While PCC(E) is travelling, I will be posting Hili every day, with occasional additions as the mood (and time) takes me. Jerry will post when he can. For today, however, it’s “just” Hili! – Matthew
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Szaron and Hili are on the track of a talpinid…
Szaron: I can barely wait.Hili: What for?Szaron: When this mole will come to the surface.
In Polish:
Szaron: Nie mogę się doczekać.
Hili: Na co?
Szaron: Kiedy ten kret wyjrzy na powierzchnię.
You know I do like these minimalist Hili Dialogues.
[ sips latte ]
[ adjusts turtleneck ]
Thank you, Matthew.
I just yesterday noticed tunnel tracks in our front yard. Maybe Hili and Szaron could visit here in the States for a few days?
For once I understood everything in a WEIT post.
+1 Ha!
JAC: I am monitoring these comments, from which I glean that the long Hili dialogues I proffer are not wanted. SO BE IT!
I think we need another reader’s poll: long or short Hili Dialogs?
My vote is for LONG!
(Except of course when PCC(e) is otherwise occupied — thank you, Matthew!)
Long, definitely. I think Jerry may have misunderstood Laingholm’s comment.
I vote for long too!
PCC, I very much appreciate all the work you put into the LONG Hili dialogues and I still want them. I didn’t take Lainghold’s and Jim Batterson’s comments as complaints per se, but wry compliments.
I would miss the long-form Hili’s tremendously. IMO, they are an integral part of what makes this site a community. However, if you’ve found them to be too onerous to continue producing, I (and I think most of your regular readers) will understand.
βPer
Jerry (from O’Hare): MOLES SHOULD NOT BE KILLED JUST BECAUSE THEY LEAVE MOUNDS ON THE LAWN. Remember the old Jewish saying, “If you save one life, it’s as if you saved the world entire.”
My grandaughter is just starting college (RPI) and is majoring in Neuroscience. I gave her my copy of your book, “The Idea of the Brain” for a graduation present. I told her about your code book and the upcoming one about the Great Francis Crick.
Any ideas, advice for her?
I’m going to be vactioning with her on Cape Cod next week.
We don’t have moles, which we would never kill even if we did. We have bunnies, bunnies, and more bunnies! Just about every plant in our garden lives in a jail cell—a protective metal plant protector sized for its occupant. It’s the same with our neighbors. (No, they don’t live in jail cells. They, too, have plant protectors!) We just live with the other creatures on our property and enjoy them—even as they mow our Hostas to the ground. By fall the numbers of bunnies declines to just one or two (coyotes, hawks, heat, drought, and, possibly, local pets), and we see few in winter. (These are Eastern Cottontails. They don’t hibernate, but they aren’t all that evident in winter.) Then in spring they burst onto the scene and start the cycle all over again.
My parents had moles in the lawn at the back of the house near Salisbury. Their male Siamese cat used to dig them up, and then settle down to watch them dig themselves back in. I say “them” but it may have been one very unfortunate mole.
He never brought the victim back to the house, unlike the mice, baby rabbits and, once, a baby weasel.
No moles here that I have ever seen, but my late, much loved and much missed male ginger tabby brought home one mouse a night. One time he brought a weasel home, and left it on the deck for me. It was huge, bigger than him, and he was a big cat. There are lots of chipmunks around, but he never bothered with them. Or birds. Mice were absolutely his favourite.
Weasels bigger than cats would be otters, or other even more formidable species.
Wolverines?
(My favourite land mammal. Just putting in a plug for them.)
Thanks Mathew! I’ll miss the boss but in the past you’ve always excelled in your stand in duties.
No idea how I’d start my day without WEIT. It’d be less fun for sure.
best,
D.A.
NYC