For me it would be Aleve.
Coffee Break # 15 - Where were you??
yes, and zetia.
is that all victor?
Hate to mention the controlled substances.
=:0o
Shocking news today - widespread corruption in NJ! ^_^
That's shocking? Not if you live here.
I'm really enjoying this thread. Sometimes wishing that I wasn' t drinking something as I read, cuz it makes a mess!
I remember the sugar cube corsage from one of my sisters. My bros and sisters are so much older than me, my oldest bro is 24 yrs older, my oldest sis is 20 yrs older, my other bro is 16yrs older and my other sis is 12yrs older .
Not shocked at all, Jan. I was kidding.
How's this for a cool memory. In 1972 (?), when Bobby Fisher was competing against the Russian champ at chess, we were playing chess in the street! That's when I first learned the game. It was funny hearing '%$%$#%!! checkmate'.
The current Fun Random Plant is Nipplewort! Never heard of it. Sounds painful.
yes it does!!!
our buddy was back
a photographer Randy is not... sorry
Whoa!!
when I came home a cop car was up the street... had to see me run the house like a maniac to get the camera... ran out back... and Randy had to climb up on our retaining wall to get the shots of it in my neighbors yard
He is absolutely gorgeous! I want to hug him! (or maybe just shake his hand or something)
Flowerjen--are you the baby then?
I knew you were kidding, Victor. Just pulling your leg. :)
eddited to add: YIKES, Allison!!!
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Allison, did they say what they are planning on doing about the bear?
Yes Jadajoy, I'm the baby.
OMG Allison, can't you call a game warden or something?? Holy crap, thats just scary.
I was thinking of coming to Jersey for a visit but I changed my mind. I can get bears in Maine. ^_^
He/she is very handsome, but in someone else's town! Randy got good photos considering he didn't want to socialize with it.
Yes, I'm not sure I'd be fussing too much about lighting, composition, etc.!
me either... I was yelling at him to come back by me... and told him he was nuts for getting that close.. even with the zoom... I just kept reminding him they can run 35 miles an hour.. what ever he does.. DON'T RUN AWAY
it seems the only thing the cops are doing it scaring it back into the woods and away from the homes.. the cop was out there with his whistle... kind of made me just shake my head
on to something else... I just watched the so you think you can dance episode from last night.. if you don't watch it.. please watch this piece about a woman with breast cancer... it brought tears to my eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuMVaAxuH6o
I was watching it too.
great shots allison - black bears are not so bad unless you are a bird feeder - hiking in NH i once turned left on a trail at dusk and had one right there - i could have patted its head - it was huge - always thought i would freak out - we both stopped looked at each other - i can distinctly remember saying to myself how beautiful the bear was - and then the bear kinda gave me a look like - you are supposed to get out of my way - so i turned and went back down the trail i was on. the story continues but needs a camp fire
a bear was spotted less than a mile from here last week so i am waiting - probably been tracking me down for 10 years :)
uuuhhh bird feeder????... how about 5 bird feeders 3 or 4 squirrel feeders... LOL... or at least there WAS ... we took down mostly everything... I actually feel bad for the birds.. they keep coming back to the empty post looking for goodies
:(
Ok Bill - campfire going here. Please, tell the story.
let's see if i can do this without typing a full page.
just before i was looking out over a pond watching a mama moose and baby moose when these 4 college kids with head lamps on join me - they were camped 3-4 miles away and would be walking in the dark back there - two of them start telling me a story of a bear that came right up to them the day before while they were taking a break - they ran away and the bear ripped open a backpack and ate a jar of peanut butter- as they are telling how big this bear was, one of the other kids says he spots a bear 400 yds down the shore line - it is all trees and boggy and i see no bear - i think they are pulling my leg - so i say my good byes and walk out to the trail and met the bear as i discribed above - it was only 30 ft. or so from where they kids where although it was all brush and you could not see the bear or trail - when i walked back to them and tell them the bear is right out on the trail - three of these kids run into the water up to their thighs and the other stand behind me - they were petrified - i thought this was pretty comical and tease them a bit and ask one in the water for his big walking stick that i'd need it before him - we wait a while and all leave - my campsite was just up the hill 150"
when i get to the site i tell the girl i was with this story - it was getting pretty dark by now - all of a sudden these knuckleheads are running up the hill about 100 yds from us yelling, trying to scare the bear away, they were chasing it - well i guess the bear turned and now these idiots are running down the hill screaming with bear behind them. All we could do was listen and watch their headlamps bounce up the hill and back down in the dark.
i had built a campfire before this so these kids come running over to us for safety - we spent the next hour looking out into the dark, banging pans, every so often one of the kids "claiming" he could see the bear watching us, waiting to pounce. Finally they left in the pitch black to hike back to their campsite. I think the bear was long gone. The girl i was with was scarred to death of animals, least of all a bear, it made for a sleepless night as any little mouse sound and i would get shaken awake and have too go out and inspect.
Now the time a bear came into our campsite when i had my 9 and 7 year old daughters is a good one......save that for another day.
I was 11 and GLUED to my TV. I was (and still am!) a HUGE space cadet. Most kids got to stay home from school the next day because the walk was at night. Man I was SO EXCITED! The Saturn V was our GREATEST rocket. Still is.
Thanks Bill - my campfire was getting a bit low!
My bear story is not so exciting, but I learned a good lesson:
Hiking up the side of mountain with friend, cross-country skis on our shoulders parallel to the ground.
We walk around one switchbackl, and right in front of us is a bear, who looked small, UNYIL he stood up. He looked around & sniffed the air, a bit confused. I am by this time, trying to decide whether to keep watching him (they are interestingly beautiful) or exit stage left. My friend is ttttryingg ttttooo talkkkk, but she makes me laugh - her motor mouth has sputtered & stalled, plus she is scared. so i give her the most reasonable advice i could think of:
DO NOT RUN
make yourself look "big" by holding skis upright
Whistle!
So she's trying to whistle, which makes me start laughing hard again. I decided that would probably piss the bear off, so i started singing & it was whatever hit my brain: Yellow Submarine, the pirates of the Caribbean theme song from the Disneyland ride followed by a John Phillip Sousa marching song. He left. Quickly.
We hiked back down the trail to a camping area where some folks had their campsite to let them know. They told us that Mama Bear had been around earlier, too.
We went elsewhere to hike in/ski out. My friend got back at me by allowing me the first run down, telling me to turn right at a certain point to catch the mini-jump. So I did, and ended up in the creek.
Moral of the story: whistling can make your friends irritable.
you sure it wasn't the singing? sounds like it scared the bear :)
Love the bear stories.
Great stories! More, more :-)
Well, Bill - the Pirates of the Caribbean Theme song would scare me too!
Perhaps transitioning from Yellow Submarine to POTC wasn't the best idea - that would be a very "peaceful co-existence group hug type" followed by a "drunken hooligans performing acts of pillaging" & the like. John P. Sousa sunk it: the march-step tempo to get on back to mama bear!
More on the story of Peppy Le Peu. DH has been highly sceptical about the existence of Peppy as he hadn't seen him but he decided to push a couple of 2x4s in front of Peppy's door just in case. As soon as I discovered this I asked him to take them away because Peppy would be trapped. Later that night I heard my DH say a really bad word and slam the sliding door. I went in and DH was looking through the sliding door at Peppy sitting on the lawn looking at him. I said "Go on. Go ahead. That's not a skunk. That's a tabby. I'm sure Peppy understands why you blocked off his front door. Go on. I'll wait here." DH is now rethinking the whole situation (tee hee)
I opened Fine Gardening and fount this.
Really funny
http://www.douglasfeypottery.com/index.htm
I luv the Storm Goon
Honestly I dont know the guy nor am I soliciting.
Just sharing.
great bear stories... boy o boy.. those prices almost made me pass out... could never put that outside
I also believe I can make something here in a pottery studio of a friend, not a copy of course but something in clay and wood.
Cat and wolves ones are the best, the others are very creepy and yes the prices are crazy.