I've heard this before about squirrels in the UK. I suppose beauty is a personal thing...I do not find the red squirrel with ear tufts to be all that adorable. They are nice and an oddity for me, but I find the Grey Squirrel, Cat Squirrel, and the Fox Squirrel to be much cuter. We also have a grey Albert's Squirrel with those ear tufts, but for me they are also more of a curiosity rather than they are a pretty squirrel.

Albert's Squirrel

I live only about an hour from Houston (northeast of Huntsville). Saturday AND Sunday we only got 1 inch of rain all together. Lots of thunder boomers but we haven't been getting much rain for a long time. I was hoping we'd get at least 3 inches. For some reason, the rain always tends to break up on the outskirts of Trinity and resumes on the other side of Huntsville. But Texas is like that.

That really is a wonderful idea, however, these are something from either Canada or from Ohio, and I currently live in Texas. Museums here will not have anything to match. I pretty much have to make contact with someone of general knowledge who does this and sees things like this regularly, or I need to connect with a college with a department that is studying Native artifacts and wants to look at them.

Thanks. That's a start.

Does anyone have any idea who and how to contact someone who can authenticate, and identify possible date and area of origin for Native artifacts? I have been writing to Universities asking for help for many years and have yet to receive anything back from them showing any interest in even looking at my photos. My father claimed to have found them about 1933 and they are remarkable. He passed them on to me with little explanation of how he came to have them but he said he got them at the age of 16 one summer when his father ordered him to working on a distant relative's farm to "build character."

They grew wild in my backyard when I lived in San Antonio. I didn't water them and they sprung up everywhere. They didn't get red at Christmas and that's probably because they weren't potted and didn't get hauled inside to force the color change but I know they are normally comfortable in dryer climates.

I've been looking at Nikon D810, 36mp cameras lately so I'm confused...this one offered is running near $2700 new, so what is off about this deal?

I'm not smart about computers so this may be worth nothing, but I had this happening to my laptop. Called my son who is an IT. He quickly figured out that I had 2 antivirus programs running at the same time and they were in conflict. Apparently, I didn't realize my laptop came with an antivirus program installed, and I thought I was doing a good thing by installing the subscription program I had on my former laptop. I turned off the real time on one of them and the problem was solved.

lamiaceae, is your avatar of a Walker Hound? I wondered because it looks so very much like my daughter's Tree Walker Hound.

Look on Amazon. I just found the kit she got me: Environmental Technology 8-Ounce Kit Lite Pour-On, High Gloss Finish
by Environmental Technology
$13.79

My sister sent me a small kit for $20. I can mix it as I need it and save the rest for other projects. I don't know where she found it tho. Check with a hobby shop.

This would have been my suggestion. I do many projects with this product. I do start with Modge Podge and I use a soft non-synthetic brush to apply it. When dry, a quick coat of polyurethane and then the Enviroex. BTW, that can also be gently brushed on - doesn't have to be poured - and it will still self level if you act quickly.

Easy one. I have them all over the place here...The worst are the Asps, but they are all nasty.

I raised and rescued pigeons. I've got lots of photos of chicks. They are so ugly they are cute.

Anders took it and two others.