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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I lived at home, too, so I didn't have to deal with all the dorm stuff. I liked having my privacy! Back then, of course, they had curfews, so I didn't have to deal with those, either. Of course, that also meant that I was always available to work the late shift at the Burger King!
I’m finally trying to get my butt back in gear to take my last classes for my masters’. If nothing else, it would let me teach at community colleges...
He eventually wants to transfer. But this is a good start for him.
West Nile hits the blue jays and the crows, none of the ~nuisance~ birds (starlings, grackles, pigeons) seem to be bothered by it. We've not seen many blue jays around here since 2002 when West Nile hit the Kansas City area but the crow population started coming back last year.
West Nile hits about 200 species of birds, just about any bird except trash birds. The state just glossed over that part. A few years back, I'd find 2 or 3 dead goldfinches or housefinches a day. Now they're back to their regular numbers, and no more bird deaths to any causes except normal predation.
Doesn’t sound too bad for Vansama! Also, since you’re not using him as much right now, it will help him last a little longer!
I'd often thought that Edgar Allan Poe must have been on some real drug bender to have imagined a raven saying "Nevermore". That is until we moved here. Those dang crows are as big as some of the wild turkeys, and are so loud, I don't wonder how Poe could have imagined that anymore!
He could do the Govt. at home, but he'll be finishing his Amer. History at home, and doing a HUGH literature program based on Lord of the Rings. It is my hope we'll be down in MS by January, and if so, he can take Physics and Economics at the CC there in the Spring Semester.
Izzit raining?
Currently in Ocala, FL
Fair 95°F
Feels Like 105
Had 2 times the normal rain in July, but earlier it had been very dry.
...employee discounts on ammo...
I had no idea it hit so many different species of birds, winmag! We were just told about blue jays and crows, and I didn’t notice any decrease in my housefinch or sparrow population. The only dead birds I ever see are the headless bodies left when the grackles decide their young need more protein :(
I just had to laugh, I guess they are nuisance birds, but I just love crows. They are so bold, and some of them get huge!! I can always count on the crows to ~remove~ the wildlife roadkill Gypsy and I see on our walks.
Jays, Crows and Ravens are in the same family as Magpies, they are all great talkers, if slightly slower learning then parrots. That is probably why Poe used the Raven in his poem (Parrots would be much less sinister, IMHO)
Their close connection probably explains West Nile hitting them in the same way.
It was the same here, until about six months into the onslaught, when they started mentioning, "oh, yeah, about those other birds ...."
It’s not raining now... it misted a little on my way back from town... not even enough to call it drizzle. What time do you get off?
I get off at four today. I still have to call and see how things are goin’, but they did say it’d be done today.
Oh - well... what would you like... a ride? Or to ride? :~)
I’ve been asking myself that question all day.
I guess since I have the bike and it isn’t raining, I don’t have any excuse not to just ride back. So I guess I’m OK. I was worried it’d be harder to find a back way to the shop, as riding on Capital Blvd. without a bike lane during the busy times of day isn’t my idea of fun. But there’s a back way that’s a little twisty but pretty quiet.
But I still wanna buy pizza one of these days. ;-)
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