Today's TIL fun fact: hummingbirds are 43 million years old, 21 million in the Americas. They are older than ice caps, grasslands, and us. I'm also glad their memories return a few to us again each year. They know exactly which window the one feeder is. Watching an Attenborough doc about them. 😍
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When we lived in CT, the WHFD would "rent" out the station for b-day parties. Kids could climb the trucks, the pole, get a tour. My son loved it. If they had to leave another truck would station itself. Caveat, the party could be cancelled if worst case. They'd fill your pool for a price too.
Hope for Vicky.
I posted the text of my speech on my website. It's slightly different bc I adlibbed a lot and did some hand-edits at the last minute, but it's pretty close to what I actually said.
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For a moment a few years back, Vicky was occasionally used in place of Karen, so that was on the edge of worrisome. TG it never came to fruition and Karen held the crown. Caveat, oc, not all of them. Or, if it's my kids, they'd done something ridiculously absurd or silly. I prefer the latter.
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Hi, all. It’s been a while since I updated this blog! Figured now was a good time, since I just became SFWA’s newest Grand Master! I got an award for it at the Nebula Conference this past weekend, but...
Was reminded I read Dover Beach in college. Arnold wrote this on his honeymoon.
"Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night." www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43588/...
But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of…
I've told this story before but as a little kid i told everyone i was going to be a garbage truck driver when i grew up. when i became an archaeologist, my parents told me they were proud that i had held onto my childhood dream of collecting other people's rubbish
