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Hummingbird feeding

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Image hummingbird feeder

We are into the second week of our hummingbird feeding season of 2019. After the disappointing garden season that diminished our humming-bird-attracting flowering plants, we have been discouraged. Hate to say it but, our excuse is “the deer ate our hostas!”

The wild flowers that attract the birds are also disappointing us, fewer in number and smaller in size than what has been typical.

We have had a regular couple of birds visiting from the very start. We are using brother Tom’s home-made sugar drink. Do we have any photos? No. The visits do not coincide with camera location or readiness. The birds are coming by between dawn and dusk; at some point, a prepared stake-out should allow us to capture some shots.

When Ensign Gregory (the other one) went to the sub-base

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From the archives is this curious testament of Davy Jones and the U.S. Navy welcoming a certain Ensign Gregory to the U.S. Navy’s submarine base at New London, CT, in ?

No date. One of the rules I learned from years with this ensign was to date everything. No date. Nothing on the back. Will take a bit of research to determine the years he was an ensign; will eventually get a date range. In the boxes in the archives, perhaps a piece of paper will document a more precise date.

Don’t wait up for this.