I walked a little too far, a little too fast, on Friday and have been feeling unreasonably tired again all weekend, but I'm starting to feel less tired than before, so no worries.
Animals
This web site has just adopted a virtual guard burro.
(Photo from Google.)
I don't know its gender but its name is Lily White, because...
Though I personally don't own one, I can now speak for the web site, according to the Rule of Perfect Auntliness, and advise the bitter clingers to glyphosate to kiss my Lily White Ass.
Burros are not perfect guard animals. They are pretty good at defending themselves from coyotes if they can see them coming. Living among wild canines has caused them to evolve a general feeling that nature intended all canines to be doormats, so if they can get at a coyote or even a pet dog they will stomp it into the appropriate shape and level of passivity. Burros like to run with a herd but can become frustrated if the other animals in the field don't include any other donkeys; they have been known to lose patience with sheep and start trampling them into doormats. They usually like horses, cows, goats, and alpacas as company, but they need a different diet from any of those. And, because burros are right about coyotes being enemies, sometimes a pack of coyotes or feral dogs kills a donkey--usually at the cost of one or two of the pack. Nevertheless, burros are reasonably good and cheap guard animals.
Considering everything, this web site has decided to keep Lily White well separated from the Petfinder kitties and pups. LW is free to spend most of its time hanging over the fence and visiting with the burros who frequent the Meow.
Meanwhile, on the Mirror, I found an old photo of a behavioral anomaly:
It's been available online for some time and is for sale as a poster, titled "The Jury Is Out." It shows something that is very rarely seen in nature: Six male and three female cardinals are flocking together even with smaller birds.
This can happen when young cardinals are caught in a snowstorm. Before the spring chicks pair off, they travel as a family group for a few weeks. Siblings find mates and go their own ways. Cardinal couples usually avoid each other and drive smaller birds off their territory once they've found a place to rear their own young, but in the first winter, before they've chosen mates or territories, they can be as mellow as the other little "snow birds" who form big mixed flocks when they have to travel further south during unusually cold or snowy weather.
I've seen my cardinals' brood move out as a family group, here at the Cat Sanctuary. I've not seen them flying south in groups with "snow birds." Usually our young, if any, move out before the snow; most years our adult pair stay through the snow. But a flock of "snow birds" including cardinals does occasionally happen.
National Security
Hoot!
Found on the Mirror. Lens traces it to someone whose Instagram name is Theruralbadge.
Page View Counts
Something went wrong last week. My page view count shot up and, as suddenly, dropped back down. Google's system still highlighted the country where twenty thousand page views had come from, on the little map graphic, but counted it as "Other" on the list. In any case we now know that, when some sort of glitch allowed Russians to visit US web sites for a day, they rushed over here.
Everyone should be reading this web site! Twenty thousand Russians can't be wrong! LOL is ROFL!
Actually, of course, more than twenty thousand humans (of any tribe) have been known to be wrong about the same thing at the same time. I doubt that private Russian people have been consulted about bombing towns, but they do seem to have a high level of Glyphosate Awareness.
Weather, Effects of
To find the video, go to x.com, type @accuweather into the search bar, and scroll down to see the video of gold, blue, and purple flowers in Death Valley.
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