In the Service of Her Majesty The Queen

True! Even the one you were kicking!

To Scryler.
That outburst is quite unusual for your posts.

 

Nope. Not a good time, at all.

 

I have never advocated letting someone get away with kicking you when you were down. I have advocated getting away from the kicker. Unless, of course, you enjoy being a hockey puck. (Sounds much more emphatic than being a football, even if it is the wrong metaphor.)

This flat round disk with no brains is sailing right out of the arena.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

I still have nothing to say.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Sleep.
Wake.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

I am learning to respect day sleepers. Everything gets turns upside down.

Even saying G'Night, as I do, at the bottom of the screen is confusing, especially if I wait until it is clearly morning to write it. Do I say good morning then? (pssst...write it earlier)

I haven't been picky about what I eat and when...just as likely to have grapes or day old popcorn for breakfast as any other time. And often eat breakfast right before going to bed. My main meal is lunch, which is my equivalent of dinner, if I'm doing one of those slop food all week deals (which I am doing this week or at least the next 3 or 4 days). So what meal I'm eating isn't a problem, happily.

I am lucky that a neighbor woman does my lawn, as I can tell her to come in the evening when I'll be awake rather than in the morning. I couldn't do that if I was using a regular yard service business . So if she gets a little upset over snakes and also gets me concerned as well, that's ok. She isn't going to wake me up over it.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Wake up...
Sleep....

Just thought I 'd be funny for once.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

No, please ask. The Queen sounds like she needs to work out some frustration and Ga and I are a still a little sore from the last time...

BTW, my Dearest Queen, please PM and vent. Your faithful knight is here. Working 6-7 day weeks, but here.

 

You need a union

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

I feel like I should say Good Morning, lol.

Shortly after I came on shift, I found the tiniest tree frog I have ever seen. I raised frogs once in a big galvanized washtub, oodles of them,
from pollywogs to tailess frogs able to hop out, so I've seen plenty of tiny frogs. But I've never seen a tree frog that small. It was really cute.

I caught many of those brown fuzzy looking caterpillars, too. Put them in close proximity and the color variation becomes very obvious. The caterpillars reminded me of all the bears at Yellowstone; when there are enough bears in one area, their color variation becomes obvious, too. I was going to have a caterpillar circus and invite the neighborhood kids, but caterpillars are too stupid to train. Or maybe I was too stupid to be a caterpillar trainer.

Kids don't play that way anymore.

We had all kinds of things going on in our neighborhood. A scary underground series of 'rooms' with weird things in it (peeled grapes, that sort of thing), a neighborhood 'play' in someone's backyard, frequent mudball 'wars' with some kids from an adjoining neighborhood, various 'forts' in backyards, neighborhood baseball games (a standard when the weather was good) and sometimes touch football games, mass bicycle races and homemade coaster races, marbles tournaments. And, of course, we played 'dogpile' on whoever wasn't watching their back closely.

All of these were organized by us kids and no adults were involved, and may not have even known about them, except for the scary underground room crawl-through that was supervised by a parent (he collected the penny entrance fee).

I don't recall anyone else in the neighborhood trying to raise as many critters as I did, though. I caught lizards, crickets, caterpillars, polywogs, and even brought home a snake or two, but my mother put her foot down on the snake-raising.

Long side trip, there.
Why don't kids play like that anymore? Seems odd that neighborhood children's behaviors would change that much in that short of a time span (we're talking about 20 or less years here). I understand that tv changed a lot of things, but we had tv and still played that way.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Close the blinds, draw the drapes,
shut the door, climb into bed with
something cuddly and drop into sleep.

Wake up when you smell the neighbors
cooking dinner.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

Ummm...with whom? :gotmyatte

 

Thanks, but I'll pass.

This 6-7 day work week is purely my own choice.

 

Ya, but that's different when you have a 7 figure salary, are partnered with a successful litigator that doesn't lose cases, have stock options and discounted timeshares in Aruba, a fleet of mercedes that serve as "company cars" used to entertain famous clientele that have you on retainer, personal 30% profit sharing above and beyond salary and a healthy golden parachute in the double digit millions should the partner decide to buy you out. I'd work damn hard to keep all of that. :yes:

 

I knew that. Thus the smiley face.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

As I was leaving to head home this morning, I paused for a bit to watch a flock of noisy cawing crows harrass and dive-bomb a very large hawk. The hawk was on the very top of a tree, enjoying (or so I think) the morning sun rising in the direction it was facing. It didn't seem very perturbed by the crows, but eventually flew off, immediately calming the crows.

I've never seen hawks as big as the ones I've seen here in this area. They appear bigger than eagles to me, although I don't see how they could be.

It's very strange. I've always heard that the animals get smaller in hot areas and larger in cold areas. Something to do with body heat and conserving energy I think. This must not hold true for insects, however, which are very large here, except for the tiny fire ants. Especially the spiders. They are very large indeed. And then there are the above mentioned hawks.

Anyone know anything about this?


To all who sleep tonight (not me) on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Stop thinking of things you cannot change
and sleep better.

Wake up and feed the cat.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

I saw on the National Geographics Channel that predators tend to be sized according to their prey and their prey are sized according to the amount of readily available food is present.

When the earth shifted it's continents and turned most of what was called Pangaea into plains full of grasslands, we got really big herbivores and so next we got huge predators.

I live in Central Florida and we have a great deal of hawks here too. I've found that most of the fish eating hawks tend to grow large here, possibly due to the amount of rivers and lakes present.

So in short, I've taken your simple off the cuff comment and once again put out waaaaaaaaay to much info. :Being_a_s

 

Like I never put out waaaaaay too much info with my simple off the cuff comments.

That explains the spiders then. The roaches are huge here.

Explains the elephants too, I guess. Since they came back to the land from the sea. The giant squids must have been a bit much.

But what explains the bears?