What did you see wierd today?

Nothing overly weird, but here is mine for the day.

As of late, there is a secret hole somewhere in the back of
the house where a family of wasps has moved in. When we
enter the shed; which is connected to the house, wasps come in
on occasion.

This morning I discovered someone had left the door open, so
we had numerous wasps in the house. Using the vac, I sucked them
up, dumped the cannister into a bag and tied it shut.

On with my day, I had one piece of paper to file in the 2006 tax folder;
which is sitting sideways in a desk organizer with multiple folders going
back to 2000, but including 2007.

Of all the folders in the organizer, I pulled out 2006 to find a wasp sitting
on it, who promptly flew towards my face.

Now I ask you. Of all the places to be, how odd for the wasp to be on
the very folder out of eight folders that I needed out of the blue.

As I type this, he is flying about the ceiling, unaware he is about to become
part of a Eureka. :-)

ROTFLMBO! You girls are a hoot. Thanks for the laughs. May I share a couple of weird/funny/odd things?

We have a local homeless man who is constantly walking and never breaks stride (I call him 'Walking Man'). Every now and again he will be covered head to toe in something black - like charcoal. I have no idea what it is or where he gets (into) it, but he looks like the old time performers in 'black face'. His eyes and mouth are flesh colored while the rest of his face is totally black. I'd ask him what it is.......but he won't stop walking long enough to answer! LOL!

Like Red above, DH and I are probably considered the 'odd' ones around here. We recently adopted some roosters to help control ticks on our rural property (we are transplanted city folks). We were told they would roost in the trees. Well, the third night we discovered they were roosting in my flower baskets on our front porch! Not having a coop for them yet, I didn't have the heart to make them leave and then be killed by our many predators so that means hosing off the porch every day. Roosters eat lots of bugs.....then you know what else they do a lot of! It's a good thing we rarely have anyone come to the front door!

Debra

OMG!! that is too funny! reminds me of my two cats, Daisy (age 3) and Jazz (age 4 months)......so Daisy is in the rocker this morning snoozing away, Jazz spots her and jumps up on the rocker too. Started the rocker moving. Daisy opens one eye, sees Jazz, closes eye. Jazz puts his arm aroung Daisy's neck....and I am thinking.....oops, cat fight. But NO!!!! Daisy doesn't react, just stays asleep. Jazz starts licking/grooming Daisy's ears, no response, then eyes, nose, still not response. Jazz gets up and sits on daisy's hind quarters.....no response.
Then Jazz starts grooming again........legs, whatever is within his reach.
No response from daisy. this went on for maybe 15 minutes......and i was waiting for Daisy to attack. Jazz weighs 2 pounds, Daisy..well, about 10.
Suddenly Daisy opened one eye again, and again I am thinking CAT FIGHT, but no, she got up, stretched, and walked away with obvious dignity and disgust. and what did Jazz do? he looked at Daisy, then promptly curled up in the rocker and went to sleep.
he only wanted the rocker.....typical male, don't you think??
Now I know that was not weird, but pretty interesting to watch, and a bit strange since Daisy was an only cat for 3 years......
i am still looking for something weird.......

We've had a very dry summer and the other day I was using a watering can to revive some plants in my garden when I noticed all the praying mantis. Every plant I watered seemed to have a resident mantis. As the sprinkled water began to shake the foliage, the mantis would come out of hiding and scramble up to the top of the plant, then it would sit up and try to snatch falling drops of water out of the air with its front "praying" feet. If they were thirsty, you'd think the mantises would just drink drops of water from the leaves, and surely they could tell that the falling drops were not edible insects, so I have no idea why they would try to catch water. Very strange!

Maybe they like to stay in 'practice' for when the real thing comes along!

Maybe they were "preying" for rain.
(oh, groan....did I type that?)

(you should see the stuff I delete before hitting send)

LOL Parts, you are such a hoot! Love your posts.

:-)

Ok, Saturday I took DM to my SIL house to see her candle shop. I also wanted her to see the rug loom (that my mother had given her years ago) So I called first, to say we would be coming and that we were coming in the back door.
She said that was great, but be careful of the frog. Ok...what frog?
She then explained how a tree frog was living in the top of the door jam of the back of the shop for a couple months. He rides the door open, then squishes himself back into the jam as you shut the door.
I knew that you would want pictures. First picture is blurry, but you get the scene.

Here he is as he looked when I approached the door.
Now this is was the strange thing for the day for sure.
Is this a "frog jam" ?

LOL,

Too cute! Just last night I noticed one was stuck to my office window,
but since I was on the phone, I didn't get a picture of him. :-(

How sweet that she cares enough about the frog to caution visitors.

Be mindful the frog, please.

:-)

How cute! I never see tree frogs here, though I know there are lots of them out in the country near us.

Glad you folks liked it. I thought he was really cute and there must be lots of bugs there for him to get. I told her she had quite a cute bug-zapper.

Now, if that frog would camp out at the intersection where all the flies are, he'd be full all the time!

He does look like hes getting pretty fat. He may not be able to squish down in there anymore.
It amazes me when creatures set up housekeeping where they know they will be disturbed. Like birds nests on decks, by doors that are used alot, or even in wreathes on doors. They must feel pretty safe regardless. BYW that was my sister in laws finger in the picture to show his size. He is not scared of her at all.

That is a cute little frog. Thanks for sharing. :-)


Now, the weird thing. I was sitting in the living room reading and the house jumped. Well, that's what it felt like - two sharp jolts and a lot of creaky noise. It was a small earthquake located a few miles from here. They are to be expected here, of course, but I always find them strange. I mean, there you are, minding your own business, and the "solid ground" moves. How weird is that?

That is strange. I guess not where you are at. They don't happen here. I am sure that would be quite unsettling in the least.
Ran my errands today and saw that a couple neighbors must be fueding. I saw a bunch of metal posts with a rope tied to them in a line like a make-shift fence. Every two feet is a neon orange "no trespassing" sign. (couldn't they find spray paint to paint a line and say, do not cross?) Seems a little immature doesn't it?
Sheesh, good way to let the whole neighborhood know your mentality.

Kelli, we would find the earthquakes strange here, too! Tornados we are accustomed to, earthquakes - no.

cparts, that's both funny and sad. Life's too short to hold grudges. Especially with your neighbors. You may need each other some time!

I thought of this thread earlier this morning when I saw one of our 'regulars' on his bicycle. 20 or 25 years ago there was a homeless couple that were always seen together riding their bicycles around the downtown area. He was a 30-ish year old black male who always wore a Mexican sombraro and a handlebar mustach. She was a 50-ish year old white female who always wore saddle shoes and bobbie socks. I think I heard she died several years ago. As I was driving to my destination this morning, I saw a man on a bicycle stopped in the middle of the road ahead of me. He was picking up his hat that had blown off his head and landed in the middle of the road. When I got closer I saw his handlebar mustach. Yep! That was him! His face was much fuller but once I saw the mustach I realized who he was. Hadn't seen him in years. I bet he misses his former bicycle buddy.

I bet he does too. Good way to get around for them. She is probably with him in spirit.

The silly fence is from neighbors up the road, I am not involved in this mess thank goodness. I cannot believe they can be so juvinile. My next door neighbors are quite far away, (as in can't see them) so we wave alot and chat once in a while. When you get further up the road the houses are stacked together (like most lakes) giving people no room to breathe. This guy has his brother on one side (who I know he doesn't talk to) and now this guy on the other side putting up signs. So maybe he is just hard to get along with. It is sad. Like hanging your problems out for everyone to see.

I can't believe it!

At the grocery store, someone actually returned the shopping
cart to the cart corral! Is that weird, or what??

LOL. Seems to be a dying trend.

KM

That is a good thing to see.

WUVIE, you're a hoot!

Here's a weird one for ya. I just looked into the kitchen and DH is making dinner. It's not my b-day, it's not our anniversary, no special reason at all. Now, I can figure out a thousand reasons why a man may be riding a bull down the side of a highway...but why DH would be making dinner on just an ordinary Tuesday???

Nice surprise, weird or not! :D

My weirdness today was another bug one. I went into the grocery store to do some shopping. Nothing unusual. I left to find not just a few, but hundreds of thousands of insects flying around. It was *unreal*. I think they are ants...I saw them all over town this evening after leaving the store. I'm uploading a picture to the insect ID forum tonight. If another DG'r was around when I was taking photos of these bugs on my van in the grocery store parking lot, *I* might be the weird thing seen by them. LOL

Okay, here's one for you.

At this time of the year, wasps find their way into the house.
To amuse myself, as well as the dogs, I use one of hubby's tools
to catch the wasps who choose to wander into the office.
This tool is called a ___(?)___, similar to the thing-a-ma-jig Arnold
Schwarzenegger used in the movie 'Total Recall' to remove a big thing out of
his nose. If you haven't seen it, don't ask, LOL.

Anyhow. You push the button on the end of this long metal tool, and four fingers
come out the other end. When the button is released, the fingers grab the
object you are after, and they retract into the tool to hold it.

When I catch the wasp, we (the dogs and myself) run down the hall
excitedly, thrust the tool into the toilet and yell at the nasty bug. I'm not
sure if this amuses me more, or the dogs. We then flush the toilet and
bark up a storm while the wasp surrenders to the whirlpool in the water.

So. Get on with the story, Karen.

We caught the bug, we rushed down the hall and we barked. We put the
wasp in the pot and stood there yelling and barking at the wasp. It was now
time to flush the sucker when he actually flew straight up out of the water, like
one of those heavy aircraft that hoovers straight up in the air. He flew straight
for my face, I screamed, Sophie barked, Doobie didn't know what the heck was
going on, and the cats were freaked out.

I'm glad I'm alone during the day.

;-)

LOL! That's ok, Karen. Don't feel bad. I had a similar experience this afternoon outdoors. One of those big 'ol ugly red wasps buzzed me while I was hosing down the concrete patio. I sprayed him down to the ground! I sprayed and sprayed - holding him down until he drowned. Then I washed him off the concrete into the flower bed just below the water faucet. Yep, you guessed it.......I reached over to turn off the faucet.......and he did the same thing......rising like a phoenix! Lesson learned: don't assume they are dead unless you see guts!

A related weird thing - my two dogs keep stealing tomatoes off the vine. Those stinkers put their teeth around an almost ripe tomato (no, they don't care for green ones) and pluck it from the vine then carry it off and eat it. I was actually spraying a dog with a tomato in her mouth when the red wasp buzzed me....do they stick up for each other?

Y'all want weird? Come to stay with me and follow me around for a while. My family calls me the weirdo magnet. If weird is in a 50 mile radius it will find me. One time we were in CA getting gas at a truck stop and this guy who looked like lucifer living was standing across the parking lot having a very animated conversation with himself. My husband turned to me and said 'honey, there's your boyfriend.' I asked what he was talking about and he said 'watch, he will be over here talking to you in a minute or two'. Sure enough, he came over and had a message for me that he was relaying from the archangel gabriel.
We recently moved to the far suburbs, kinda rural area out of Atlanta. One of my first trips to the local grocery store ( a very small one) and weird comes knocking on my door. I pull into my parking space and as I am trying to get in, I almost hit this little old lady. She came outa nowhere. Then she comes over, opens my car door, tries to get in, is talking to my kids and telling me about what we are having for dinner tonight. Turns out, her husband needed to get a few things in the store and left her out in the truck. She is senile and wandered over to my car thinking I was someone she knew and she wanted to go home with me. I finally found her husband and all was okay.
I swear, I have something like this happen to me on a daily basis. No wonder my family calls me the weirdo magnet.

Weirdo magnet. LOL. I feel like that sometimes.
I
must look too compasionate or something.
Healthrjoy. I alway say "nothing sexier than a man cooking (washing dishes, sweeping the floor etc)

Being allergic to the stinging bugs, I try to avoid them, but I have learned that wasps are pretty tough. If you slap one with a fly swatter, they are only stunned. I remove them to the outside, regardless. I have one of those tools, it is for picking up little nuts and bolts that fall into the car engine area.
I think we should call it a wasp grabber, what a good way to get one at a window. But now I know to never try to flush one. I would be afraid of him coming back up the pipe like a snake or lizzard in the sewer. Ouch.

cparts.......WHY did you have to go and mention snakes and lizards in the sewer?????? Now I'll be trying to pee while 'hovering' over the toilet! LOL!

I am just impressed that you can catch a wasp with one of those things!!

Oh, Jazz, it's easy, but in all the wasps I've caught with it, they have been
on the window. I tried to get one on the fridge and he looked me straight
in the eye. Sure enough, I not only missed him the first time, but he let me
know what a sorry shot I was. His fate came at the hands of a nearby bucket.

Fleurs, oh, I always look before hovering. While I'm not much for public toilets,
once in a blue moon I must. It amazes me how people can leave the room
without making certain the deposit has left as well. As for the wasps, it would
be better to hold him down in the water while flushing, as opposed to standing
there making a scene with the dogs as I do. LOL.

The wasps are indeed strong. It often takes several hard smacks with the
swatter to get those suckers laid to rest.

Ga_peach, too funny! Love your words.

KM

Oh WUVIE, now you had to go and mention weird and rude toilet habits and not flushing. How about this. We went out to dinner at a mexican restaurant the other day. My son went to the restroom and came back and told me this one. There was a family sitting next to us (parents, one boy, one girl) there. AFTER the meal, the dad takes the kids to the restroom where they all proceed to wash their hands, wash their faces? then rinse out their mouths! and THEN GO PEE and leave. What is the deal with that? I wouldn't have washed the neighbors dog in their bathroom let alone do all that and then to do it all and then pee? Weird.

I am so enjoying this thread! Why doesn't anything weird happen to me? Hmmmm...I guess it does. Whenever I go shopping or out to eat...or whatever...I am always invisible! No kidding! It's like I am 'not there'!!
Sales people will ask if they can help someone else, when I have been standing there right in front of them. Or...people will push me out of the way like I am not there. (I am short...lol)
I have it happen many many times. And hubby agrees....I am invisible.

Poor Marcy! I'm going to make you a t-shirt that says, "I'm NOT invisible!" Then you'll get way too much attention, and probably be the subject of a post on this thread, LOL!

LOL Heathrjoy!! Yeahhhh...that's what I need...a T shirt....lol!! Think it would help????

Ok, y'all want weird, huh? Here's weird...

Last Dec. 12 I had to have my gall bladder removed. I guess during surgery my Doc decided to get a little artistic. After surgery he handed me 2 pics. Both of them were of my removed gall bladder sitting on hand drawn Christmas cards. The Christmas cards included pics of Christmas trees, cardinals, calligraphy writing and all. "Merry Christmas Heather, From Doc Joe." is what they said. Now, that's just plain weird.

okay, that is weird and in a EEEEEEEWWWE! kind of way. That would have freaked me out.

I guess the docs love to take pics of your insides and give them to you now. I have pics of other parts of my insides too...but they are without artwork, lol.

LOL...yeah that's weird! My doc gave me the steel rods he took out of my back. They were broken, but he put them in a ziploc for me.!

What is with that anyway? I had to have my 3rd by c section and my hubby was in there with the camera to get pics of the baby. I was also getting a tubal. My husband took pics of my uterus outside of my body laying on my stomach during the procedure. They put a curtain thingy up so I couldn't see what was happening down there for a reason. Why take pictures of it then?

YOWEE! broken steel rods! What on earth happened to you? And you survived it? Are you wonder woman?

I don't know what's up with taking pics of people's innards. I have mine and just hide them, they gross me out so bad. I keep them only because I think I may need them someday for comparison purposes. Well, the gall bladder pic I keep because it is so bizzare, lol.