The Old Folks Home

[Amberjem]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I wish that Toronto mayor was still around. He was a hoot. And he didn't represent me.

I work in a very political environment. Did I tell you about the time I literally turned a corner and ran into LePage? I could have died. It couldn't have been scripted better and now that it's over I can laugh about it. The whole shebang was there, and here I am, after just committing an office B&E and trying to get the heck out of there quickly... bam! I ended up getting stuck in the people traffic because he travels with a giant entourage and it was a veritable meet and greet. Everyone was sucking up to him and the other big wigs. I was just trying to scoot along the wall after my altercation like some kind of cockroach. He also made a speech a few weeks back thanking our Veterans for their service and allowing him the continued freedom to exercise his first amendment rights, which he sometimes exercised too much. I laughed out loud on that one.



I got another quilt top completely finished. In case you haven't figured it out by now, I have a form of sewing ADD and am usually working on at least 4 projects at once. This one is a quilting sampler - each block has a different design. Some I really sucked at, some not so much. But it made a nice texture on the top of the quilt. It's in the dryer right now (it had an unfortunate incident with some spray glue and the cat) and will be gifted as soon as I'm off overnights.








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With this one being done that brings me to only 2 active projects. Luckily I'm starting a new one, soon.

Mayor Ford was a hoot. Ever see him dance or go on a drug induced rant? He was just a little clumsy.

You can't lie to a pharmacist.


This is the best I can find this late at night, however, both those two were well up behind the snake den sign, all the way up this little slot.



I only went about halfway up, continually canvassing for snakes. Luckily it was too cold but one can never be too careful.

Later that night we found out from an employee that the area was in fact not a snake den, but an area where buzzards nested. Buzzards are notorious scavengers, often eating horrible dead things. And when threatened or scared, they regurgitate their rotten food onto the aggressor to help get away, much like a squid does with ink. Anyway, we didn't see any buzzards, either, but I would have paid money to have a buzzard vomit at one of these two. AT, not ON. I still had to ride home with them.

MO has a lot more snakes than ME. After 65 years of playing in the snake infested woods, fields, brush, streams, ponds and lakes, I've yet to be bitten. I used to concern myself with it but with that track record, I no longer care.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Mayor Ford was a hoot. Ever see him dance or go on a drug induced rant? He was just a little clumsy.


MO has a lot more snakes than ME. After 65 years of playing in the snake infested woods, fields, brush, streams, ponds and lakes, I've yet to be bitten. I used to concern myself with it but with that track record, I no longer care.

We don't have anything poisonous here (spiders/snakes) so I'm not terribly concerned. However, I'm concerned in other places, and that was Alabama, because I don't know what they look like/act like and, quite frankly, after the Arizona Scorpion Incident I'm a little concerned with my ability to not be a complete moron when confronted with a poisonous snake.

 

[perchie.girl]

Southern California only has Pit Vipers I belive.... Oh and a sea snake that is found from the coast of Washington down to South America.

Coral snake is listed for california but I thought it was an eastern snake

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

For What its Worth I hope @Alaskan is having a good visit with his dad and his family.

deb

 

[ronott1]

Southern California only has Pit Vipers I belive.... Oh and a sea snake that is found from the coast of Washington down to South America.

Coral snake is listed for california but I thought it was an eastern snake

deb

Pit Vipers are Rattle Snakes. They are present throughout all of California as Timber Rattlers to Diamond back rattlers down south.

I have never heard them called pit vipers by a Native Californian.

Texas has Copper heads, which is another type of Pit Viper. Given global warming, I wonder if they will make it out to California. Already Africanized bees are on the way up North to me. That was never supposed to happen.

At my place, I am more likely to run into black widows. One night last summer I killed 10 of them with a fly zapper--walking from the front door to the Garbage bin at the side of the hours. Needless to say, I do not go out in the dark without a flash light.....

 

[1kluckychik]

For What its Worth I hope @Alaskan
is having a good visit with his dad and his family.

deb

Here we go again with the great "Alaskans gender debate"

 

[1kluckychik]

We don't have anything poisonous here (spiders/snakes) so I'm not terribly concerned. However, I'm concerned in other places, and that was Alabama, because I don't know what they look like/act like and, quite frankly, after the Arizona Scorpion Incident I'm a little concerned with my ability to not be a complete moron when confronted with a poisonous snake.

Lol. That is all a myth we created to keep Alabama less populated.

 

[drumstick diva]

Has anyone seen Bama lately? He seems to have fallen off the radar.

 

[1kluckychik]

Has anyone seen Bama lately? He seems to have fallen off the radar.

Yep. Too often.
He has fallen off the wagon too