Running Deer in Olympics
I came across an interesting article about an Olympic sport back in 1908 and 1920. It is about the “sport?” of shooting running deer.
The story is actually about Oscar Swahn, a Swedish shooter at age 60, who participated in the London Olympics in 1908. He won two gold medals and a bronze. Then in 1920, at age 72, he won a silver medal in the double-shot running deer competition.
He still is the oldest gold medalist in the Olympics. Let’s hope the “deer” was a paper target or stuffed deer and not a live one!
Mild Winter
Well, okay, winter is not quite finished with us yet, but March 20th is not far away. I think our nice neighbor used his snow-blower and leaf-blower three times on our driveway. It seemed the heavy snow storms went either north or south of us. Whatever, thanks Mother Nature for a mild and fast winter.
That Midwest Mom
You will find her on Facebook and she is hilarious. She gives cooking lessons, but pokes fun at what ingredients might work or just “punt!”
She is a Minnesota gal and sometimes brings on her funny accent. Like, “Yeah, sure; yeah betcha!”
One time she sang a song and “wow,” talk about a beautiful operatic voice! She is the real deal. Check her out!
April Hummers
The little hummingbirds might just make it up to our neck-of-woods by next month. Make sure to clean your feeder both inside and outside every so often.
Yellow bee guards are nice to have on the feeder. Although sometimes even those can be overwhelmed by so many bees.
Birds on the Decline
According to scientists, 2.9 billion birds are gone since 1970. Birds, except waterfowl, have been on a steady decline. Loss of habitat is one of the problems.
We feed birds throughout the year, but I can’t say either way that there are more or less birds. Baltimore Orioles don’t stick around very long, but our neighbors have better luck. Grape jelly and oranges are what they like, but it’s rare when we see one at our “BO” feeder.
We did have a new winter visitor at our feeder. It was a northern flicker. Beautiful bird. He and two red-breasted woodpeckers trade off their time chowing down on the suet cakes.
Lookout WW2 Japanese Dogs
Towards the end of WW2 the population of the Japanese species of dog, Akitas, had become almost extinction with only 16 dogs left.
In 1944, Japanese people were killing their Akitas and selling the pelts to Japanese soldiers for warmth plus also as a food source.
Humor
I have a great dog. She is half Labrador, half pit bull. It’s a good combination. Yes, she might bite your leg off, but she will bring it back to you.
Quote
“The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.”
James F. Bymes