Filthy dogs run home

There’s nothing like an invigorating run after a good wallow in the swamp! Wait for it….


Video of Yellow Dog and Brown Dog
by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 May 2011.

Roll credits:

Yellow dog is normally actually yellow:

Brown dog does normally have her tongue hanging out like that:

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Snake of the night

The dogs found this, about one foot from the house:

Yep, it’s a timber rattler. You can’t see the rattles in this picture (although you can in these other ones by Gretchen), but it had three.

So I put it in a box. It didn’t like that: it really rattled. We drove it to a better spot in the woods, where it’s very happy now.

Good dogs, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog! They notified us but did not try to bite the snake.

Pictures by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 June 2011.

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Update 8:45 AM 3 July 2011: Fixed picture link and added link to flickr set with Gretchen’s additional pictures.

Is there zucca in there?

Italian pumpkin-like squash:

Looks like a watermelon, tastes like a pumpkin. Big plant, no vegetable yet. Oddly thriving in drought conditions.

Pictures of Gretchen Quarterman inspecting zucca at Okra Paradise Farms by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 21 June 2011.

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