Yesterday was really, really really f*cking cold. And windy. Also cold. Despite this, much was accomplished thanks to help from my buddy John (who thinks I’ll pay him back by helping him out at some point in the future. Sucker). So now we have a new water heater installed (and nobody drowned nor was electrocuted), an empty POD in the driveway (but a kinda full garage), a generator with wheels and handles (with an empty gas tank and crankcase – gotta get some oil and gas), and last night I slept in an actual bed for the first time in about five months. And yesterday was Leonard Nimoy’s 80th birthday (it’s nice to see that’s he’s living long and prospering – even though he looks a little bit too much like Steve Jobs, though of course Jobs is, like, a 56 year old man that looks like an 80-yr old, while Nimoy is a guy that look pretty darn good for an 80 year old man). Plus I think I’ve finally figured out what to do with all my old typewriters. I can hardly wait to see what today will bring.
In case you’ve been wondering about the life and times (and mates) of Palemale, here’s Lincoln’s latest:
As if Palemale’s life was not complex enough, on Friday March 25th it became even more puzzling.
A new female showed up and Paula has disappeared. This new female resembles the one which Palemale was courting last December after Lola disappeared.
It is very likely that the newest female on March 25th is Mate #5 (Lima) who had a 6 week relationship with Palemale from early December to the end of January, and then disappeared. She was followed by Mate #6 (Paula) who stayed with Palemale for almost two months from late January to late March. Paula and Palemale mated intensively from February 20th until March 24th where on that night she displayed behavior of having laid her first egg. She spent the night of March 24th on her nest suggesting that there was indeed an egg laid.
The very next day my observation began in the early afternoon where I found that Mate #5 (Lima) had taken over the nest and both Palemale and she were behaving like there was indeed an egg in the nest and though Paula was not present Lima sat on the nest just like it was her own. Palemale & Lima hardly left the nest unattended and both hawks were involved in courtship behavior when not on the nest.
Lima remained sitting on the nest until very late Friday evening, but she finally flew over to Palemale’s roosting tree where before actually seeing it I heard the unmistakable sound of mating. They both slept together in the same tree that night (March 25th).
http://www.palemale.com/
thanks for the Palemale update Sue. I’m always interested in their lives.
Recently released IRS statistics indicate that the federal government increased their audits of America’s richest taxpayers — those with incomes above $10 million — by 75 percent last year. Nearly one in five — 18.5 percent — of America’s richest households dealt with an audit. In 2009, the Global High Wealth Industry’s first year of operation, the IRS audited only one in ten of America’s richest taxpayers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/27/irs-audits-richest-americans_n_840627.html
Didn’t the IRS increase audits of middle income earners under Bush?
By watching one wild hawk be a wild hawk, and doing it very consistently for many years, (and of course being a really good photographer) Lincoln has added a great deal to everyone’s knowledge of what a wild hawk actually does. And now we learn that Palemale appears to be having a midlife fling.
They weren’t my dog in the hunt but my hat’s off to the VCU Rams who are going to the Final Four.
As a former ‘hawk I gotta say Kansas has a bad habit of losing their focus in NCAA playoff’s. No one who follows them is surprised. :fustrate: