Wildlife: We have a CHAMPION! A Red-Headed Duck mom proudly escorts a dozen lively chicks around Middle Foy's Lake, and sometimes parks them in a long row on the log by our bedroom.



Visit: A Tale of Two Movies

Weather: Alternating sun in the AM, with rain in the PM. We are just barely able to plant a garden.

Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site is trying to give over 2 million bowls of food this month.

Media Watch: The Big Bang, by Simon Singh -- I saw him on CSPAN a few months ago. His book is a decent chronicle about major aspects of scientific history, especially when they relate to Cosmology.
Singh paints a sympathetic portrait of steady-state advocate Fred Hoyle, who ironically coined the term Big Bang while trying, in vain, to discredit George Gamow's 'dynamic universe' theory.
I enjoyed Hoyle's S-F novel The Black Cloud when I was in fourth grade. I was also too old for his style of storytelling by fifth grade. He was a lousy novelist, I must say, but seems to have been a witty, engaging person, and a great scientist, who could have been even greater by admitting defeat when one or two of his many useful theories were proven wrong.
NBA Finals -- San Antonio absolutely dominated Detroit in the first two games. I know those events are past history now, but it looks bad for the champs as they head home to Michigan. (Last year's losing coach, Phil Jackson, is building a fancy house near Flathead Lake, but has signed with the L.A. Lakers again.)