Which Cat Was This?

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Is this Slinki-Malinki?

Definitely Slinki-Malinki

Who is this cat? She was definitely ours but I can’t place her in the long list of “McKee” cats. The picture was taken in the courtyard of our Dublin house.

65th Reunion, Middlebury College

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Time marches on. June 1958 marked my college graduation. I am working on an essay for the yearbook that will be compiled for the occasion. Below is a photo from the big day in 1958.

My Aunt Libby, Cousin Betsy, Janet the graduate, my mother, my sister-in-law Lil, June 1958

Moving on from June 1958, there were graduate studies at Northwestern University, the University of California Berkeley, and University College Dublin,, much travel, marriage for 54 years, 3 sons, 9 grandchildren. Does moving to a Retirement Home with Assisted Living in Seattle the last stop? I do not think so. I have much to look forward to – engaging with new friends as well as old, and I have 2 long term projects which are keeping me busy and engaged. My current passions are genealogy and postcard collecting. And I have an ongoing blog, Janet’s Thread, for which I try to write an entry each day. Plus I am still active in the fibre arts scene as a weaver, knitter, and crocheter.

An old postcard of Le Chateau

At my weaving loom in Bhutan – We lived there for 2 years – a rich experience in the Himalayas. It’s a bit misleading to include this photo since I no longer have the big loom and I don’t weave at that scale – but I couldn’t resist!

The Hagerman Formation: Multi-Use Geology

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So much information. Wonderful fossil finds.

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The Hagerman Formation, a layer of sand and silt compressed to fragile sedimentary rock, is part of the larger Idaho Group. It’s world famous as the source of the Hagerman fossils. A large piece of the Formation is preserved as the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, which has produced thousands of fossils across more than 220 species. The most famous fossil is probably the Hagerman Horse, a Pliocene era, zebra-sized ancestor of the modern horse. But the fossil beds also contain everything from mastodon fossils to sabertooths (saberteeth?) to shrews.

The Hagerman Formation is a small element of the deep layers mud, sand and gravel deposited by the series of ancient lakes that are collectively known as Lake Idaho. At some of Lake Idaho’s various peak levels, it extended from 60 miles west of Boise east to the Twin Falls area. Boise itself was Lake Idaho lakebed, hundreds of feet…

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NOT IN MY GARDEN

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Different birds to add to one’s list.

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You see enough of the regular visitors to our garden, so I thought of spreading my wings a little to show you a sampling of some of the many other birds we see in this country. First up though is a native of Australia that turns up in odd places – the Black Swan:

The rest of the birds on show today are indigenous and the first of these is a large local resident at some lakes, dams and rivers – the Goliath Heron:

A bird that is ubiquitous all over South Africa – and which is making increasing inroads in the UK – is the Egyptian Goose:

Some time ago I proudly showed you photographs of the flamingos we were able to observe in the West Coast National Park. This flock of Greater Flamingos is flying over a dam in Gauteng:

Although I do not see…

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