The Retriever, Dog, & Wildlife Blog

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1. on September 4, 2012 at 2:07 am | Reply pitbullmojo

   Glad you are back to normal. I don’t comment often, but I do enjoy this blog and the diversity of the topics. I have learned things that i didn’t even know I wanted to learn.

   
   
2. on September 4, 2012 at 5:48 am | Reply Peter Dawson

   Weren’t there two of you once? I’m amazed at your volume and scope of information, but it must be wearing you out sometimes?

   
   
3. on September 4, 2012 at 10:07 am | Reply Nara

   Well that didn’t take long! :D

   
   
4. on September 4, 2012 at 11:45 am | Reply countrymae

   So glad you are back to normal. Your pace at providing such a variety of topics with research required can burn one out. Hope you find ways to take time outs without losing your input to readers.

   
   
5. on September 4, 2012 at 12:06 pm | Reply Kathy K

   Welcome back!

   
   
6. on September 4, 2012 at 2:05 pm | Reply Suhail

   What? We have to keep putting up with your crazy science?

   ;-)

   
   
7. on September 4, 2012 at 5:43 pm | Reply massugu

   Please define “normal”. (LOL)

   
   
   • on September 4, 2012 at 6:57 pm | Reply retrieverman

     LOL.

     Good to see you can comment again.

     I don’t know what the glitch was.

     
     
8. on September 5, 2012 at 12:13 am | Reply Paula G From Indiana

   I’m glad you’re back!

   
   
9. on September 5, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Reply Jen Robinson

   Can’t think of a more stimulating or challenging blog.
   Glad to see your vacation was brief.
   personally, I can’t believe the amount of time and effort you put into this blog. No wonder you get the hit count you do. Lots of us appreciate and benefit by your efforts, even if all are not up to saying thanks.

   
   
10. on September 5, 2012 at 2:23 pm | Reply Jen Robinson

    p.s. Please don’t return to ‘normal’ as in Homer Simpson opening a beer, sitting in front of the TV, and going blotto. Or, for that matter, any of the other obnoxious ‘normals’ this wide country puts forward.

    pps. On the net, people are often clueless about where one another is coming from. Norms = preconceptions = a priori expectations = prejudices = a built in aspect of human psyche. Both individual and geographic/cultural. You’ve exposed a few personal points of reckoning and a bit of geo-location.
    On the geographical, I’ve never been to W. Virginia. My preconception of WVA is colored by the song writer and folk singer, Jean Ritche (eg. song lyrics: “My daddy said don’t never be a miner” . . .”I used to think my daddy was a black man, with script enough to own the company store” . . . “Born and raised at the mouth of the Hazard Hollow, coal cars rumblin’/rattlin’ past my door, now they’re runnin’ rusty, rollin’ empty . . . and the L&N doesn’t stop her any more” . . . “Kudzu vines all growing up through the door” . . . “The high hills and mountains are where I belong”). Your normal doesn’t match that of Hazard County as represented by a Ms. Ritche . .. .just as it may not be the “Green rolling hills . . . nearest place to Heaven that I know”. It’s good to hear another WVA perspective and to widen the narrowly-based perspective I’ve acquired.
    As for being a kid who liked natural history and books more than sports, etc. . . . that’s home territory.

    I fear I’ve drunk too much and do dribble on . . .

    
    
    • on September 5, 2012 at 7:23 pm | Reply retrieverman

      I am atypical for someone from WV.

      My political views and views on evolution (and climate change) are in the minority.

      I also have nothing to do with coal mining or bluegrass music.

      
      

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