Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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Daisy, I think Dick Cheney would disagree with you.
LOL.
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Apparently I didn't pay much attention in those times when I was sent to Sunday school. When I took my youngest son, then 9, to see "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat" it was not until intermission when I figured out and was able to tell him that it was a bible story. Clever thing that he was, he heard in one of the songs reference to the chapter and verse for the story.
When we got home, we found the bible in the house (it on the kit list for Girl Guide camp for my daughter), looked up the section and found out that Joseph was the son of his father's favourite wife - there were a whole lot of wives. I was confused - it didn't seem like that pleasant a story or life for the less favourite wives. My son went on to find out some more when he took some theology at university - then he joined the army.
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Hi Layne ... I loved Sunday school and vacation Bible school when I was little. My favorite part was the arts and crafts ... and recess! I didn't like Lutheran day school though, it was very strict and the work was hard and the teacher was mean.
What's Cheney got to do with the atheist/agnostic/star loving/Buddhist thread? I think he is a Christian.
Hugs everyone,
Bren
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Madalyn .. the pic is so cute! You new "puppy" is precious!
Tank is just about six months now. I don't think he's going to be the "tank" I had hoped for. He's so wiggly .. everything makes him wiggle. I guess he's probably about 40-45 lbs now. He loves the water. I caught him in his pool in the rain last night! Geez .. what a mess he was! My fault cause I didn't empty his pool, but who would think that crazy dog would swim in the rain!
hugs to everyone,
Bren
EDITED: Forgot to mention that I got the results back from MRI today. I have moderate arthritis of C3 and 4. The bone is going inward towards the spinal cord. Ortho says I don't need surgery now .. woohoo! He said if the pain gets worse to call him and he will schedule an epidural (which scares me). He did prescribe some Flexeril for the muscle pain associated with this. The Vicodin doesn't always help, even with Advil as a chaser. Mostly, he just said I was getting old. Wasn't that sweet!
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Love that pic!!!!!
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Love the pic too, Madalyn! I'm a cat AND dog lover, and I have to say that dogs are much more generous than cats! Okay - dogs are generous, cats aren't
!Bren - here's hoping any operation is MANY years away for you!
Hugs to all, Linda
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Hey Daisy:
Layne was kind enough to provide some examples:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/30/cheney-eits/
http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/dick-cheneys-soviet-sense-of-humor/
Besides, how else can you explain waterboarding someone more than 100 times? It sure ain't because you're going to get any accurate information from him.
But that's my last word on this subject. Political talk is not appropriate for this thread.
My apologies for going off topic.
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Madalyn and Linda -
I observe Canada geese as I paddle by them on the Hudson River. I can't predict by proximity or whether they are facing me, if they are going to ignore me or start honking and taking off. There doesn't seem a particular distance that is ok, I wonder if they smell me and it therefore depends on the wind direction. Usually if there is a group, two will take off. I was thinking that these might be two males who are doing a diversion tactic, to keep me distracted from nesting females or goslings. The ones that stay on shore simply go about their business. Or maybe on one hand we have the panicky ones and on the other, the blase?
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Madalyn -- According to my "sources" (e-how) the gander stands about 3-6 inches taller than the female (but you gotta watch out for big goslings) and he will puff out his chest and hiss at you when you approach. Mother Goose, however, will continue to graze or will just keep her head close to the ground.
Now, if you really got up close and personal, you'd examine their behinds and you'll find the gander has a "protrusion". But I wouldn't do that if I were you
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Linda: a gander may do more than puff and hiss. Last spring I was walking on a bike path which goes alongside a river. There were multiple pairs of geese and a bunch of fuzz-ball babies. Cute as can be.
I gave them wide berth, walking along the far edge of the path trying to make it clear that I was harmless.
The next thing I remember was seeing this enormous goose who had somehow flown over me, turning in the air and coming at me. I ducked, then ran as fast as my little feet would take me.
Fortunately I didn't see anyone watching. It was both frightening and embarrassing, being chased off by a goose.
Canada geese are common at various points along the bike path but I have to admit that I don't enjoy them as much as I used to. Goose-phobic I guess.
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They do appear to have sentinel flock members. I don't know if it's always the same geese but I have noticed that there's always at least a couple who do nothing but watch.
I know this because I'm watching them as carefully as they're watching me!
But anybody who deliberately approaches the babies is an idiot.
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I've never approached baby geese, but once my horse and I tried to separate a calf from its momma. Good thing my horse was fast!
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Good thing you stayed on the horse
!Geese I'm not very fond of (except to eat) because they do leave their calling cards. But ducks, on the other hand......we've had so many pairs this season (with their babies) on the Niagara River. Male eiders have such gorgeous plumage -- I guess the females' brown feathers make it more difficult for predators to see them when they're nesting. Too bad they couldn't grow some pretty and bright "temporary" feathers. Humans --- always trying to re-arrange nature!
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We saw these...
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On Sunday, my SO and I went for a walk in the woodland near our subdivision, with Virgil, our 5 lb.Toy Fox Terrier. I saw three eagles, beautiful, circling around. I'm thinking they were eyeing Virgil as an afternoon snack. hehe
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could be blue...
here is a goose giving someone a talking to..
this was quite a sight..
hundreds of them in IdahoFalls last year
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Beautiful Lisa. They manage to stop traffic here as the motorists patiently wait for them to cross the streets. Like the borg, they have adapted to city life. Resistance is futile.
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Not I
and I ask you politely to please stop
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I was having a rough day, but the pics of the geese cheered me right up and inspired me to plan a trip with my bird watching friends to visit Cibola, AZ this winter......supposedly Canadian geese like to hang out there to enjoy the warm winter :> I've never gone bird watching before, but it's never a bad idea to try something new!! xx00xx lisa
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I've not seen Avatar since my daughter and I are stuck on Robert Downey Jr. at the moment. We did see Iron Man 2, though. An excellent movie with gratuitous sweaty-man scenes.
3D things are lost on me - my eyes are so weird that I can't see anything in 3D. Frustrating!
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Madalyn, I was also late to the Avatar party, and regretting it . . . like you, I watched it at home on my vintage, non-flat-screen TV. Totally agree that while the story was cliched, the effects were GORGEOUS. Friends who did see it in 3-D told me how much I missed.
Enjoyful, too bad we don't live closer, so that you, me and our two daughers could go on a Robert Downey, Jr. date! I'm kind of surprised more theaters don't market to a female audience by offering a double bill of, say, "Sherlock Holmes" followed by "Iron Man."
Chainsawz, I'm a lapsed birdwatcher who's getting back into it. Friends of mine, who are serious-verging-on-fanatical, vacationed in your neck of the woods a few years back just to look for new birds -- and came back triumphant, having seen a coppery-tailed trogon and getting eyeball-to-eyeball with a burrowing owl.
The thought of going somewhere to see Canada geese, though, makes me chuckle! Around here, I can hardly turn around without bumping into a goose (or stepping in goose-droppings). Like Rico, I'm goose-phobic after a few bad experiences while running. (Like the time one hissed at me, I hissed back, and was suddenly running for my life. I think there's a lesson there.)
L
EDITED to fix a particularly stupid typo.
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I've been trying to think of a new hobby to get myself out of the house -- thought of bird watching since they're so pretty but then thought, how uncool, only old fogies birdwatch. Now I read that Lewing used to do it -- well, revise preconceptions! Huh, maybe I've found a new hobby.
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Hey Elizabeth ... maybe stalking could be your new hobby! But you have to share with Enjoyful!
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Ooooh, isn't he delicious. Who, me, stalking sexy men? They stalk me!
Hmm, pretend I'm looking at birds but really be looking at the men -- great cover! I could specialize in birds at the beach!I've just been searching for info about green burial -- I really want to biodegrade! I didn't realize how unenvironmental cremation is.
Hey -- was that a big leap in subjects or what!
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Elizabeth .. what is green burial? Do they do something with your body or ashes to save the environment? How do we biodegrade? I just wanted to be wrapped in a nice clean sheet and put in the ground in my fields for the bugs and worms.
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Green burial is being put in a 100% biodegradeable coffin (i.e, no metal parts; made of local wood, cardboard or even wicker) or simple shroud. Buried straight into the ground without the hole being lined with steel or concrete so you can biograde into the soil immediately. And the burial place is free of pesticides, no man-made grave markers, all natural.
There are some green burial cemetaries in the US -- only 2 in Canada.
I want exactly what you do -- minus the sheet -- I want the buffet to being immediately for the bugs and worms. I've wanted this ever since I was little. I think I started wondering about this because of the joke my father used to make whenever I was sick -- he'd ask me if he should start digging the hole out behind our barn...
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I wonder if you can just be put in the ground on your own property or if you have to have some kind of permit. Out here, we have little cemetary designations, and they must be maintained even if the property is sold to a different family. Before I bought this house, I looked at a couple that had tiny little cemetaries on them. And the rules are, you have to put a little fence around them.
My next project is a rose garden with picket fence around it. I'm thinking this would be a good place to be eaten by bugs and worms. We just wouldn't tell anyone I was underneath a few roses.
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There are state and provincial laws that govern what can and can't be done. Since there are only 20 green burial sites in the US the rules must be quite stringent -- I'm just thinking of all us hippies and tree-huggers coming up to the age when we think of this stuff I'd expect a lot more cemetaries offering this.
It would be great if you can get what you want where you live BinVA! Your rose garden would be beautiful!
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WOW and a big thank you to Bren! As my daughter and I say...D-d-d-d-d-duh-duh-DAYUM!
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