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Cool ‘Do

Suzy thought the new ‘do would help in attracting the coolest guy with the best gene pool but wondered if her breeding plumage was just a little over the top . . .

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Not Covered

While it had not exactly been promised, “If you like your vet, you can keep your vet,” it had surely been inferred.  Now Henri had a sore neck and found out that his Universal Health Care policy wouldn’t pay, that is, unless he was in the country illegally, in jail, or not working . . .

By |March 3rd, 2014|Categories: Beach Scenes, Birds, Texas|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Not Covered

Concealment

Timothy had recently seen on the Nature Channel that the big African cats used the tall grass for concealment, allowing them to sneak up on prey, thus making them the apex hunters.  Conceptually, the idea sounded reasonable to Timothy, but using the tall grass to help conceal him when catching minnows and frogs didn’t seem to help as much as he had hoped . . . . .  David, Sf.G.

By |January 16th, 2013|Categories: Birds|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Concealment

Further Than it Looks on the Map

When Gwen told her friends that she had always wanted to visit Cuba, they told her, “Look at the map, it looks like it’s just over the horizon.”  On the map, the distance from Galveston to Cuba was only a couple of fingers wide, but once under way it seemed to be farther than it looked . . . . .  David, Sf.G.

By |July 31st, 2012|Categories: Beach Scenes, Birds, Texas|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Further Than it Looks on the Map