“You dont know me but my name is %TIF. My friend and I were at a party the other night and I saw you there. I really wanted to meet you that night, I thought you looked like a really nice guy and that you were good looking too 😛 I had to leave the party so I asked my friend to get your email address for me and she did. I would like to meet you. I hope to hear back from you 🙂 “
I look like a really nice guy, eh? Hmmm…
I have a pair of woodpeckers that like my suet. Usually I see either the male or the female but rarely both at the same time. THe female flies into my windows once in a while. Just now I watched as the female hung out on one post while the male got some suet and brought it over to her. Awwwwwwww. Very sweet. They are “Hairy Woodpeckers” (I’m sure based on the song which you can listen too from that link) although I did wonder if they may be “Yellow bellied sapsuckers”.
I can completely understand Heather’s reaction to this.
I’m sorry but I actually wrote and did not post a similar paragraph last week after seeing yet another horror story in the news – a woman and her grandmother being murdered and dismembered by her former boyfriend and then a man in NYS lining up his 4 kids with the intention of killing them all. Now today a story of another murder and beheading in Hollywood. I have never seen news like this in all of my life. Well, over the years a few. But recently there have been more than a few. Is it truly a daily event but has been covered up until now?
I met Graham at a craft show in Vermont 4 summers ago. I was so drawn to her work and her personality that I spent a good part of the afternoon hanging out with her and also bought one of her pieces. We have only communicated a bit since then, but kept saying “when I’m in your neck of the woods…”
Last night another wonderful Vermont artist, Daryl Storrs was at my house. She saw Graham’s piece and told me this terrible, tragic news which I was unaware of.
At Sea World, there were 3 caricature artists lined up doing drawings of people. Each artist had a very different style. For example, Steele Price got the “Hollywood movie star” artist. I sat for a pic with Renee Rieser and we got the artist that every politician fears – well, thank goodness we don’t have big ears. We got the “exaggerate everything” artist. I have never been unaware that I have a large nose… but those teeth and that little dangling chin! LOL! Well, I guess I smile a lot. Anyway, Renee and I are reversed when standing with the pic (and the artist who is holding it). The drawing on the left is Renee and the one on the right is [supposedly] me 🙂
Last year I was using my pitchfork to get big clumps of grass out of my raised bed when I decided to plant in it after all. After one particular hearty plunge into the grass, I raised up the pitchfork to find a poor froggie half-way up one of the tines – skewered. It took me a while to get over being the perpretrator of that tragedy.
Well, I just came in from my foray with the weedeater in the grass and weeds that grow out by our split rail fence where there are also a lot of plantings. I just can’t do it any more. I know I’m going to go to amphibian hell now when I die. I accidentally weedwhacked a poor garden snake in half. I stood out there for 10 minutes saying “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry” and just could’t bare to turn the thing back on again. I guess I’ll let Rich whack my beautiful plants if need be…
whaaaaaaa… poor little snake. It’s not even like it was a worm. Remember 10th grade biology? Cut a worm in half and you just have two worms…no problem.
Poor little snake. I’ll just sit here at my computer where I can’t do any harm…
Have you ever seen that written down? Did you think it was kitten caboodle (and completely non-sensicle) like I did?
What other oft-used phrases fall into this category? Frequently used, but not really the words you think they are?
Here’s a song that my dad used to sing to me when I was a kid and it was years before I understood that it wasn’t gibberish.
oh no – the blue jays have discovered my bird feeders!