For all these years, I’ve wondered why I get so much spam in my business email account and so little in my personal email account. If spammers just randomly discovered email accounts, over time they’d have discovered both my email accounts equally. When I buy things, I always use my personal email account. (Unless it’s for business, but I don’t buy much for business.) So it doesn’t seem that I’m getting all this spam because I shop on Amazon.com, or because retailers are selling my email address. This has been a longstanding puzzle for me. With absolutely no data or evidence to back up my conclusion though, I think I’ve figured it out. My business email address is published on our work website. We invite people to contact us. Perhaps spammers crawl web pages and pick email addresses off them. They’ve taken us up on our invitation. That would explain it.
Judy’s plant project
All the pieces assembled and ready to go. Two and a half hours later.
Little fairies admiring the bubbling water feature.
Other little critters lurking.
Each of the larger rocks came from somewhere along our summer trip. This rock is from Lake Wohlford.
Leftover plants are stashed in a tray below until they’re needed on another project.
How to kill a Sunday afternoon
If you’re a mockingbird with crested caracaras in the neighborhood.
Summertime
And the cotton is high.
Solution to the puzzle
Little water buckets next to trees for no apparent reason. There are five little buckets spaced around the park.
We can always come up with some kind of explanation for something we haven’t seen before. Our self-imposed rule is that our explanation doesn’t have to be right, it just has to make sense in some way. This time though; nothing. Couldn’t figure it out. We gave up and asked Bob. Turns out, it’s all about the rabbits. And the dripper system. Jackrabbits and cottontails. They’re everywhere. It’s true, we, and Henry, watched those rabbits every day. The park was having trouble with rabbits chewing holes in the drippers that water the trees. Rabbits have to have water, even desert rabbits. Maybe especially desert rabbits. The park solution was to set out water buckets for the rabbits, and keep the water buckets fresh and full. It’s working. They haven’t had any water lines chewed since.
We can always come up with some kind of explanation for something we haven’t seen before. Our self-imposed rule is that our explanation doesn’t have to be right, it just has to make sense in some way. This time though; nothing. Couldn’t figure it out. We gave up and asked Bob. Turns out, it’s all about the rabbits. And the dripper system. Jackrabbits and cottontails. They’re everywhere. It’s true, we, and Henry, watched those rabbits every day. The park was having trouble with rabbits chewing holes in the drippers that water the trees. Rabbits have to have water, even desert rabbits. Maybe especially desert rabbits. The park solution was to set out water buckets for the rabbits, and keep the water buckets fresh and full. It’s working. They haven’t had any water lines chewed since.