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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals, by Laurie Zaleski

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I really enjoyed this.  I sometimes wished it were a little more about the animals and the running of the Funny Farm, but the family history...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Vanishing Treasures; a Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures, by Katherine Rundell

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  Very well written, very interesting.   I loved the weaving of biological facts with the myths we've developed around these creatures a...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Stranded, by Melinda Braun

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  I enjoyed this.   I'm a sucker for man vs nature and working-together-to-survive books, and this delivered. I did find a lot of thin...
Friday, July 18, 2025

My tribute to the North Rim

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I am devastated by the loss of the Grand Canyon Lodge and all the other buildings destroyed at the North Rim by the Dragon Bravo fire.  We d...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Backpacking Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon--Day 3--Cottonwood to North Rim

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Day 3:  Cottonwood Campground to North Rim Campground, May 14, 2025 (the day BEFORE the North Rim opened) The morning view from my campsite:...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Phoenix, Arizona vs Vsetin, Czech Republic

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 I don't think I really need to say much more: Left:  South Mountain Park, Phoenix (admittedly not in the lushest of seasons, but...it...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Backpacking Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon--Day 2--Ribbon Falls

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Day 2:  Ribbon Falls, Wall Creek, and rest day at Cottonwood Campground, May 13, 2025 I reserved two nights at Cottonwood, partly on the off...