GeorgiaBeforePeople

I enjoyed reading I, Claudius and Claudius, the God by Robert Graves so much, I decided to read Graves’s memoirs. He fought for the British during all 4 years of World War I, and the experience provides most of the fodder for his memoirs, but he also discusses his childhood. During summers he would visit his German grandfather and uncles. One of his uncles l...

Pre-historic humans used spears and clubs to kill every species of megafauna that lived in South America during the Late Pleistocene. Scientists found compelling evidence at the Taima-Taima site in Venezuela that humans killed at least 5 species of megafauna there. Remains of notiomastodon (Notiomastodon platansis) were the most common butchered animal found here, bu...

I returned home from an afternoon swim the other day and saw a juvenile cat literally eating the heart out of a bird’s chest cavity. She growled. Cats will stiff-arm each other over dry cat food, but they growl and viciously defend real meat. The ravenous cat ate her meal on some pine straw under an old holly bush near my front door. I could not identify what species of bird ...

I almost decided to skip this week’s blog entry because the subject matter is sickening, but I can’t stop myself from standing on my soapbox and yelling my opinion at the world.

Deacon Jim Miller, so named because he was a respected church attending man, was born in 1865. When he was 8 years old, the Sheriff concluded he shot and killed his grandparents and lied abo...