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north florida - wild florida
Posted by: marsHen, 10:32 AM GMT on May 20, 2012 +0
05:50, 61F, slight fog. roosters up. yellow dogs at back door. new moon. solar eclipse but we won't see it. chilly..
08:50, low tide with herons at CK. warm. 70's. tide coming in. sold 2 doz. eggs. went home after p.o. and the market for milk.. got paper.
11:10, 89F at the farm. ate all the left-overs for lunch. a nap sounds good. lazy me ...
m. connelly's "5th witness" is boring. r.w. white's latest is dumb and boring. the publishers need to quit pushing these writers so hard..
Updated: 5:57 PM GMT on May 20, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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north florida - rocky hammock
Posted by: marsHen, 12:10 PM GMT on May 19, 2012 +0
07:18, 69F, overcast. roosters up. frogs croaking in the horse barn trough. fixin' to fry some bacon.19:00, 81F, variable breezes, mostly cloudy but sunny too.. hung out a wash at 13:00, it was dry by 16:00. instead of mowing, I put sheep in yard for afternoon. (dogs in pen.) had to watch them sheep - keep them off the pear tree and the roses. swallow-tail kite circling the farm yard. 5-line skink at back door.. just about time to start the chores. got 2 eg...
Updated: 2:24 AM GMT on May 20, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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north florida - suwannee river
Posted by: marsHen, 10:35 AM GMT on May 18, 2012 +0
05:50, 65F. foggy. roosters crowing, songbirds singing. doo-dah.. dixie at back door.. oatmeal.09:30, high tide on suwannee river. salt tide coming in. water temps: 27C, 79F. probably cooler on the bottom of the river. we trawled in an area deeper than 7 meters (22'). air temps upper 70's, wind NE, 5-7 knts. did mostly trawls. low catches, YOY sand trout, whiting.. and both salt and fresh water catfish, anchovies, mojarra, some blue crabs, plus a juv...
Updated: 3:25 AM GMT on May 19, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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north florida - the cedar keys
Posted by: marsHen, 10:29 AM GMT on May 17, 2012 +0
05:30, 67F. partly cloudy, a few stars, no moon in sight. roosters waking up. dixie at back door. oatmeal for breakfast.08:00, medium high tide at CK coming in. CK had 2" of rain last night. on the water by 08:40, low 70's. slight breeze. began fishing at porpoise creek south of corrigans reef. we were mobbed by dolphin.. they watched us deploy the bait seine. they came in close. they rode the bow wave. they played in the wake.. wonderful critters even t...
Updated: 3:15 AM GMT on May 18, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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north florida - wild florida
Posted by: marsHen, 12:05 PM GMT on May 16, 2012 +0
07:20, 71F, drizzling. roosters up. bruiser at back door. raisin bran for breakfast..08:50, 75F, totally overcast, barely drizzling. the west side of the house is damp. the east side fairly dry. thunder to the west.. nearby.. yellow dogs move under house.12:00, high tide at CK. had to run in for a little while. great egrets spotted the spartina. a flock of ibis poked around on a salt flat near the road into CK. mid-70's, overcast. rain all around and in...
Updated: 1:51 AM GMT on May 17, 2012   Permalink | A A A
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marine biologist around the Suwannee River delta. Raise Cracker sheep on an old Cracker farm ~ 12 mi. (as the crow flies) from the Gulf.

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