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LOL! That’s a great shot.
And it reminds me how glad I am that Pyrs are not “kissers” — I mean given the size of their tongues.
Not to mention what it would feel like when they pounced on you in order to attack your nose.
Yeah, not to mention that.
I’m still recovering from Luna grabbing my calf last week with one of her front paws in an attempt to convince me to wrestle with her. Unfortunately my calf was bare at the time so it left a bloody scrape about 12 inches long and all sorts of pretty colors.
Of course, it was my fault for not keeping her dew claws trimmed and blunted.
Should those kind of unintentional injuries be called dogslaughter?
Giddy has suddenly developed a new habit where she’ll leave her dog bed during the night and sleep on the floor right by my side of the bed so that if I get up in the night, I trip over her. So far I’ve only suffered a pulled muscle from trying not to fall which is good because I’d hate to have to go to the emergency room and explain I’d hurt myself by tripping over my dog.
In your case, I’d amend that to Dogslaughter Falls.
ps Imogen just saw our first Spotted Pardalote!
I thought for sure you were going to say “dogslobber”.
But Dogslaughter Falls is a great find.
Nifty bird.
Damn. Dogslobber. How did I miss that? 😉
The don’t call the Spotted Pardolote the “diamond bird” for nothin’.
latest critter casa’s from jfi…aka: da’ bro
clik
don’t know how the birds react to it…probably prefer a more conventional abode
clik
enjoy
later
Bro’s got talent and a sense of humor (and a very fine work shop from the looks of it).
A picture of George out by the pond. Notice the tall weeds by the pond. Lot of snakes out there. 🙁
Is the frown because you don’t like snakes, are worried George will get bitten, or because you’ll have to mow the weeds.
Any poisonous snakes in your neighborhood?
I still remember my first introduction to Australia’s poisonous snakes. I found a small snake in the back yard of the house we rented when we first got here. It was in very poor shape so I put in a box with the idea of contacting a wildlife rescue organization.
I called Imogen at work to ask her who to call. Of course, the first words out of my mouth were, “Are any tasmanian snakes poisonous?” To which she replied, “All of them. What have you done?”
Alas, the the little White-lipped snake, which is only mildly venomous, expired shortly thereafter.
And before anyone chides me for picking up snakes, I have excellent snake handling skills from long years of practice in snake rich environments – mostly relocating them from our house or barn to wilder accomodations.
And speaking of wilder accomodations, I’ve captured my third mouse in the house in the last 24 hours, and I really should get dressed so that I can drive it up the hill and release it.
Yep the last snake I saw out by the pond was a water moccasin. I’ve had plenty of experience with snakes too. It’s usually with yelling a curse and running as fast as I can. 🙂
Which is the appropriate response to a water moccasin. I’ve never seen one, and never hope to.
The really poisionous snake in our neck of the woods is called a Tiger Snake. During their breeding season they’ve been known to chase people. I’ve seen one a few kilometres futher up our road.
We get Copperheads in our yard – which though venomous, lack fangs. I’ve already relocated one, and plan on relocation the other if I see it again.
keres you have more guts than I do. I guess I have a severe phobia about snakes. I can’t even stand to see them on the tv.
I worked in a detox facility one time and we had a man going through DTs. He was seeing snakes on the wall. I knew he was hallucinating, but I didn’t like going into that room.
Not guts, just an inappropriately low level of fear when it comes to critters. Although you know, bears and the like, I’m very respectful of – I may be brash, but I’m not dumb.
Ridiculously, I hate black crikets (the ones that look like little Darth Vaders), and I’m still thrown by the local spiders, although I’m getting better as they become more familiar.
Around here snakes are the only thing I have a problem with. I can understand how Manny feels about spiders because of my feelings about snakes. But for me it’s only snakes.
Crickets? That’s your bane? 🙂
So speaketh the spider man. 🙂
I can assure you that hunstmen spiders like this one have her squeaking for me to come and rescue her too.
And so I charge in, small squat kinght-ette usually pyjama’d, weilding my cup and piece of paper. 😀
I feel so brave and needed 😉
that hunstmen do move very fast which can be quite unnerving.
But despite the look of them, they are almost entirely harmless. They very, very rarely try to bite, and you practically have to help them do it, because if you look at the picture, you’ll notice that their pincers close side to side, not down, so they can’t “fang” you, just pinch-bite. And given the small width, you have to try really hard to get bit. If you do, it causes swelling and general discomfort for a day or two, but nothing life-threatening.
hi! you don’t actually think I looked at the horrible creature in detail, do you? 🙂
I opened up the pic because I can never resist, then promptly screamed to myself with a gasping look on my face, and closed it as quickly as possible 😀
those look exactly like the creatures from the movie Arachnophobia, i would probably lose my mind if i came in contact with one. it’s bad enough the jumping wolf spiders are out in force lately. [shudder]
I’m not that mean 😉
Don’t worry, I’m not advocating for them as pets or anything.
That link myriad put up shows a Huntsman spider at actual size. Not that I have a problem with Wolf spiders or Tarantulas, ‘cuz they’re familiar.
And very fast isn’t the half of it. Huntsman run down their prey and I can’t see any critters out-running them.
I actually took one outside all by myself the other day. I was dusting, and what I took to be a very large dustbunny turned out to be a very dusty Huntsman. Boy was I suprised when the “dust” started to walk away from the cloth. Poor thing was a bit bedragled looking so wrapped it in my cloth and carried it out.
And as for the black crickets (the grey ones are fine), I have no idea why I dislike them so, but I won’t willingly go near one. It’s just a personal pecadillo.
I would be absolutely worthless if I had to extract one of those. You have my utmost respect, keres, from valiantly battling that walking dustbunny. [shudder]
I’m contemplating the sanity of even sharing the same planet with something that hideous.
Here`s a picture of a cougar a girlfriend drew for me when I showed surprise, when she said she could draw quite well. She brought this back the next day, after my daughter challenged her to draw the cat on the cover of a North American Predators magazine.
beautiful and evocative, great fine control.
Thanks myriad,
I was totally astonished when she gave it to me the next day. It`s done with white chalk pastel on a black board. She has also done some sculptures for me as gifts. The drawing was done in 1991 but I just re-found it while cleaning up my office last week.
Next time I see you here, I`ll post a sculpture from her. It`s called the “Birth of Man” & she surprised me with it on my birth day.
Good night, & you get a pic I took last night of one of my fish. This one is a Hawkfish.
Hi Knucklehead! Been missin’ yer pix, nice to ‘see’ you
looks like you have a lovely tropical tank going there – good night!
I think that fish has some serious ‘Tude.
That’s lovely. White chalk or pastel on dark paper can have a very stunning effect. I’ve done it a few times myself.
Bud says hello (briefly, before plopping over for a nap)
That’s the face that says, “hurry up and take the picture, I feel a power nap coming on.”