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George Host

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RealLiveScientist (Forest Ecologist, Botanist, Mycologist, PhD, pubs and all that). Decent Geocacher, Marginal Curler, Master Gardener. Mushroom hunter and grower. Assorted stringed instruments.

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Got one! I didn’t even know Skype was still around!

07.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome, how do I get one?

07.03.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Have a shirt in male xl?

07.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy 100th Alan Greenspan! I’m rationally exuberant. #Fed #Marketplace

07.03.2026 00:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Et tu, CJ? πŸ”ͺ

06.03.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun fact, I TA’d for Ralph Dexter, who monographed fairy shrimp, extant and extinct. Most of this was driving the ornithology van and telling students to quit lighting up in the back.

06.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s an above average hot dish.

04.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Minnesota: Oh Jeez, plant some natives, ok then?

04.03.2026 02:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would always play the Jeopardy theme at the start of a midterm. I’m the only one who thought that was amusing.

04.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like he’s wearing David Byrne’s big suit.

04.03.2026 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Period after et al? You dug your grave, gotta… ah you know the drill.

03.03.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Summarizes academia pretty well.

02.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I had a nickel for every time I made a quad I’d have… no nickels.

02.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Depends on the typo. If it’s it’s, well of course.

02.03.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

7. Isn’t that the number of wars Trump has stopped? Or started, I’m kinda losing track. Sorry to have brought that up, LOST is a pleasant diversion and more realistic.

02.03.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok before looking I got no’s 2&3 right. My first guess was Great Gray Owl, which I like cuz it’s works with the habitats. More riddles please, you can write anytime!

02.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Moonrise

Moonrise

Tell the Moondog, Tell the March Hare

02.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Deer and turkeys at feeders

Deer and turkeys at feeders

4 squirrels, 3 deer, 8 turkeys, it’s a friggin menagerie around here this morning #wildlife #March

01.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Flock of turkeys at feeder

Flock of turkeys at feeder

The breakfast club is here

01.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit! πŸ‡

01.03.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, -8F. Sunny tho

01.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tomorrow might be one of our last below zero mornings here in Duluth. β„οΈπŸ‘

01.03.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Turkey tracks in snow

Turkey tracks in snow

Our morning visitors have left for the day

28.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not again! Ok turn around…

28.02.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Except for Host and Pregitzer CJFR 22:10, that’s immortal 😊

28.02.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Quoting my Calm app, take a deep breath. Then take another one. In a couple decades you and I and our publications will be in the dustbones of history.

Oh wait, that doesn’t seem helpful. K take a brief break, the world needs help and we got this!

28.02.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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Hello darkness my old friend

#wordle

27.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Could be a Lotka-Volterra cycle, rabbits plunge, foxes plunge, rabbits restore. Just need to avoid that extinction line on the graph. Late night spitballing here…

27.02.2026 04:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well that’s unusual. Don’t they have tarps?

26.02.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t argue with that. Can you borrow me your vice? (spoken in local dialect). 😊

26.02.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0