Getting back in the swing...

[alexpgp]

There's been no word back yet on my comments to the freelancer agreement from the prospective client, but that's no reason to let grass grow under my feet.

I really lit a fire under my office chair today and managed to translate about 4700 source words, putting me back on track to finish the current assignment on time. With any luck, tomorrow should be equally productive, which will put me ahead of the game (and wouldn't that be a gas!).

At least the last 20 tweets with "translation" in them are identical (albeit posted from different accounts and citing what I suspect are different affiliate codes). I'm hoping the bollocks-brains behind this campaign finds something else to focus on, and soon.

Shiloh is not pulling at her lead the way she did before our consultation with the trainer, and during most of our walks, said lead is just a flea-pull from being stretched tight, but there is definite improvement.

Apropos of walks, Shiloh and I were, perhaps, the subjects of commentary by what appeared to be a red-tailed hawk (?) a few trees over. I unlimbered my camera and here's what I shot:


I'm such a novice when it comes to knowing anything about birds that it's entirely conceivable my identification is wrong. (Click here to play the bird's cry.)

On the way home, I was surprised to see some small mushrooms growing on dead oak branches in the woods between our property and an adjoining road. They sure do look like members of the Suillus family to me. (Wrong! LJ friend vuzh straightened me out on this. See his comment below.)


It's been raining pretty regularly around our neck of the woods. If this keeps up, this year may turn out to have a fair mushroom season.

Cheers...

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

Last year I attended a seminar on the multitudinous raptors that live in our fine state, and I'm still as clueless as anyone. Usually if you say it's a red-tailed hawk, you're close enough to correct to fool anyone but an academic, so I'd say you're safe! :)

Meanwhile your mushroom isn't a Suillus, it's a polypore. Boletes like Suillus are all terrestrial. I've ID'ed a polypore that looks similar to yours, including that characteristic fringe of spiky hairs lining the cap, but it was long enough ago that I've forgotten what it is! Sorry.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

I checked Arora's Mushrooms Demystified, and it might be that the photo is that of a Polyporus arcularis (Fringed Polypore), which is described as:

CAP 1-8 cm broad, round in outline, convex becoming depressed, vase shaped, or umbilicate; surface dry, golden-brown to dark brown, usually minutely scaly; margin often ciliate (fringed with fine hairs). [...] PORES large (1-2 per mm), angular or hexagonal, white or yellowish; [...] STALK 2-6 cm long, 2-4 mm thick, usually central or slightly off-center, more or less equal, [...] HABITAT: Solitary or in small groups on dead hardwoods.

The description goes on to note that "the small size and fairly large pores plus the typically central stem and frequently ciliate cap margin characterize this attractive polypore."

Close enough for me, for now. Thanks for the correction.

Cheers...

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Dee would know, mycology is one of his hobby specialties.

Nice raptor pictures, I sure do miss that sky!

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

LJ friend vuzh got me off my duff and into one of my references, and the result is in the comment thread.

I find I am really starting to pay attention to the natural world around here, and it's fascinating!

Cheers...