MISS FEE;THE DIAL SWITCHER-reblog

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I can’t stop laughing.

Don Ostertag's avatarDon Ostertag: Off Stage

Bad weather. Schools closed, except for teaching via the net. Before your time, we had bad weather, school closing, but no idea there would ever be such a thing as the net.

Back in those days, there was also no TV, no Tik Tok, no E Books and as far as cell phones were concerned, never even dreamed of such things. We were considered blest to have a wall mounted dial phone, even if we shared it with an eight other phones on the party line. But we had radio. The Golden Age of Radio.

And like today, we had weather. And like today, weather was talked about a lot. And like today, there was nothing we could do to change it.

This is a remembrance of that time long ago.

Miss Fee

Another back-in-the-day post:  before we had streaming TV, heck before we ever heard of TV, we…

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Return of Bird of the Week: Herring Gull

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Herring Gull, female, breeding plumage, Tangle River, Alaska

If you want to provoke an argument among gull specialists, ask them how many species of Herring Gull there are. Depending on the ornithologist, you’ll be told one, three of five. Among American ornithologists, at least, there’s a fuzzy consensus that there is just one, and five to nine subspecies. Among Europeans, on the other hand, you will heard three or five. The problem is that Herring Gulls are so variable, and hybridize so enthusiastically, that the systematics of this species are a real problem. Certainly the Vega Gull – the Asian version of the “Herring Gull” – is quite different looking than the American Herring Gull. The mantle and wings are much darker, the Vega Gull is smaller and the calls are different. But in a place where the ranges overlaps – the Norton Peninsula in Alaska, for example – you…

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