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Bad weather has taught me several lessons:
Downy woodpeckers fancy themselves as firefighters. Most of our feeders hang from a tall, skinny metal pole with a crossbar. Our downies – both male and female – love to land near the top of the pole and slide 2 or 3 feet before hopping over to the suet cage. When they’ve had their fill of suet, they take a flying leap to the mixed seed diner for dessert.
Occasionally they visit the pole just to enjoy the slide. Then you can almost hear them laughing and shouting “Wheeeeee…”
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Two men have entered pleas in the death of a man found under a bathtub in South Carolina.
The latest Pacific storm that brought heavy rain, hail and snow to Southern California is heading east, but the mudslide threat is not over for communities below wildfire-scarred mountains.
China declared a new food-safety campaign Wednesday after contaminated milk products from an earlier scandal showed up repackaged in several places around the country, exposing weaknesses in the country's promise to stop such problems from happening again.
