Attack the Giant Tomato!!!
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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Home again. Both of us were feeling a little under the weather by the time he drove here, and I’m tempted to go lie down.
However, it’s too late. If I napped even for 20 minutes, I would have a hard time sleeping tonight.
When I opened the door, it smelled like cigarette smoke, which means the A/C was running a lot. I normally leave the front door open about an inch and the bedroom window open about a half inch so the air can circulate. When it is closed up, it takes three days for the stink to be cleared out.
I got thank you cards at Walmart, but didn’t have my reading glasses on so when I got home, I found they were sympathy thank yous! LOL! Not “lol” but LOL! My BAD! I will exchange them tomorrow.
Yup, yup, yup. Can't see a thing since I got my eyes fixed.
I don't regret it. It's still a miracle. But I'm used to being near-sighted.
So I too am trying to learn to take my reading glasses with me when I go shopping. I can see! -- but I can't read the fine print!
I have six pairs of reading glasses in increasing increments in the house. The first is 1.00 magnification, the next is 1.5, the next is 2.00, and so on. I have and continue to use all of them on an almost daily basis. One I keep on the nightstand for reading, one is at the computer, and four are within easy reach.
I also went to Walgreen’s and found a pair of reading glasses in a case that I keep in the truck in case I have to *gasp* read a map. They are 1.50, and also have tinted lenses. And then there is the tiny pair I tuck in my purse in their own fabric case. They come in handy for doctor’s offices and other places where I need to read to small print.
And yes, having surgery continues to be a miracle, but like you, I’m VERY used to be myopic! But I’m learning! LOL!
So there I am on my way to work and i see: guy riding a Goldwing at 70mph, hands in his lap instead of on the handlebars, and he is leaning the bike left and right to make it shimmy down the highway.
Next item: full moon tonight.
I fully expected to watch the goldwing guy hit the potholes up ahead and pinball it on the highway.
I didn’t stick around to see if he did.
It’s the time of year here in NY when midlife crisis and testosterone end up in a perfect storm of poor suicidal decisions..
It was this time of year when I watched a guy launch himself off the road for absolutely no reason at all.
Be safe out there, between the idiots of all stripes and wheel combinations from two to eighteen, I’m surprised any of us make it anywhere in one piece.
Not my fault.
“No otherworldly entities were detected at this time.”
That’s a relief.
Lol
Hey, I swear i saw a lady who looked like that there...
What? Wet nose and wiskers? wow, poor thing. lol.
Wet nose, wjiskers , hair curlers, the whole nine.
Well, I was confronted one time by a lady whom I swore spent most of her time incorporeal, rattling chains in an attic and haunting some graveyard at midnight.
She held her hands outward like Montgomery Burns and didn’t appear to actually walk so much as float.
I did not spy a gray kitty. Or any glowing cat-like eyes that would indicate my cat beacon had alerted the intended furbeast.
But I DID spy a pair of glowing eyes. And they were contained within the body of a black and white striped furcreature that often is referred to as a cat of the pole variety. Polecat.
'Twas a pretty creature rooting around in the mounds of clipped advanced grass substitute that was freshly mowed. Since polekitties are omnivores, I'm not sure whether he/she was eating vegies or the bugs that were hiding in the rows of semi-mulched advanced grass substitute and I was not about to approach it for an interview.
So if you are planning an excursion into our drive this darkperiod, be advised that you might be greeted by an inqusitive creature that looks a lot like this:
It is a bright sunny day here.
The Blades on the razor wire look a little tarnished, i’ll polish them latter.
Did she speak to you at all, any clues as to her identity?
Sounds like the ghost that has been heard in no10.... No, No, No, No, The Lady is not for leaving.
What colour where the eyes shinning?
I’ve seen these furbeasts on Cartoons, if red eyed ,run.
More like a long exhale that never ended.
And she was in a supermarket.
Odd place for a ghost.
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