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GMOs

Everybody who let the Monsanto and Pepsi companies buy their vote on Califonia’s Proposition 37 ought to be ashamed of themselves. Even if you don’t care whether YOU eat GMOs, you allowed big chemical companies to buy from you the … Continue reading

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Two Bald Eagles Build Nest Near Ramona, Bringing Rare Sight | KPBS.org

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jan/22/eagles-build-nest-near-ramona/ Yes THINK about what DDT did to our environment. And now think about how our companies (yours and mine — it’s our country and we are responsible for its behavior) are still manufacturing and exporting DDT to third world … Continue reading

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First frog of the year

Western Pacific chorus frog. They move down from the oak trees into the water in the rainy season. How they know is beyond me. But we are supposed to get rain in a couple of days. Bob Spread the Good … Continue reading

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Another 1 bites the dust.

Lizard that is. Which is not as usual as it sounds, as I have snakes and Roadrunners and Falcons and hawks. In this case however I was out in the garden and I had passed a lizard sunning itself on … Continue reading

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Praying mantis with the remains of a tomato hornworm

I didn’t know a praying mantis would catch something this big. The tomato hornworm must have been almost as big as the mantis was by voice recognition on bob’s droid. Sorry for the Weird capitalization. Website http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/ Spread the Good … Continue reading

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Barn owl

Christmas eve just after nightfall I was leaving the house in the car and as I came down the driveway my lights shown out over the orchard. I caught a glimpse of something in the air and looked again and … Continue reading

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Gophers

I must have planted my fruit trees on gophercentral. I would get home and a tree would be completely wilted. I could just lift it up out of the ground. I had a lemon that was maybe 2 inches thick … Continue reading

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More praying mantis eggs

So this gal looks exactly like the grey one that was in the same bush this last summer. I think it is, and just changed colors. I wonder if it’s the temperature or something else. Anyways it laid a second … Continue reading

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Praying mantis again

This guy or gal was on in the same area that the grey 1 was in several months ago. It looks almost identical except for the coloration I wonder if they can change colors. by voice recognition on bob’s droid. … Continue reading

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Water bowls

I used to have all sorts of difficulties with the critters mostly rabbits and the ground squirrels chewing into the narrow irrigation lines to the trees. This would end up defeating the emitter at the end of the line and … Continue reading

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