Cuts

Bought a new knife the other day, a nice, full tang wooden handle knife made in the UP. It's a pretty nice knife - sometimes quality really shows itself. I decided to test by whittling a branch i found in my backyard.


It's a four-penny car, and the wheels actually roll. Hopefully my next attempt will look a little better.

By the way, that photo is taken underneath the raised floor in WCC's primary server room.

Sounds

Srik-srik-srik, srik-srik-srik. I think that's onomatopoetic for the sound of a squirrel working on a nut. This one is in my back yard; yes, my friend returned.




Later today, on my way to work, i saw this painted turtle trying to make it through the chain link fence. He made sounds like a goose, a mouth-open hiss sound. Maybe he's the Tarzan of turtles - left behind by his parents, he was raised by a flock of wild geese and so only speaks goose. Crazy confused feral turtle.

At home, a few hours ago, i stood but five feet away from the neighbourhood skunk. Tch-tch-tch, i said, but the skunk just looked up, sniffed around, and silently wandered off. Skunk body posture reminds me of Ankylosaurus.

Memories

It's been over a month since my family left.



But there are still little signs of them all around; while hanging out with my mom's cats today, my foot acquired a sequin - i'm guessing from something of my niece's. Maybe i should vacuum my mom's place sometime soon.

Road Hazards

Narrowly missed biking over this frog, over by the UM Art & Architecture Building. I set the little thing into the convenient, small wetland area surrounding the parking lot. Hopefully it will quickly learn that the sidewalk is a dangerous place to be.

Speaking of wetlands, their animals and danger, i signed up to volunteer helping with crocodiles in November. If it pans out, i'll spend two weeks measuring, tagging and gathering other data about Nile Crocodiles in Zambia, along the border with Zimbabwe. After that i hope to make it up north to see my cousin who will be volunteering in Solwezi. And, hopefully, somewhere in there i'll find the time to take a peak at Victoria Falls and raft the Zambezi.