Author: Steve

What else can I add to compost to make it even better?  Something to spice it up?

I know!  Ungulate poop!

What is herbivore poop anyway, but compost with a head start?  It’s already been digested!  And, lucky me, I happened to have a poop bag already in my pocket.

I think this is Nilgai scat.  That’s a large Indian continent antelope that has established a self-sustaining wild breeding population here in South Texas.

(Not my photo)

A fresh batch of compost underway.

Add a little scat.

Close it.  Give it a couple turns.  And all mixed in!

It’s running hot already.

Yearning to be free!

Pick your spot.

Grab a blanket (or towel).

And have that nap!

Enjoyed following the Texas Longhorns all season.  They had some exciting ups and downs.  They started out unranked, but finished up number 21.  Tried following CU, but that wasn’t quite so engaging.  Maybe next year with Deion Sanders as coach though.  He’s already landed some top players to bring with him.

Texas got a bowl game, the Alamo Bowl, but their two super stud running backs, Bijon Robinson and Roschon Johnson, didn’t suit up because both have declared for the NFL draft and didn’t want to risk injury.  The game felt a little flat without them.  A win for the Washington Huskies.

Bowl games can be ho-hum if the teams aren’t that good, or we don’t have a vested interest.  It’s always interesting to watch the four best teams play each other for the National Championships though.  We got to root on an underdog team from Texas in the Fiesta Bowl tonight.  That was a heckofa game.  We felt bad when the Longhorns lost to TCU during the year, but the Horned Frogs sure are the right team to be in the National Championships!

Well, still more time to football on.

Happy New Year!

Like an explosion, all the little birds scatter and disappear in an instant.

One bigger bird lands in the tree.

Coopers Hawk.  It eats birds. 

There’ll be no sign of the little ones again for quite a while.