Tuesday, July 12, 2005
A couple of creepy things
Yesterday was hot again, well over 90 degrees F at home, only 82-85 or so in downtown Duluth. My poor little animals were overheated by the time I got home from work. I had stopped to buy groceries, making my all-time record for food spending! But I had to get dog food, ferret food, laundry soap, spot cleaner, calcium vitamins plus all the food, so it added up.
Once I got home I took the ferrets outside in the shade and sprayed them with the garden hose. They really enjoyed that and came happily back to life. Poor Ricky (chinchilla) doesn't like to go outside so I moved his cage to right in front of a fan. It's SO warm in the house, unbearable. I also watered the garden and my flowers as soon as I got home and had put the groceries away. In fact I have the little ferrety guys outside right now to cool off before I go to work.
While I was carrying the groceries in from the car I saw a snake! It was the kind I had as pets when I was a child. It was almost as long as my arm and had a lump in the middle. It sure hope the lump wasn't that frog I had seen on the lawn a few weeks ago. I hadn't seen either frogs or snakes in my yard before. Both have become more rare since I was a kid.
Yesterday was the first day in quite a while that I could hardly wait to get in to work! And it was a Monday! Bet you can guess why--it's cooler downtown and there's a nice lake breeze, plus the office has AIR CONDITIONING!!!
Tonight is the cemetery tour of the "poor house" cemetery. It will be interesting. Speaking of interesting, yet ghoulish, follow this link to a really creepy sort of game/activity. It's called Never Ending Fall" You get to move a limp body that's falling by clicking and moving your mouse. Sound horrible? It is, but fascinating in a weird way, too. Give it a try when you're bored
There was yet another accident on the way to work yesterday. The freeway came to a standstill. I went out into the shoulder and to an exit, where I escaped. By the time I drove through a whole lot of nasty road construction and city buses stopping at every block, I think I would have been better off just staying in the car pack. At least I had good music! And I wasn't late to work.
Bird Calls
For forty years we have studied bird calls . There are so many different species , and to make it more difficult they have territorial accents just like people do.
The really amazing thing is, we have translated all of their calls. And the message is always they same . No matter the breed or the location, the message is always the same: "Yah yah yah! Cats can't fly!"
Marriage is Bliss...
At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."
A lady inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Husband Wanted". Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: You can have mine."
When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.
A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished.
A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" Father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."
Young son: "Is it true Dad, that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?" Dad: "That happens in every country, son."
Then there was a woman who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then, it was too late."
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
First guy: "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are attractive to the opposite sex.
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
Once I got home I took the ferrets outside in the shade and sprayed them with the garden hose. They really enjoyed that and came happily back to life. Poor Ricky (chinchilla) doesn't like to go outside so I moved his cage to right in front of a fan. It's SO warm in the house, unbearable. I also watered the garden and my flowers as soon as I got home and had put the groceries away. In fact I have the little ferrety guys outside right now to cool off before I go to work.
While I was carrying the groceries in from the car I saw a snake! It was the kind I had as pets when I was a child. It was almost as long as my arm and had a lump in the middle. It sure hope the lump wasn't that frog I had seen on the lawn a few weeks ago. I hadn't seen either frogs or snakes in my yard before. Both have become more rare since I was a kid.
Yesterday was the first day in quite a while that I could hardly wait to get in to work! And it was a Monday! Bet you can guess why--it's cooler downtown and there's a nice lake breeze, plus the office has AIR CONDITIONING!!!
Tonight is the cemetery tour of the "poor house" cemetery. It will be interesting. Speaking of interesting, yet ghoulish, follow this link to a really creepy sort of game/activity. It's called Never Ending Fall" You get to move a limp body that's falling by clicking and moving your mouse. Sound horrible? It is, but fascinating in a weird way, too. Give it a try when you're bored
There was yet another accident on the way to work yesterday. The freeway came to a standstill. I went out into the shoulder and to an exit, where I escaped. By the time I drove through a whole lot of nasty road construction and city buses stopping at every block, I think I would have been better off just staying in the car pack. At least I had good music! And I wasn't late to work.
Bird Calls
For forty years we have studied bird calls . There are so many different species , and to make it more difficult they have territorial accents just like people do.
The really amazing thing is, we have translated all of their calls. And the message is always they same . No matter the breed or the location, the message is always the same: "Yah yah yah! Cats can't fly!"
Marriage is Bliss...
At a cocktail party, one woman said to another, Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."
A lady inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Husband Wanted". Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: You can have mine."
When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.
A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished.
A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" Father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."
Young son: "Is it true Dad, that in some parts of Africa a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?" Dad: "That happens in every country, son."
Then there was a woman who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then, it was too late."
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
First guy: "My wife's an angel!" Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."
Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are attractive to the opposite sex.
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep.
