I don’t really have time to write a blog post this morning: I have about a yard of manure to move.

Yeah, yeah. Very funny.

Anyway. As long as I went to the trouble of installing the Expression Engine poll module, I might as well use it. Feel free to answer at greater length in comments, or suggest topics for future polls (mind: they don’t have to be serious) or go completely off-topic.

1. 
   connie 2007 04 13 at 2:53:04 pm

   yes - multiple choice would be much better, because I originally came to CRN - oh criminy - I don’t remember why - and got caught up with your hiking, then Zeke, then Zeke and hiking, then just the wonder dog.  yeah, so. let’s go with multiple choice.
   hugs from PA
   connie

2. 
   omegapet 2007 04 13 at 4:53:18 pm

   Yours is the most anti-taxonomical blog I have ever encountered.  Which is one of the reasons I enjoy visiting.
   I mean, come on, the CRN “experience” is:
   “I couldn’t get a decent breakfast in my little town so I went to the dentist and while waiting I was contemplating mammalian phylogeny and was suddenly struck by a new viewpoint on the ancient ancestry of dogs and humans.  Like Zeke!  But the damn dentist’s landlord lets the Scotch Broom and Oaxalis take over the margins of the parking lot [doesn’t he realize how these non-native invasive species disrupt the ecosystem?] so my allergies kept me from blogging about that worthless sexist dipstick over at Daily Kos.”

   Your blog writing can’t be easily classified, categorized, or explained. And despite your title, the creek isn’t a big topic either.  We just enjoy it.

3. 
   Chris Clarke 2007 04 13 at 4:59:54 pm

   OK, the next Friday poll:

   Following Omegapet’s lead, write a “typical CRN sentence.”

   I’ll pick the best, unless there are fewer than ten, and we’ll vote for the winner.

4. 
   Kate Smith 2007 04 13 at 9:27:48 pm

   All of them, that’s what I read. I just visit every day, and whatever’s up, I read. And I thank you for writing.

5. 
   stinger 2007 04 13 at 11:59:49 pm

   I read it all. But I voted for Zeke.

6. 
   Chris Clarke 2007 04 14 at 1:22:15 am

   That was our default guess too, though greyhound snuck into the mix in our minds a lot. He was so slim and so graceful, and had the right snoot, and he could rarely sit for very long unless it was on a soft surface: all greyhound traits.

   Sorry to hear about Chris feeling poorly. Kiss him for me.

7. 
   jeanie 2007 04 14 at 1:46:30 am

   I visit for the encounter. The creek running.
    

   It’s going to be really hard to pick something
   next week.

8. 
   grimalkin 2007 04 16 at 1:55:35 pm

   What mroberts said, followed up in greater detail by omegapet.  I love reading about your hikes, and the insight you add from your knowledge of the natural world is invaluable.

   Since this is a meta-thread, I’ll ask a question that’s been on my mind lately.  What staging area and route do you take up Mt. Diablo to the summit?  For some reason, I think it’s Mitchell, but I’m not sure why I think that. 

   Your posts about hiking Mt. Diablo were the catalyst for my girlfriend and I to start hiking around there about once a month, leaving our normal stomping grounds in the hills just above Berkeley and Oakland.

9. 
   rose 2007 04 17 at 9:29:15 am

   i come here for a bit of my daily bread..