Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Bright sun and cold, 28 degrees. But it is supposed to get above freezing today! Looked in the back yard and saw a chickadee, two purple finches, and some tiny yellow-breasted bird on the feeders.

Have been reading Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and loving it.

Not sure what's on the agenda today, so have a couple of news articles. For folks who read the recent collaborative fic Roll the Bones, I think this might be one of Colt's long-lost cousins -- man in hospital gown steals fifty bucks, tries to escape on Walmart scooter. Also, guys will stick their dicks in anything. And then not be able to get them out. Heh.

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[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

I saw that second story yesterday, and what I thought was funny? Is that this is not the first time they've seen this kind of thing.

In Florida it was usually the, um, intake valves of swimming pool or jacuzzi pumps.

So anyway, I'm home right now, have showered, have gone to bank, and need to motivate self to do the rest of the Stuff on my List. I suppose it's time to put on my shoes and some music.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Heh. I am pretty sure I remember an incident from Dick Cavett's autobiography in which he was about 12 years old and dared a friend to stick his in a vacuum cleaner hose. While it was on.

;-)

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

But the real question is, did his friend actually do it? And if so, what was the result?

I can absolutely see kid!House daring someone to do the same kind of thing. Or lying and telling the other kid that it was fun, he'd done it himself. Heh.

Okay, I've managed the "shoes on" part and I feel somewhat more "together" (it'll help when my hair dries), so. Time for music and some kind of productivity.

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I am not going there, I am so not going there...

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO WRITE IT, TOPAZ.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

He did! And I think what happened was that Cavett said his friend's face turned bright red, the vacuum cleaner roared, and, in a huge anticlimax, shut itself down. It's been MANY years since I read the book, but I remember it was terrific.

And absolutely yes on kid!House. Hee.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

I loved 'The Botany of Desire' too, and find myself quoting it a lot.
My book club discussed which plant we would feel unable to live without. I voted for wheat, though sugar cane would be a close second! In reality, microscopic aquatic plants that form the bottom of the food chain would probably be most essential.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I've been reading parts of it out loud to Mr. N! I've finished "The Apple" and have started "The Tulip."

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Terrific, both parts. I wish he'd wrote about the grape too.
The part I remember most vividly is the potato, partially because I'm an agrologist and partially because, well, you'll understand when you read it.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

Oops, I meant add this link about how the annual Canadian Tulip Festival got started. It's interesting, especially when you consider how devastated the Netherlands were by WWII. Coming up with that many tulips may not have been easy.
http://www.tulipfestival.ca/en/festival_history.html

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

microscopic aquatic plants that form the bottom of the food chain would probably be most essential.

That would be my vote. I read an article once saying the amount of oxygen produced by algae is much greater than the amount produced by all terrestrial plants.

Mmmm, kelp fry...

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

LJ keeps eating my comments -- gah! The first story definitely reminded me of Colt and Lorna, but ours had a much happier ending. :) Dude must have really pissed her off if she used a skillet AND a table leg!

It's cold but sunny today and the ice on the roads is melting away. Maybe things will be back to normal by tomorrow. The mister and I have ventured out to buy him a pair of shoes and I need to do some cooking in just a bit.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

This! And then he meets an ex-girlfriend, and he's STILL IN HIS HOSPITAL GOWN, and he steals fifty bucks from her! And tries to escape on an ELECTRIC SCOOTER! Oh my God.

We've been very lazy so far today, but Mr. N is going to the store sometime this afternoon. We had steak last night, so I think tonight it's chicken and dumplings.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

You could not make that stuff up. :D

Corgiguy is having the last of the leftover steak tonight, so I need to get some chicken out of the freezer for tomorrow. And make bread and sausasge-biscuits.

I'm reading The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words (http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780452288614-0) by Anu Garg. It's a neat little book.

*Edited because I hit post in the middle of the sentence.