Found this sidebar note in my 2011 journal – “the woolly fetlocks of bison” – no clue – looking further discover – “the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern” – and there is a tuft of hair that grows at this joint – the photo does not show the fetlocks – but it does exhibit some crazy horns.

My serendipitous day continues to the story of the lost camel (The Three Princes of Serendip) – which was based on the life of Persian King Bahram V of the Sassanid Empire – who led me to Voltaire’s detective Zadig – who carried me onto C. Auguste Dupin…

Read a 1969 paper on distribution of grouse dancing grounds (leks) – observed that leks tend to be near windmills – and that if the windmill is moved – the grouse move the lek to the new location of the windmill.

Then I came across this research paper entitled “Wildlife Records from Mail Carriers in April 1947” – apparently in the 1940s the Nebr Game Commission used mail carriers to assist with their annual wildlife counts – they termed it an “inexpensive method of getting extensive state observations” – Braxton said these mail carriers were the first “citizen scientists” of today!

And at home, I had to take the hand vacuum to the freezer compartment of the frig as I knocked the lid off the corn meal (which I keep in the freezer) and it spilled over all the frozen food.