Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUE!!!
(Love the firecrackers up the butt idea!)
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Both my husband and I wish to be creamated and buried at the nearest
National Cemetery..simple..
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Happy Birthday, Blue! May you enjoy many, many more b-day celebrations with your SO!
Lisa, for those of us north of the border, what constitutes a "national" cemetery? Wait, let me re-phrase that -- what is a national cemetery? (I think I know what constitutes it.....)
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Sending more birthday wishes Blue's way. And I love, love, love the statuette idea. I even like the idea of little statuettes eventually winding up in garage sales, and being picked up by someone as a curiosity.
Konakat, I hope you do take up birdwatching. Seriously, the cool thing about it is, you can see different kinds of birds almost anywhere. And the even cooler thing is, it's an excuse to carry binoculars to the beach and, you know, check things out.
Linda
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a US National Cemetery is where Veterans are buried..and their family...but both of us are veterans...
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Thank you Ladies. I had a blast.
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Mommy Duck moved her nest today. All the eggs are gone and we saw the couple in the yard of a house on the corner that is empty.
Bummer. My husband is taking it hard! He is so disappointed! He wanted so badly to be a Duckling Papa!
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Blue!
Hope you had a terrific birthday! You look positively glowing in your photo. :-)
There's a mourning dove that keeps visiting my deck. I wonder if she's considering nesting in one of my potted plants?
Kook-E
:-)
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Doves are such placid, dare I say peaceful? creatures. We had one nesting in an outer branch of the linden tree just outside our house in Toronto. The day we moved, the moving guys were amazed that she stayed right there -- within about 3 vertical feet of them - as they carried our furniture out to the truck!
Michele, I wonder how mamma duck moved the eggs? Did she carry them in her mouth, or did she roll them? Darn, I wish these birds would "move house" in the daytime!
Enjoyful -- we have a gorgeous Baltimore Oriole who has just joined our avian friends here!
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I should put an olive branch outside and see if the dove carries it around.
Orioles are beautiful birds! Ironically, I rarely see them in my neck of the woods. I hope your Oriole builds a nest nearby. They're quite amazing architectural feats!
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Linda, my daughter said she likely moved them in her mouth.
If she had rolled them, she would have had to roll them down our driveway out into the street, down the street 3 houses and then up another curb and into the empty house's undergrowth.
There were only 4 eggs, so she could have moved them in her mouth. Oh well!
But we DID see some awesome dragonflies in our koi pond today! One is darn near as big as a small bat! The bulk of his body is as thick as my thumb!
I lurv dragonflies! I like to imagine them as fairies in disguise!
Here are a couple of pics from our more frequent dragonfly visitor last year.
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Hehe, Madalyn re: checking the pool!
The daddy duck LOVES our pool, and our koi pond.But this would have been way too early for them to hatch. There was only one egg in the nest earlier this week. There were four by the end of the week, so she was still in the process of laying them. I've read it takes about 27 days for them to incubate and hatch.
Now my husband wants to build a duck nest/box in our backyard in the corner, out of the way, so that we can get a duck couple to move in next year.
I tried to tell him that maybe we really don't want to be purposely attracting ducks, but he has a stubborn streak!
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On Friday on my way to work I almost drove over a pair of Canadian Geese with their 13 goslings...
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13?! How almost unlucky for them!
There's a small bridge on my way to work, and every year a duck leads her ducklings across the bridge during rush hour. At least one liberal do-gooder stops their car and blocks traffic so that the duck & family can cross safely. It must be a town of do-gooders since no one lays on the horn or shouts obscenities. *muttering darkly about rush hour ducks*
Susan, Social Liberal Unless It Stops Traffic
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Ez .. the dragonfly pics are spectacular! I can't believe how close you got to them!
We actually had pet geese when we were little kids. I hated them. They were mean and they pooped everywhere. I was so happy when my dad finally took them to a lake!
Enjoyful ... you're funny! I'm a social liberal until somebody or something gets on my nerves. Then I'm a "Get the F--- Out of My Way" party member! This most often happens in Wallymart.
hugs all,
Bren
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We have a family of bunny rabbits in our yard...two of the little ones fell in the pool and drown...so sad for the mommy rabbit....but I have to add they are pests about eating everything...we do accommodate them somehow...
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Foxes "domesticate" pretty quickly. I live in the mountains and we have a resident fox pair who just hang out near the deck. The cats are not intimidated (not in the food chain, I guess), the turkeys run from them, the deer try to chase them, and I never see them when the bear is around.
Not that I blame them!
Anne
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When we lived in downtown Toronto, I looked out my bedroom window one day and was stunned to see a red fox and the neighbour's 20-lb cat at a stand-off! They were about 15 feet apart. Finally the fox gave in and the cat chased her down the length of our property towards the ravine one street over!
Here in Niagara, our neighbour about 6 doors down told me that a fox had created a den in her back yard (it slopes down towards the river) and had given birth to 7 kits. She said she hasn't watched TV since! It's too entertaining watching the kits come out to play
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when we were on vacation, our neighbor told us a coyote had taken a sun bath on our roof..
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I wish I had foxes in my yard . . . both for the entertainment value and as rabbit deterrents. I surprised a rabbit in my herb/salad garden the other day, its mouth full of something green.
The most unusual wildlife I see around here are pheasants, which have recolonized the city and are spreading into leafy suburbs like mine. This time of year, I see the males strutting and crowing (they sound kind of like roosters); in years past, June has brought big family groups of pheasant chicks.
Linda
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We actually have a minor problem with coyotes this year in, of all places, Louisville, KY. I actually saw a dead one on the side of the road a few days ago.
I knew we had bobcats, but this is the first I've heard of coyotes!
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If I had pheasants and rabbits in my yard, I would be coaxing them into a pot for dinner! mmmmmm.
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3monstamama, I'm always threatening to do that, but my daughter yells at me.
There's a population of coyotes around here that's causing a major freak-out. Some of it is maybe justified (they've killed a few small dogs), but most of it is (IMHO) a total overreaction. F'rinstance, one night last winter, I witnessed a coyote stakeout: four cop cars had cordoned off a several-block area because a coyote-sighting had been called in. They've even - I kid you not - used snipers to pick them off.
L
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lewing, ah well my monsters would be yelling too but more like "Only One! but mama, I'm hungry!!" and "mama, I want a leg!!!!!!"
We have racoons around us. One likes to walk up the hill past our house. We leave them alone and they leave us alone. I wish we had foxes or coyotes because yesterday we saw a rat in the yard and if we had foxes or coyotes, there would be fewer rats. We had more coyotes when we lived in LA, in the parts as you get towards the hills and the canyons and they were known to catch/kill cats that people allowed outside. As I am a firm believer that one shouldn't let your domestic animal run around unsupervised, I always felt more sorry for the cat than the people. In our current neighborhood, in addition to the racoons, we have kestrals [a type of falcon] but the rats are staying close to bushes and the like so the kestral can't get it.
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I note that some southern politicians who are maybe a little too dependent on the oil industry are declaring that the oil gushing into the Gulf is an "act of God". Hmmmmm.....
Madalyn -- your Mem. Day visit to the Chinese restaurant made me think of the movie "A Christmas Story" with Darren McGavin. After a series of very funny mishaps (including the dog who ate the turkey) the family ended up at a Chinese restaurant for Christmas Dinner -- serenaded by Chinese waiters singing Christmas carols
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isn't the southern part of the US the most religous quadrant of the country? if the oil is an "act of god" does that mean that god is mad at them????? hmmmmm. the oil makes me sad. I am taking a cowardly approach and trying not to read anything.
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Madalyn - Hot and humid here as well. We didn't have a cookout or Chinese food Monday, but my ex and I bought our daughter a new car. That was fun!! And A Christmas Story is one of my favorite movies of all time. :-)
Linda - I had not heard that. Which politicians are claiming the Acts of God clause?? I heard Rand Paul say that sometimes things just happen and it's nobody's fault...LOL. You can say that about tornadoes and hurricanes, I guess, but I don't think that applies to things built and operated by people.
I'm with you, mama - it's too sad to be borne. My heart goes out to all those affected. A total and utter tragedy.
E
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I imagine God is mad at the south. ha! What other explanation could there be for our troubles.
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