🤷‍♀️ If it was a "shutdown hoax" and a "fake Democratic attack", then we really weren't shut down? And there was no attack by the Democrats? (which might be the only truthful thing he has ever said). Yet I couldn't access gov't sites I need for research and my neighbor didn't get their SNAP benefits.

My neighbor spotted 2 sandhills yesterday in a field a few miles from where I live in CT. Every year it seems like a few get lost along the way and pause here. I haven't managed to catch one myself yet.

And there's the advantage to being a flat-bottomed boat - a sweet slide on by.

Gotta love the slap you in the face common names.

That might be the clearest quartz I've ever seen.

So you can be swimming with the fish or swimming with the fishes, depending on where your are swimming.

My absolute favorite songbird.

...but I also spotted a bunch of massive snails in the shallows of our little patch of beach. Didn't get an ID but wonder now if they were one of the invasives. (Also didn't get swimmers itch but I mostly SUP'd, not swam).

Basic earth science.

This wins!

31 years and that's been me every day so far this year.