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Some thoughts from today's 16-10 Green Bay Packers' win over the Indianapolis Colts at Lambeau Field. Maybe the Packers' season isn't over with after week 1 after all . The Packers dodged a bullet with Jordan Love, who hopefully will be back from a knee injury by week 4, if not next week. However, they couldn't afford to go winless without him and this was a big team victory as a result. The game plan was a good one. The Colts were starting to shut down the run-heavy offense by the second half but with Malik Willis being thrust into a starting role when he wasn't even with the team in preseason, it was the right decision. Willis only had to throw 14 times and was able to play to his strengths. I would assume they will depend on his arm a bit more if he's forced to play next week though. Speaking of the run game. That was as dominant of a performance as you could expect to see in the first half. Imagine how dangerous that group of running backs will be when

I repositioned the trail camera last night, same tree but a different angle, since I didn't see anything on it the past couple days. It seems to have worked because I had multiple videos of the local opossums as they came to visit. Here are a couple of them. And before anyone asks, I also realized the time stamp has the wrong year. It probably reset after I checked the batteries.

Synopsis: Kate Hibbert has a habit of disappearing for weeks at a time so, when Lochdubh's newest resident goes missing, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth isn't immediately worried, even after Kate's cousin, Diane, visits him in person to express her concerns. When Hibbert's body turns up in a lake, Macbeth discovers evidence suggesting Hibbert had been blackmailing many of the local residents. In addition to having plenty of suspects and possibly needing to arrest one of his friends, Macbeth has another issue. His nemesis, DCI Blair, has been put in charge of the case and he has a new assistant, Davey Forbes, who may be spying for Blair. Review: After being left saddened by the end of Death of a Green-eyed Monster , I was a little hesitant to read the next book in the Hamish Macbeth series, Death of a Traitor . However, mostly out of curiosity and a desire to see a happier ending, I checked it out at the library. Unfortunately, while this book ended on a higher note than the p

I caught myself doing something interesting today. Apparently, and I just realized this was the case, I have a habit of telling the various animals, insects, etc. I photograph "thank you," each time. Well, maybe not all of them, just the cooperative ones. Still, knowing they probably don't understand me, I guess I'm just that polite of a guy. Then again, maybe it helps with karma and ensures some of them will pose for me, as was the case today, when I had plenty of reasons to say thank you. Here are some of the photos:

I didn't get anything as exotic as the fox I captured on the camera a couple nights ago, but it was still fairly busy in my backyard yesterday evening, late last night and early this morning. This included multiple visits from the opossums in the neighborhood as well as a cat that occasionally shows up back there (I still don't know if it is a stray or if someone is just letting it out at night). Here are some of the 100+ photos that were taken.

 I wasn't sure if I was going to go for a walk today because of the rain we had last night and uncertainty about how wet it would make the trails and how many mosquitoes I'd be contending with. I did go out, however, and found a few photos while doing so. Here are some of them: