a ‘normal’ conversation in my van…

pops: twins beat the blue jays

P: who won?

pops: the twins

P: twins won 6 to 3

 

it would not have gone any different if I started with the last statement by P

Humming birds visited the flowers and feeder as I sat on the patio with my morning coffee.  They fought over the nectar.  One flew in and out of a swarm of insects, picking off  tasty morsels.

A red squirrel was cutting pine cones, dropping them to the ground to pick up later and take to his winter storehouse.  A chipmunk gathered sunflower seeds until his cheeks were so full they were larger than his head.

A nuthatch picked a sunflower seed and took it to a tree where she stuck it under the bark for a later meal.

Hairy and downy woodpeckers came to the suet feeder.  Morning doves ate seeds dropped by the finches and chickadees.

An enjoyable morning spent with my furry and feathered neighbors.

Pops

In Florida, an atheist created a case against the upcoming Easter and Passover Holy days. He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews and observances of their holy days. The argument was that it was unfair that atheists had no such recognized days.

 The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the passionate presentation by the lawyer, the judge banged his gavel declaring “Case dismissed!”

 The lawyer immediately stood objecting to the ruling saying, “Your honor, How can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and others. The Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, yet my client and all other atheists have no such holidays.”

The judge leaned forward in his chair saying, “But you do. Your client, counsel, is woefully ignorant.”

The lawyer said, “Your Honor, we are unaware of any special observance or holiday for atheists.”

The judge said, “The calendar says April 1st is April Fools Day. Psalm 14:1 states, ‘The fool says in his heart, there is no God.’ Thus, it is the opinion of this court, that, if your client says there is no God, then he is a fool. Therefore, April 1st is his day. Court is adjourned.”

Today I saw my first two snapping turtles out to lay their eggs.

On Friday I drove a senior route, picking up a few elderly DD (developmentally disabled) folks.  There are only six people on this particular route so my fifteen passenger van had lots of room.  But, three of the ladies all sat on one seat right behind me.  And their conversation goes…

“Do you know why the golfer wore two pants?  In case he got a hole in one!”

“The pregnant ballerina should have danced all night!”

Then picked up my adults.  Never to disappoint me, P tells me he is going to a birthday party for his grandpa and he was going to have a “bump”.  Yup, a drink, he says. 

These folks know how to have a good time.

Pops

An Indigo Bunting has been visiting our bird feeder.  Mom noticed it first.  It’s a beautiful light blue all over with dark areas on its wings and tail.

Pops

Pops was standing by the railroad track, his heart was all a flutter.  Down the track came a railroad train, Pop waved, the engineer tooted. 

Pop had a very good morning.

Pops

I have a quote for you, let me know if you can identify the source of the statement or cause for the attack.

“The Republic was never in greater danger than at this moment…The sway of Cesar and the tyranny of Nero follow!”

Pops

For the past week I have been unable to open Internet Explorer after downloading the latest update, IE-8.  After much cur..strike that, pain, I simply uninstalled the dmnd thing.  Life is back to normal, or as much as Vista can be.

Now that may sound very basic to all you wiz kids, but this is an old curmudgeon working this electronic gadget so it’s big stuff in these parts,

Pops

Today I replaced the faucet in the bathroom.

Everyone needs to get the drips out of their life, eventually.

Pops