Grant Barrett

Linguist, lexicographer, writer, editor, broadcaster

Category: Instagram

Sarah had her high school clarinet repaired, which let Guthrie serenade us with a little “Hot Cross Buns.”
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October 31, 2017
An tenrec, which looks like a hedgehog but isn’t. A good case of convergent evolution.
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October 28, 2017
The humidity is probably 15%, though.
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October 24, 2017
Puppeteer Basil Twist shows off his 27-year-old puppet Stick Man.
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October 15, 2017
I wonder why this clearly undrivable car was in the middle of Polk Avenue. It was gone a half-hour later. Yesterday Sarah saw the same car not far away in a lane of Park Boulevard with a cop and some guy. Must be a story, but what?
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October 14, 2017
Some late-season action on our little pomegranate tree. It was pretty desperate six weeks ago but regular watering has brought it back.
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October 12, 2017
Guthrie and I repaired and painted this tortoise at our new house. His eyes are too white but we feel like the cerulean between his shell scutes (those are the classic scale-like keratin shapes) keeps a bit of his former vividness.
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October 7, 2017
Family Friday at school!
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October 6, 2017
I know it’s about dump cakes. I know. But still.
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October 3, 2017
Neighborhood goat.
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September 30, 2017