Posted on 08/18/2010 3:00:53 AM PDT by ri4dc
I have long enjoyed Free Republic as a news source, and greatly enjoy the depth of the commentary. I woke up from my political coma, like many Americans, during the 2007 Presidential campaign. I have since been silently witnessing the pain and suffering of our beloved country and liberties. I sincerely want the tide of politics to shift, but fear it too late. Time will show. I hope I can contribute to the FReep discussions intelligently.
Never take me seriously, the last person who did drank coffee brewed to my specifications and they ended up running pell mell away from slobbering zombie deer.
Stop gossiping about me, Darksheare. I thought you were my friend.
*cough*
You were the one who rescued the one running from the zombie deer.
*ultra strong hint about who set the zombie deer in motion*
This morning as I was seeing Hubby off to work, I noticed a black butterfly sitting, wings folded, on the driveway behind his car. Being an enormous softy, I went to rescue it by shooing it away, but it didn't budge. I stuck my finger in its face, and it promptly climbed on my finger and just sat there. For five minutes. It flinched once when I raised my other hand to wave 'bye to Hubby, but it was otherwise content to roost on my finger. Finally, eager to carry on with my chores [cough], I walked over to a tree and gently encouraged my little friend to get on a leaf. It took umbrage and finally flew away.
I have to admit, as far as nature thrills, it was right up there with the kitteh kisses* I got from a tiger at the Akron Zoo one time.
*I narrowed my eyes at the tiger, and it narrowed its eyes back at me. My cats and I do that all the time, and I was very pleasantly surprised that the big cats do it too, and to a total stranger, no less.
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P.S. I need more coffee beans.
Awww!
I have no idea what they are but every spring, we get a horde of tiny little blue-violet butterflies that congregate on the wet ground, sucking up minerals.
Without fail, as soon as they see me, they stop their mineral sucking and mob me.
Having *a* butterfly land on you is a magical experience.
Twenty or thirty of them?
Not so much.
[it reminds me of ‘The Birds’]....:))
I have the same “problem” with ladybugs during their spring and fall migrations.
I’ll go into a store and somebody will mention that there are ladybugs hitchhiking on my head, hair and clothes.
Lazy slobs.
Another entry for the list of things we have in common. Butterfly bait, check.
I would forgive a swarm of blue-violet butterflies anything.
Ladybugs, no. They swarm around here, and I didn’t think that they were so bad in this house when we moved in, until I realized that they totally blend in with the carpet in the basement. When we walked across the floor, the crunchy noise gave them away right after I thought I was having an LSD flashback because the carpet was moving. And I never took LSD.
I thoroughly enjoyed this little diversion. We have a wonderful butterfly display in an AZ outdoor nature museum where the kids can sit while dozens of butterflies will land on them. Once it cools off to at least 98 degrees during the day, we will visit there again. :)
Okay, back to the hazing. ;-)
Ah yes, butterflies are only after us for our warm gooey brains.
Uh oh.
Running out of coffee to fuel the zombie deer herds might be a bad thing.
I do know of one man who by himself took out a zombie deer with nothing more than a rock.
If the slobbering deer hordes grow out of control, summon him.
Well if you’ve given your coffee to the butterflies, and you know about the zombie deer, why didn’t you ping him? Oh very well, I’ll do it myself.
Hi humblegunner.
Sal, Darksheare confessed that he’s the reason you’re having zombie butterflies attacking you.
Nobody knew what would happen to the deer.
Ecological analysts did not know knew what would happen to the deer.
Environmental activists were fully ignorant of what would happen to the deer.
They seem to have developed a genetic change as a result of the “up-charge”.
The species seems to “breed-true” this trait and is advancing northwards.
May God help us all.
Seeing a new person post reminds me that we haven’t had a good opus thread lately.
Aaaaahhhhhh for the days of FReeper OWK...
He would set forth an imposing, (but for some, a mind numbing) OPUS, defend it for days/weeks, eventually go off on subject tangents.
With a blaze...return (while defending his return), post for months and months, then evetually construct another OPUS. IIRC...4 'great OPUS in all. All conducted as mentioned above.
But he did keep some either thinking, challenged, bored, irritated, entertained.
Humble found out that spiders explode in a fury on coffee.
It was a natural experiment progression to butterflies.
OMGosh! Darksheare, quick! Send me the coffee beans right away.
And why, oh why, did you infect the butterflies? Sal and I were lucky to have escaped with our lives.
What’s going to happen when the Texas deer meet up with the Ohio deer, gunner?
Division by zero. TEOTWAWKI. Blogpimps. BITS.
Armageddon.
I hate to even speak of it.. but there it is.
Well, the butterflies were an interesting experiment.
Kinda like seeing Mothra on crack.
I just didn’t expect them to be so homicidal and full of rage.
Deer aren’t my specialty, I’ve merely fed them chocolate, coffee, and some pop rocks for fun and profit.
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