Volume 15 , Issue 15

NW Okie's Corner

We are still watching the raccoons here in the southwest Rockies of Colorado, North of Bayfield, with our IP Dlink 5222L survielance camera, as the raccoons raid the leftover bird seeds dropped during the day by the birds that have been gathering. It is becoming an interesting study, to say the least.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 15 April 1913

One hundred years ago today The Washington herald, dated Tuesday, 15 April 1913, page two, the headlines read: "Nominating Speeches of DAR Tonight Will Bring Climax Nearer."

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Duchess of Weaselskin

This was the last of the sightings of the two coons seen in the early morning hours of 14 April 2013, at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir, North of Bayfield, Colorado. you can see more of the semi-unscientific study of raccoons at the "Raccoon Diner" at the North end of Vallecito at our Okielegacy YouTube site.

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Raccoon Diner Special: Peanut Butter Balloons Go "POP"

It was 12 April 2013, that we set the "Raccoon Diner Special" with Balloons smeared with peanut butter, around 9pm, MDT. That same evening a couple of raccoon made their rounds at 11:48pm (12 April 2013), and a short visited at 12-midnight (13 April 2013). Also, we noticed visits at 12:54am and 12:58am, with at least one of the raccoons making sniffings at balloons, while walking around the stump where the balloons were tied down.

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Calfpasture Families of Bath & Highland County, Virginia

From the "Annals of Bath County, Virginia," by Oren Frederic Morton, on page 169, mentions the Calfpasture families and their prominent part in settling the valleys of Bath and Highland counties. Afterward those of Greenbrier and Pocahontas, helped to people the uplands of the Carolinas.

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We Are Women In Numbers Too Big To Ignore

This goes out to all those women out there gathering to let their voices be heard.Women need to hear more encouraging songs like these!

"Oh yes I am wise / But it's wisdom born of pain / Yes, I've paid the price / But look how much I gained / If I have to, I can do anything / I am strong / I am invincible / I am woman / You can bend but never break me / 'cause it only serves to make me / More determined to achieve my final goal / And I come back even stronger / Not a novice any longer / 'cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul.

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Suffragist Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (1858-1928)

Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst (British political activist, leader of the British suffragette movement) was born 1858. Emmeline started the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. The WSPU fought for women's suffrage in England for the next 25 years, sometimes using militant tactics like arson. Pankhurst herself was jailed several times and participated in hunger strikes while in prison.

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