High temps are dropping into the upper 80s this week — time to bust out the parkas! We’re starting to see a little color in the leaves:
Here’s an anhinga (aka snakebird) swimming in the river. His or her mate (I think) is perched on the left-most end of the fallen tree, hidden a bit by other greenery.
The mates converse throughout this aquatic operation with ratchet-like calls. I imagine the treed bird is nagging the other to mind the gators, and the swimming bird is replying I know already…
Last but not least, a turtle pokes its head out of the river for a look around:
It’s a red-bellied river cooter, I think. (Yes, that’s really what folks call them.)
That’s all I’ve got, friends. Just loading up on serenity before the debate, which I definitely plan to watch. You?
PS: I miss the “critters” tag, but I dare not restore it!
HumboldtBlue
When being ‘woke’ means ensuring nothing happens to your money, LeBron James style.
Meanwhile, a man whose entire family is actively being persecuted by the Erdogan government makes some salient points.
jeffreyw
I hope you live blog it, I’ll be here watching.
rikyrah
nice pictures :)
rikyrah
Trump’s foreign policy reaches the ‘collapsing into catastrophe’ stage
10/15/19 03:22 PM
By Steve Benen
rikyrah
@HumboldtBlue:
The same folks whining about what LeBron is or isn’t saying about China/Hong Kong…
Would tell him to ‘ shut up and play ball’, when he brings up anything to do with Black folk.
so, folks can miss me wanting the NBA Players to risk 20% of their income protesting about a country that isn’t even ours.
Mr. James can afford that…..and has other income to supplement what he could lose…
Other players do not.
germy
The role of Catwoman in the upcoming Matt Reeves “The Batman” film will be played by Zoe Kravitz.
Jeffrey Wright will play Commissioner Gordon.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
The delicate touch of a moronic narcissist’s deranged concept of running around in circles.
currants
@rikyrah: I don’t know how you manage to read so much and post so many items/links in comments, but I appreciate it (and I know I only see maybe 1/10 of them!). Thank you.
rikyrah
CBS vice-chair Shari Redstone ‘is looking into launching a rival to Fox News and has already spoken to Megyn Kelly’
CBS Corp and Viacom Inc reached a deal in August to reunite 96-year-old media mogul Sumner Redstone’s U.S. entertainment empire after 13 years apart
Daughter Shari is said to have had meetings about a conservative-leaning show
A source said CBS News would likely be shielded if the venture goes ahead
She may rebrand an existing Viacom channel, according to Hollywood Reporter
A Viacom spokesperson denied any new channel ‘conservative or otherwise’
Sources say Redstone is understood to have met with Trump in recent weeks
The president has been increasingly critical of Fox News on Twitter
By LAUREN FRUEN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:42 EDT, 15 October 2019 | UPDATED: 15:54 EDT, 15 October 2019
HumboldtBlue
@rikyrah:
Way to avoid the fucking issue by turning to some right-wing bullshit. LeBron made an ass of himself and decided his paycheck was worth more than the lives of fellow humans who are being brutally oppressed by a government he has no fucking problems doing business with.
We’re asking him to show a fucking spine, but yeah, you shove your head further up your ass about what you’re not going to get excited about.
germy
@rikyrah: The blog that your nym links to. Are there any plans to post more threads there? Are you a writer there?
Dorothy A. Winsor
We’ve been saying that with Trump at the helm, things are chaotic and that’s even before an outside crisis occurs. With Syria, our luck ran out.
On a personal note, I am home from my colonoscopy and very glad it’s behind me and in my rear view mirror. Things came out just fine. (I’m saving you all a lot of trouble.)
Mary G
The swamp you live in, Betty, is so beautiful, unlike the one in DC. Thanks for sharing it with us.
germy
@Mary G: We see the photos, but I bet the sounds are interesting, too. All those critters! I bet they love making noise.
NotMax
@germy
If she doesn’t have a henchperson named Tunch, that’s one star taken away from reviews automatically.
:)
rikyrah
@germy:
No, I don’t post there anymore. I post at
https://3chicspolitico.com/
mrmoshpotato
Snorkel hood time!
jl
Thanks for pretty swamp and peaceful critter pix.
@germy: thanks for suggestion. It hadn’t occurred to me that a full service blog worth the very (very) steep subscription price would provide blog sound. Too late to request that blog rebuild week?
NotMax
Eat it, eat it good. (Also big enough to wear.)
:)
raven
We’re headed down the Emerald Coast next week. Amberjack season ends the 31and they put in a weekend snapper season this month so I figured I’d give it a try.
jl
@rikyrah: Thanks for posting that link.
I don’t see enough pushback in media against the Trumpster gaslighting that the Syrian troop withdrawal is part of the brilliant Trump master plan to bring out troops home.
The net impact of his most recent moves are a +2000 change in troops in the area. The Trump increase in Saudi Arabia is for an obscure purpose, with Saudi Arabia paying through obscure, perhaps corrupt, means, which makes the deployment stink of a mercenary expedition.
In Syria we had a much smaller force providing critical stability to further US national security and diplomatic interests in a very volatile and dangerous area.
Obvious to Trump which deployment was more important.
NotMax
@raven
Thought you might get a kick out of this one time four-color hero.
;)
germy
@rikyrah: Thanks, I’ll check it out. I always enjoy your comments and links here.
Aleta
From Vanity Fair, quoting Kimmel jokes about DJT
R-Jud
“Time to bust out the parkas,” she says. Ha. I’m heading to Austin next week (I’m a finalist in one of the Austin Film Festival script competitions) and the weather there looks… very different from the weather here in England. All the natives will have their cardigans and boots on and I’ll be sweating, as the kids say, balls.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: When you have ribeye steak, you must floss it! Oh, that meatloaf tasted great! You must floss it! Now, floss it! Floss it good!
trollhattan
Squeezed in a late-season backpack last week–five days in the Sierra high country. Because it was also huntin’ season and we were not in a National Park, no megafauna were spotted, other than some cattle early on. Being still summer-adjusted the low of 15 degrees one morning was kinda much, but other than that and a couple days of wind it was a great trip. One night hunkered by the campfire we both heard a “whoosh” pass overhead, traveling from east to west. Had to check with one another we weren’t hallucinating and pondered everything from a flock of vewy, vewy quiet migrating birds to some kinda stealthy surveillance drone belonging to the Marine Corps Mountain Training Center housed several miles down Highway 108. Flying a drone into a Wilderness would be illegal but hey, everything goes in 2019. I’m settling on the birds theory.
Another night my headlamp caught a pair of bright green eyes in a tree across the creek from our camp. Mr/Ms owl was checking me out, and I was truly startled on first noticing it. Thank god it blinked.
No Donny and Co., not much oxygen either for five days–highly recommended.
evodevo
Cooters and sliders, FTW!!
Ohio Mom
I am still recovering from three days of in-laws descending on Cincinnati. Ohio Dad’s Colorado cousin and her husband flew in to visit my mother-in-law, then two others were inspired to drive in to join the fun.
I’ve given this over two decades, and they still haven’t grown on me.
trollhattan
@Aleta:
Kimmel’s writers lifted my two-sided witch hunt line from here yesterday. I want licensing fees! Kimmel! [shakes fist]
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
Kil. Me. Nao.
Roger Moore
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
You’re certainly saving trouble creating colonoscopy puns.
Aleta
@trollhattan: Those pilfering pillagers. They owe you a check.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
Sounds fun, if you like that sort of thing. I’m getting ready for a week-long trip to southern Utah. I will be mostly staying away from the most popular National Parks and instead going to the very endangered Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Avalune
@Ohio Mom: Lol! I may know someone who can relate.
Aleta
@trollhattan: I backpacked only once in the high Sierras. I wish I had gone more.
NotMax
@Roger Moore – @Dorothy A. Winsor
One crack at a time, puh-leeze.
:)
trollhattan
@Aleta:
Don’t go nearly enough myself, and have no excuse living in the valley. Once I’m there the first question is, “Why don’t I do this more often?” Fall can be glorious and this one is excellent. Tiny fraction of last year’s fires, for one thing.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I’m not a doctor, but if performed correctly, the procedure is always behind you. Glad it turned out well.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: @BillinGlendaleCA: Haha.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Ancient joke.
“First thing I’m going to do when I win the lottery is buy myself a new ass.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Mine has a crack in it.”
japa21
Great pictures, Betty. You have improved greatly, and you had a good starting point. Won’t discuss the attempts by Cole.
Raven
@NotMax: Awesome!
BruceFromOhio
The first pic has a lovely serenity to it. Thank you for sharing!
NeenerNeener
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My visit with the Polyp Patrol went well too.
WaterGirl
Stunning first photo, Betty!