Musings

Tuesday, Apple announced product upgrades…including to AppleWatches. I have last-year’s model, and I’m glad to have it, but I don’t believe it is accurate in recording several data types. For some years, it has been complaining about excessive sound levels nearly every time I take a shower…and at no other time (not that I spend time around amps). I have decided this has to do with water hitting the watch and not the sound in the shower space…so I ignore it.

Posted at 9:18 PM | 2 Comments »

This is from experiments with the photo program.

This is a backlit experiment…with the shadow of another sprig.

Posted at 9:17 PM | Comments Off on Experiments

Species identification quiz: you can see four goats and one sheep. One (small) goat is in the right foreground, and blends with the surroundings. Sheepie is the larger beast near the back.

Posted at 7:12 PM | Comments Off on One goat is off browsing

The gang sure likes to eat this bush. Whatever it is, it’s a volunteer, and scraggly, and I don’t care about it. Today I saw how they’re eating so high up. The medium brown billy with his back to us gets up on his hind legs and brings a branch down, and the pair of smaller goats starts munching on the now low branch. Then, the billy carefully adjusts his hold so he can munch, too.

Posted at 9:49 PM | Comments Off on It takes a (goat) village

Tired. Spacey. Nothing more than that. [Delayed post.]

Posted at 10:22 PM | Comments Off on Speaking truth…

The goats’ real owner came and gave them fresh water this morning.

The troops were happy to see him, even following him when he went back to turn off the spigot.

Goats can go a while on the water they get from the vegetation they eat, so. they don’t drink all that much, but they’re not quite facultative drinkers, like gazelles, which can go much longer. Yet, they don’t drink as often as obligate drinkers, who depend on surface water to stay hydrated. Just some jargon for you, and a bit of info pastoralists have to know.

Posted at 7:38 PM | Comments Off on Goats and water

We made a pre-10am run to Trader José’s while it was relatively calm, before the squadrons of desperate shoppers hit the doors mid-day, then continue in rotation until Monday morning (in our experience, anyway). We discovered that plenty of exercisers visited in the same temporal window…lots of stretchy outfits, etc.

Another goat picture: busy troops.

Posted at 7:05 PM | Comments Off on Neighborhood news

The Kids got all excited when I took the compost out.

Posted at 8:48 PM | Comments Off on Beggars

So, I stepped out onto the balcony late this morning to do a goat-check, even though they’re ranging where I can’t see them (this is a good thing with regard to their goal of vegetation clearing). I indeed couldn’t spot them, but I got to hear a light rain begin. That’s rather a magical moment, when it goes from not raining to raining.

Posted at 8:19 PM | Comments Off on Bewitched by precip

Welcome to goat world. Note that the last few days the goats have done a bit of excavation.

Also, I read an academic article on knots, as a global cross-cultural technology, presented with more detail than I would have believed possible.

Posted at 7:26 PM | Comments Off on Goats n knots