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Another busy day
May. 19th, 2012 10:46 pmThe weather was lovely though, if a bit warm.
Topped it all off with a brilliant concert by the Lake Geneva Symphony in which we heard Walton's "Crown Imperial," Elgar's Cello concerto, Arnold's "Four Scottish Dances" and Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" and "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets. Excellent stuff, even if Mars is a bit hard on the ears with all those drums.
Today saw the biggest opossum I've ever seen in my life. It must have weighed well over 20 pounds and was poking around behind the arena. We scared it off, hopefully, though it only ran into an old logpile left by the previous owners. I don't care one way or another about opossums except that they're ugly and I don't want them to contaminate my hay. They can carry a parasitic protozoan that causes nasty effects in horses. They've also been known to carry rabies, though the only reported rabies in our county this year was in a bat if I recall correctly what the vet said.
Tomorrow Gary wants to go to an open house of the Kishwaukee Valley & Eakin Creek Model Railroad Club over in Huntley. They have running layouts in four scales: G, O, HO, and N.
Topped it all off with a brilliant concert by the Lake Geneva Symphony in which we heard Walton's "Crown Imperial," Elgar's Cello concerto, Arnold's "Four Scottish Dances" and Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" and "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets. Excellent stuff, even if Mars is a bit hard on the ears with all those drums.
Today saw the biggest opossum I've ever seen in my life. It must have weighed well over 20 pounds and was poking around behind the arena. We scared it off, hopefully, though it only ran into an old logpile left by the previous owners. I don't care one way or another about opossums except that they're ugly and I don't want them to contaminate my hay. They can carry a parasitic protozoan that causes nasty effects in horses. They've also been known to carry rabies, though the only reported rabies in our county this year was in a bat if I recall correctly what the vet said.
Tomorrow Gary wants to go to an open house of the Kishwaukee Valley & Eakin Creek Model Railroad Club over in Huntley. They have running layouts in four scales: G, O, HO, and N.
