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It would look like this.

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Beautiful day, laughingly called warm (50's) by sun-starved New Englanders. We saw our first red-wing blackbird this week and our first bats tonight. I wore hiking sandals on our dogwalk, but am not putting away the snowboots yet. This isn't my first March in New England.

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This week Boston is being treated to a little thaw. It's supposed to reach into the fifties today, and considering that 30 feels like a heat wave, I expect to see many people in shorts and t-shirts this afternoon. Wise and cynical New Englanders know that the following week, or maybe the week after that, the temperature WILL plummet again, and we ( Read more... )

New spider species discovered in Vietnam. Vietnam is like the new species discovery capitol of the world these days. Now, a new spider's nothing too exciting, they probably find new little ones all the time. But this one's REALLY BIG.

I've seen this picture before:

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