Yolo Bypass area to reopen Saturday

FYI

The Sacramento Bee : Yolo Bypass area to reopen Saturday

Checking out Davis Life Magazine

Just a quick post here - haven't posted to my Davis blog in a while but have been looking at Davis Life Magazine and like it a lot. Worth a look for Davisites out there.

Salt-loving microbe forges its own path : Nature News

Haloarcula morismortui has novel carbon processing pathwaysSalt-loving microbe forges its own path : Nature News

Ooh - Science Quiz Show for the Explorit Museum in #DavisCA #ScienceIsFun

Quick link here --- for those in the Davis area interested in science in any way you might want to check out the upcoming Explorit quiz / game show/ challenge. October 7 2010 at Freeborn Hall.

2010 Science Challenge — Explorit Science Center

Yay: #DavisCA police come through quickly on issue of dangerous signs

So , Saturday I got really annoyed with some unsafe street signs in Davis. I wrote some emails to the police and some realtors. I took pictures. I posted a blog post. And so on (see blog here - Davis, CA: Getting more and more annoyed with dangerous Real Estate signs in #DavisCA). Basically, the issues were realtors putting their open house signs in the street and some others putting signs in areas to block the view of oncoming traffic.

And though I got a response from one of the realtors, it was not very convincing. Thus I was more than pleased this AM to get an email back from the Davis Police Department in response to the emails I had sent in to policeweb@cityofdavis.org

And they said two things. First, they had talked to the manager of the apartment complex that had been placing a sign obstructing traffic and the manager was taking it down. And the police were going to send an email to all realtors in the area reminding them that placing their signs in the street or other public right of way was illegal. May seem like a small thing to many, but I have seen a few near crashes due to the realtor signs and worried about crashes due to the apartment sign. And thus to have these issues fixed so quickly made my day.

I must say, I have had nothing but good interactions with the Davis Police when I have sent questions or emails to their non emergency email address.

Burrowing Owls on Wildhorse Ag Buffer Trail

In addition to the crawdads, the burrowing owls have been out in full force on the Wildhorse Ag buffer trail recently. There are at least 20 if not more living in the tunnels along the trail. Always entertaining.

More crawdad fishing in Wildhorse Creek, Davis, CA

Here are some pictures from another night of crawdad fishing. We have been going for some walks along the Wildhorse Ag. Buffer trail at night and keep coming upon a few families fishing for crawdads in the creek. This night, they also had one of their cats with them. It was quite entertaining, with the kids lowering McNuggets into the creek and reeling up crawdads in seconds. Then they dumped out the bucket and watched them crawl back to the creek.