Foxed!

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Tess and I found a fox in her pasture this afternoon when we went out. She or he had caught something about the size of a chipmunk, and took off bouncing away from us in a way that more resembled a rabbit than a fox. In the past I've seen them running gracefully and fast, but this was a series of long leaps that really covered ground. I expected it to lead to a quick disappearance, but no. Foxy sat in the northeast corner of the pasture and watched us for a good ten minutes. Tess wasn't very interested and decided to roll in the grass but I was watching back just as intently as I was being watched. Finally the fox took off through the fence and to the the east into the oak woods, still carrying the prey in his/her mouth.

Still debugging small things with the Samba installation on the Alphas, but mostly it's working now. Because I was forced to change the UIC on my personal accounts to make it work, there were a number of nuisance side effects, some of which are still unresolved. In spite of that, I have to say the Alpha systems are amazingly stable and steady runners.

Feels like there might be thunderstorms in the offing, just by the air, but I haven't heard any warnings. Better now than on the weekend.

I need to do some ironing and get to bed. We're having a group photo taken tomorrow morning at work so we can present it to our director on her retirement. I plan to take Argos' head along and offer to hold him like a hand puppet in the photo. He works quite well that way.