April 23, 2011

White Dog spotted a quail on the sand road leading to Watermelon Mountain Ranch, where Michael volunteers on Saturdays. Puff noted the spot and after we dropped Michael off, The White Dog Army clambered out of Pumpkin and ramped up for some quail flushing fun! It was an overcast, dramatic morning, and the air was heavy...perfect for picking up scents.
White Dog lead TOWD, AWD, and SAWD onto the open plains of the Mesa and started scouting the brush.

Everyone got excited by the smells here, but no quail...
Quinn and his sister scanned the horizon for movement.
The search and flush mission was aborted when it began to rain. The Army looked at White Dog who looked at Steve who asked, "coffee and scones?"


P.S. Answers from Our Earth Day Quiz:
1. Every hour, Americans discard 2.5 million plastic bottles.

2. What is the most recycled item in the U.S? From the household: Aluminum cans; but Steve is also right, lead acid batteries are the most recycled light industrial item.

3. True! The US population discards 16,000,000,000 diapers each year.

4. An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.

5. The united States is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year? This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.

6. About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!

7. True! Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.

8. List one good way to reduce, reuse, or recycle or replenish: We saw lots of good ideas posted on blogs. The point is to do something!