding plumage. We don’t usually see ‘em this fancy down here, so I was fooled at first into thinking it was some other, more exotic warbler.

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