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Tag: Wildlife

  • Anti-aging AI Inhibitors

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    This past weekend my wife, son and I visited longtime friends who live and run a 5* resort  (denalilakeviewinn.com) on Otto Lake at Denali National Park’s spectacular doorstep. Unfortunately overcast, drizzly conditions excluded us from Denali’s (some call it Mt. McKinnley) 30 % Club … only 30% of Park visitors actually get to see a…

  • Labor Day Guests

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    An overcast, drizzly Labor Day was brightened by a visit from some feral friends …a single mom and her youngun’. Fortunately, we didn’t have to prepare a large meal … strict vegetarians, they insisted on trimming the shrubbery 😊 “All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The…

  • Labor Day Levity

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    Hope this Labor Day holiday proves to be an extra-special one for y’all. Thought perhaps some might enjoy some ‘laborless’ levity from up here in wilds of the Last Frontier. Yesterday our game cam captured a truly incredible incident right in our front yard … a mythological Bigfoot emerging from the woods chasing a wild…

  • Who’s Roaming Your Digs?

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    Urbanites utilize doorbell camera security 😎 to record whoever may be roaming their premises. Here in the Last Frontier we rely on game cameras 😊 Here’s a couple recent vid clips of wanderers in our backyard. Fortunately, Mr. Grizz didn’t decide to visit at the same time as Mama and Bullwinkle Jr. came by 😧…

  • Happy 4th!

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    From our Last Frontier abode to yours we wish y’all an extra-special 4th of July together. This little guy showed up on our deck this morning with some squirrely life advice 😊. . . “Look both ways before you cross the road Stay active Eat plenty of fiber Confuse your enemies, change direction Be bright…

  • Afternoon Art and Neighbors

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    Bright sunshine and balmy 72 degrees lured Ellie and I to take a short drive around our neighborhood. Our game-cam revealed Mr. Bullwinkle was also out strolling through our backyard.  Don’t know Mrs. and young Jr. were roaming. Here’s a few pics of some of the scenes of our Master’s artwork that held us ole…

  • Nature’s Healing Touch

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    “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul” – John Muir Such was my Lost and Found therapy wandering the Great Smoky Mountain forests. Shinrin-yoku (‘forest bathing’) is the Japanese practice of immersing oneself in the wilderness for mind and body healing renewal. John Muir expressed it as ……

  • Home Break-in Follow-up

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    Following Smokey’s recent small tree house break-in, our community’s FCW (Feral Crime Watch) director ambled upstream to the scene of Smokey’s recent house break-in. Having endured past disturbing Smokey incidents, Bambi was prompted to gather a few feathered FCW members to discuss Smokey’s latest rowdy behavior that left Mr. and Mrs. Screech Owl homeless ☹…

  • Family Grubbing – Part 2

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    Mama and her kids showed back up this morning. They almost look cute enough to consider adopting, but not after seeing where they’ve been sticking their noses 😊 Watching all these little guys a wierd thought suddenly flashed through my ADHD noggin’, not an uncommon event for this ole dude . . . Mark 5:12-13…

  • Family Grubbing

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    Moma and her seven piglets showed up to last night and went ‘hog wild’ ‘rooting around’ for grub to ‘pig out’ on … lotsa’ ‘swineing’ going on 😊… that was really bad ☹ Smile … fire up the grill … and pass the Bar-B-Q sauce 😊 Keep Looking Up ^ . . . His Best…