Barefoot Gee's

08/31/2026

Love the Dillon’s

08/31/2026

Caddo State Park events

September events are here! Now we just need some fall weather to go with them 🍂

08/31/2026

State Park activities

🎉 Celebrate National Wildlife Day (NWD) and National Public Lands Day (NPLD) all September long with these amazing programs!

🦝 NWD Skins and Skulls: Enjoy an up close, and safe, experience with some of the park's wildlife!

🗑 Hike and Paddle Cleanup: Help keep the park beautiful! All ages are welcome for hike/land trash pickup. Must be 16+ to participate in water cleanup. Kayaks are first come, first serve starting at 9:00 a.m.

🌝 Marvel at the Moon: Be a part of International Observe the Moon Night by joining us for telescope viewing and activities!

📱 NPLD iNat BioBlitz: Bring your phone for this species ID frenzy! Learn to use iNat and submit species that are all collected for conservation science!

🦅 Hawk Watch: Witness the epic hawk migration over the park! We have the potential to see thousands in one day! Ends at 2p if slow, ends at 5p if active.

🐦 Bird Craft: Make pinecone feeders to help fall migratory birds or save it for winter!

More info: https://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/daingerfield/park_events

08/24/2026

08/21/2026

Frog life

Most people know one frog sound and picture one frog. A pond after dark is running a dozen species at once, stacked by size and singing over each other.

🐸 The range alone is staggering:

- The smallest, a little grass frog in the Southeast, is shorter than your fingernail.
- The largest, an American bullfrog, can stretch past eight inches and take down prey as big as another frog — even the occasional small bird.
- The chorus you're hearing is mostly males, each forcing air across its vocal cords into a throat sac that balloons out like bubble gum. A spring peeper the size of a thumbnail can carry over a mile.

Every one of them started as a gilled, plant-eating tadpole and rebuilt itself in the water — growing legs, growing lungs, reabsorbing its own tail, switching from grazing to hunting.

The finished adult is full of strange engineering. It flicks out a sticky tongue faster than muscle alone could move it, on pure elastic recoil. The two bumps behind a toad's eyes leak a bitter toxin — a dog that bites one foams, spits, and never tries again.

And the wood frog does the hardest trick of all. It freezes solid every winter: heart stopped, two-thirds of its body turned to ice. Then it thaws in spring and hops off to breed as if nothing happened.

Some of the voices out there tonight spent the winter frozen through. Now they're the loudest thing in the dark. 🌿

08/20/2026

Bird migration has begun

BIRD MIGRATION! The first bird surge of the season has brought much higher than expected bird activity Monday night. An estimated 232,000,000 birds are on the move, tracked by Doppler Radar moving South/Soutwest at 18 mph around an altitude of 2,100 feet. This data is according to BirdCast shows the highest concentration from the Great Lakes heading south across the Mississippi River Valley!

08/19/2026

Spider facts

The spider in your porch web has no ears. She can't hear you coming at all.

Instead she reads the entire world as vibration — every tremor running through her web and the surface beneath her, picked up by fine sensors on her legs. The web isn't just a trap; it's a sense organ she's spun outside her own body, and she sits at the center reading it like a fingertip.

When it wears out she doesn't patch it. She eats the old silk, recycles the protein inside her, and respins a fresh web, sometimes overnight. That silk, ounce for ounce, is tougher than steel.

And she's almost certainly harmless to you. When doctors track down the sores people walk in calling "spider bites," most turn out to be infections like MRSA, not bites at all. Most spiders can't even break human skin, and they'd flee long before they'd try. Meanwhile she's quietly working through the flies, mosquitoes, and aphids you actually don't want around.

08/19/2026

John 1010 project. Everyone should watch these.

08/19/2026

Drinking pool at the outdoor shower
It’s a hit!!
He can’t quite match that blue.

08/18/2026

The history of Jefferson. Nearby historic town.