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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 13, 2020 15:45:43 GMT -5
Photo of Tom Hanks, posing with a gift hospital staff gave him to ease the rigors of his quarantine:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Mar 20, 2020 21:16:54 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Mar 20, 2020 23:05:03 GMT -5
Did you all hear about China's "Cat Man"? I heard a thing about him on BBC radio about two or three weeks ago, when things were still bad over there. This veterinarian was visiting the houses of people quarantined away from their homes for weeks longer than they expected and feeding their pets for them. They called him the Cat Man because apparently cats make up the vast majority of Chinese pets. But he'd feed birds and doggos on his rounds, too.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 6, 2020 14:41:44 GMT -5
Normally, I don't go in for "home-despair-and-improvement" but this past weekend I managed to completely snake out a clogged kitchen drain line. The clog was about 20 feet down, so I'm really, really, glad I was able to get to it.
Cost savings: about $200.
No breaking social distancing to bring in a plumber.
It ain't much, but I'll take it.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 11, 2020 17:33:12 GMT -5
Both my refund checks came today. Heading now to the ATM to deposit them. Not that there's anything in the stores to buy with it.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 16, 2020 23:27:12 GMT -5
This majestic fellow is known colloquially as a "Devil's Horse". They are huge and usually look like this or mostly darker, almost blackish. I don't know if that helps determine their sex or anything. I know I had to gently remove it from my car before leaving for work the other day, and today, he's chilling on my lawn bag. Hell, probably living the good life on my lawn scraps. I tried to place my hand next to it for the photo, but it kept making this cute "Nope!" side feint and I didn't want to disturb it any more than necessary. I know there's one of the big dark ones living in the azaleas street side. Maybe they're mates!
I doubt my quote from June 27th, 2019 above will include the picture from the original post. It was a photo of a large cricket clinging to my leaf basket.
Anyway, here lately I've been noticing these little bands of inch-long black crickets around the yard. It's a long-shot, but I wonder if they're not the young of the eventually titan-sized crickets I see later on in Summer and early Autumn. Those are typically solitary, so I dunno.
Forgive the lousy nature picture. I took a bunch, but they little buggers always seemed acutely aware of me looming over them, trying to get a shot. I'll give a ground pic and a close-up below as attachments:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 20, 2020 17:24:38 GMT -5
That black carapace with the yellow racing stripe really makes a statement.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 20, 2020 20:02:21 GMT -5
That black carapace with the yellow racing stripe really makes a statement. Them's good eatin'. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 21, 2020 16:36:53 GMT -5
That black carapace with the yellow racing stripe really makes a statement. Them's good eatin'. And you know this because...? |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 21, 2020 20:25:19 GMT -5
And you know this because...? I have been a large carnivorous lizard for at least a year now? |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 21, 2020 23:54:54 GMT -5
Despite the daily dumpster fire the past 6+ weeks have been, the company apparently intends on this big reshuffling of positions and hours sometime by the end of May. Since I hadn't heard anything, I checked with the the store manager to find out if any of this might impact me, and it sounds like I'll be staying on my afternoon/evening shift (which I prefer) doing what I'm doing.  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 22, 2020 10:40:02 GMT -5
Happy Earth Day to all! I have noticed how fragrant and clean the air smells when I sit outside enjoying the midnight quiet.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 22, 2020 11:24:40 GMT -5
Happy Earth Day to all! I have noticed how fragrant and clean the air smells when I sit outside enjoying the midnight quiet. This is an Earth Day worthy of the name for sure. Of course it's snowing where I am but the shutdown has certainly cleared the air of combusted dead dinosaurs. I also appear to have trillium coming up, or they might be Jacks In Their Pulpits. |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 27, 2020 5:06:32 GMT -5
I will refrain, in the happiness thread, from saying what I think about Menald and Dolania holding an Earth Day photo-op, like they give a shit.
This will seem like an odd (and even bourgeois) thing to be happy about, but: There is this homeless man who sleeps on 55th Street about a half a block west of Fifth Avenue. I walk down that block most mornings as I'm wrapping up my morning constitutional. I've never spoken to him, mainly because he's usually asleep when I go past and also because I'm usually on the other side of the street so I can stop at Dunkin' Donuts (when it was open, that is). He's always either on the sidewalk itself or, if it's raining or something, in a fairly spacious doorway/alcove of the building he sleeps in front of. Anyway, I've seen him consistently, even since this situation arose, and then the other morning, he was gone. Thankfully, the very next day, he was back. More power to him. I've got to find some way to give him something one of these mornings. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 2, 2020 18:58:20 GMT -5
My lemon Easter bunnies came in the mail on the same day I saw a PAIR of sing sparrows. I have never seen more than one at a time and then only once every 5 years or so.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 8, 2020 23:14:21 GMT -5
I mowed today, and am now fairly sure that those crickets I spoke of above are indeed the ones that'll eventually grow finger-sized. They're now about inch and a half long. There's fewer than a couple of weeks ago. I did my damnedest not to run over any. I'm sure they're hell on the plants, but I want big crickets come late summer.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 9, 2020 1:32:55 GMT -5
I mowed today, and am now fairly sure that those crickets I spoke of above are indeed the ones that'll eventually grow finger-sized. They're now about inch and a half long. There's fewer than a couple of weeks ago. I did my damnedest not to run over any. I'm sure they're hell on the plants, but I want big crickets come late summer. Make sure to prepare your farmland er, yard for 'em by turning over the soil...just one or two sticks should make a nice big hole for 'em to nest and lay eggs... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 9, 2020 10:00:44 GMT -5
I mowed today, and am now fairly sure that those crickets I spoke of above are indeed the ones that'll eventually grow finger-sized. They're now about inch and a half long. There's fewer than a couple of weeks ago. I did my damnedest not to run over any. I'm sure they're hell on the plants, but I want big crickets come late summer. Make sure to prepare your farmland er, yard for 'em by turning over the soil...just one or two sticks should make a nice big hole for 'em to nest and lay eggs...
Unfortunately, much of my property is sand and clay, so it's amazing anything grows at all. Been actually considering these shoes I saw for aerating soil. They're basically like track cleats, but longer and sharper.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 9, 2020 21:42:38 GMT -5
Make sure to prepare your farmland er, yard for 'em by turning over the soil...just one or two sticks should make a nice big hole for 'em to nest and lay eggs...
Unfortunately, much of my property is sand and clay, so it's amazing anything grows at all. Been actually considering these shoes I saw for aerating soil. They're basically like track cleats, but longer and sharper.
A real shame. Them's good eatin'...  |
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Post by Lemmy Caution on May 9, 2020 21:46:19 GMT -5
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