Saturday, September 17, 2011

Slow Saturday Special: Home, Home on the Bay

We have deer here.

"Coyotes lurking in the woods in Massachusetts have been known to attack dogs, chickens, cats, and even, in rare instances, people. But a buffalo?

Tyler Kimball said it actually happened here on his farm in the dark of night on Saturday, when he says a pack of coyotes entered a 9-acre pen where his 14 buffalo grazed. When the coyotes were done, he says, a buffalo was missing....

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I saw a coyote going after a cat one day just before dawn.

Related:

"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam....

The red man* was pressed from this part of the West
He's likely no more to return
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering camp-fires burn....

How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars
Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours.... 

America hasn't exactly been covering herself in glory these many years.

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