December 28, 2025 Our friend’s new cat, Nora, won’t come out from under the couch. I wanted to help so I gave Nora the CD, Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, hoping to reduce the cat’s tension. Why this piece of music? Because in the reading that I have been doing on sound, music, and […]
November 30, 2025 I need a plan to solve a pest-related problem at FECO. So, I gathered more information and thought through alternative strategies – a good exercise for problem solving in general! San Jose scale (SJS) is a hemipterous (true bug) insect (Comstockaspis perniciosus). Perniciosus … get it? SJS is among the most invasive […]
September 24, 2025 You might be thinking this is about rats No. It’s about squirrels that are driving us bats The squirrels are fat pigs They ate all the figs They are basically behaving like brats To Ravenna Blvd, I pointed the way Hoping that there the squirrels might stay The oaks fill the street […]