Posted on 07/03/2014 11:39:53 AM PDT by skeptoid
Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves -- although unlike the colorful characters of the early 20th century gold rush days, these visitors have four legs, not two.
Musk oxen are wandering into the city on the Seward Peninsula, and despite loud noises, water hoses and even a blow-up bear coated in ursine urine, they don't want to leave.
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How rich is that? I mean, they have to celebrate something, those unwashed, undisciplined, unemployed, don’t they?
Well, I had time, so I cleaned myself.
Wasn't sure I wanted to, though; it was a lot of work.
Unemployed is a lot different than Retired! LOL!
One of my nieces called a while ago to ask about our Native American heritage. She thinks she wants to go to SoDak to find work...
She’s only been here three years, but lived most of her adult life on the Front Range in CO. Tomorrow, when I get home, I’ll give her the family lore of Grandmother Duncan, so she has it in writing. I hope it helps.
She’s a little out of her elephant, right now, poor kid. And her mother is no help at all.
In the meantime, my Baby Sis tells me they are heading back and are about 4 hours away.
Gives me time to go watch some more Iron Horses, er, I mean move my car out of their way.
That's the story.
Sticking to it.
Today CSX ex B&O Westbound to Chicago is messed up... I was listening to the 'F' Tower dispatcher. Until the batteries in my scanner died. But I can get more when I go out to watch trains, er, I mean, move my car...
20 foot-long millipedes found at airport.....
I was told that we had some Cherokee blood in our line.
What a choice, eh? Marry into the hillbilly clans, or pretty much nuthin’.
Now you know why they left.
Twenty feet, hmm?
Came up a bit short, then?
Perhaps they grow like trees....a new segmental pair each year. :)
Shoes must get expensive.
Lots of people have Cherokee blood as they were one of the more peaceful tribes.
It’s something else to have Lakota Sioux, and even something else (Comanche) mixed in on the other side of the family. Both are warrior tribes.
This niece also has some Seminole, from her father’s side, and I will try to trace him when I get back home.
Now that’s just WRONG! What size plane did they come in on?
One of the big military transports?
*snirt*
Chop into steaks. Fry 'em up in butter with ginger and garlic...
They are transported the same way as Snakes...
The Tubes from the middle of Aluminium Kitchen foil are idea for small snakes and millipedes, all the way up to Carpet tubes for larger snakes.
These beauties should have been moved in lengths of corrugated flexible electrical conduit....it is easily coiled without damaging the Snake or millipede inside.
That isn’t what the Indian guide in Peru told us....He recommended chilli sauce.
A lot of these are poisonous....and so need soaking over night. :)
TMI. Moosie. TMI. It’s lunchtime here...
That needs one more hyphen to be really scary.
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That joke ,What goes ‘99 clomp’ just won’t go away.
My uncle told us of an occupant of a prison somewhere, not convicted, but consigned there anyway.
It was a rat, with a peg leg. It had gotten caught, and lost its leg. Enterprising convicts, with little better to do, had manufactured a substitute out of coat-hanger wire.
In the middle of the night, all of the prisoners were locked in place, save one.
“Rustle, rustle, rustle, ... clunk!”
“Scurry, scurry, scurry, ... clunk!”
“Here comes ol’ Peg!” the inmates would say, and smile to realize that one of their number was enjoying freedom, after a certain fashion.
Ah, sweet. :)
Did he have a tin cup to rattle on the bars as well?
Are you back from the botanical gardens already?
The last load of laundry is in the wash, and the next-to-last one is in the dryer. Yay me.
I’m starving, but I want to wait for Busdaddy to get home before I eat, as I brought only enough fruit snacks for two more before morning. And I forgot my yogurt. Darn.
Since I’ve been here today, I have been watching a marathon of “WWII in Colour” which is pretty comprehensive in scope. The producers have managed to bring in facets of the war that seem to be in history books but not in documentaries. I’m learning a lot!
I’m always glad to have a choice of channels to watch, but I will be glad to get home tomorrow and try to finish cleaning up the papers in the living room. I need more loose leaf binders, but even in thrift stores, they cost more than they should. I will forego them this payday.
Not that I'm aware. But he could have worked up quite the song and dance routine, given a straw hat and cane of the proper dimensions.
I can see that as quite an entertaining animation sequence.
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