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Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

I have to admit, "Hedgey" (as I've come to call your pet) is awfully cute.

Maybe you should start a thread in support of him (if you can keep G's hound away!).

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Thank God my zipper was (mostly) up!

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Consider that Mother Nature or whatever might've had a pack of rabid hedgehogs attack me. Zeus only knows what horrific damage they would've done. As it is, my head's just a bit swollen is all.

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Could've been a lot worse is what I'm sayin'.

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

I thoughts so. I meant, what an odd way for the "someone up there" to express affection.

At least the gods/God didn't send a plague of locusts or something, you know?

RE: WHY can't They Just LAY DOWN ?

Weird. I thought you might be talking about Republicans...

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Well, first, Nature, I'm glad that some witch or whatever didn't turn you into a hedgehog (my first thought...maybe Zell??). Yeah, in all seriousness I don't believe I send very many creatures to meet their...maker(s?). I could see the frogs hopping and the snakes slithering well in advance of my arrival. I'm hoping not too many were napping.



Gee, that would be nice if there were someone "up there" like me (though I've heard we were made in the image of gods/God, so...? ).

I think you meant, "somebody up there likes ya." What an odd way of expressing affection, if that's the case?

RE: When i can not make you love me

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Thanks, V. Fortunately, I have done plenty of bad things that deserve punishment!

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Checking her meds, moving crap out of her house, dealing with the Social Security Administration and sundry government officials, consulting with doctors (duties shared with my oldest son) and so forth.

When the hornets were stinging me I thought: Is this how altruism feels?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

That wasn't aimed at me, was it?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Are they deep thoughts, Eag? Can you at least tell me that much?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Yeah, I've read some of books as well. Very entertaining reading...and I was thinking a bit of him at the time...resolving that if any cows or sheep or horses were in the yard I wouldn't attempt to mow over them.

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Heh. Clever commercial. That's a point I've made to the "save the mosquito" bunch.

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Well, she's not on her death bed...and while I'm not opposed to white lies at times, I do prefer to avoid them whenever possible. It smacks of being patronizing to, in effect, pat her on the head and say: "Yes, dear, of course dear, I will do such and such." I would do that if she truly were fairly far-gone mentally or physically, though...

RE: Government should NOT be able to control the Value Of Money....

Would you be okay, IV, with our government outlawing private ownership of gold, silver, and other precious metals?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

Did I lose you at the end, Grizz?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

You have a bias against snakes, I'm guessing. I have to say, I did find their slithering about somewhat annoying...if not a bit unnerving.

Yeah, I know of a person or two who would capture insects - even mosquitoes! - and transfer them to safety rather than kill them. Even my ex-wife doesn't go that far.

There were, it seemed, hundreds of frogs leaping before my eager blades...I honestly think I could've spent an extra hour at least chasing them around. And after depositing them in the aforementioned weed patch, what was stopping them from springing out again before my chariot of slaughter?

I did wonder, though, if I shouldn't have simply told my ex-wife that yes, I would do everything possible to avoid an animal holocaust?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

You really think it was merely random? That Mother Earth wasn't sending me a message?

Saving All Creatures Semi-Great and Small (or: Nature's Revenge?)

While mowing my ex-wife's lawn (one of many joyous chores that has come to be my lot since her stroke several months ago), I noticed the lawn was literally writhing with frogs, snakes, and even a bird nest or bunny or two, but I nonetheless forged full-speed ahead, the rider mower's blades delivering all flesh in its path to what I hoped was a fairly pleasant animal-afterlife.

Then my ex-wife strode out in my path and demanded that I cease such deliveries, asking that I drive more slowly and also, when the opportunity arose, take the time to physically capture frogs and snakes and deposit them in a massive weed path at the end of her property.

I imagine I regarded her with pained disdain, or perhaps disbelieving disdain, as I declined what I thought was an impossible and pointless Stygian labor. The lawn required three body and groin-banging hours as it was. I could scarcely imagine adding Zeus-knew how many additional hours saving the "grass creatures."

My ex-wife was not happy, but retired with hung head, knowing that I was already doing her a service (one among many). As I continued my lawn-mowing death march, I reflected both on the ethical question of whether I ought to be making some effort to avoid this animal slaughter (or perhaps slaughter them more sensitively?) and on my brusque dismissal of my ex-wife's concern. Should I have been more respectful of her? Should I have at least paid lip-service to her idea of saving the creatures?

Later, I wondered if I were being punished for my human arrogance as I paused to refill the lawnmower with gas, and suddenly felt a sharp burning in my left ear and scalp, which happened just as I started the mower so I assumed might've been due to an object deflected from the mower blade - perhaps heated by contact with the blade - but as the pain seemed to grow (and multiply!), I wondered what the *$*! was going on. Remembering a special friend's advice about treating a burn with cold water (to prevent the burning from continuing), I turned off the mower and started to sprint for the nearest water hose.

But the moment I turned off the mower, I heard a symphony of buzzing, and realized instantly the hot-poker pains weren't due to the mower throwing hot stuff at me. In a flash I noticed the hornet's nest on the roof of the garage, which was now spewing a swarm of self-righteously enraged hornets.

As I backed away, frantically swatting at the yellow-jacket hordes, I spotted a can of WD40 on a nearby shelf, and reached for it (few things in life, I've observed, cannot be solved by baling wire, duct tape, and WD40 ), hastily spraying a cloud in the path of the hornet special forces assault team while praying for a yet another Wd40 miracle.

Strangely enough - several stings later - my desperate weapon of choice actually worked. It seems, as I suspected, that insects don't do well coated with mineral spirits, and they began, as a group, to fall from the air. Eventually, I killed many of them and destroyed their nest.

But now I'm wondering if there might've been some cosmic justice involved for my disrespecting both the creatures and my wife's entreaties?

Thoughts?

RE: Forty one days with Daddy.......

Sorry for your loss, and happy for what he gave you.

RE: I've just seen ...

Yeah, same with me. Probably 99% my profile views are triggered by wondering about a poster.

RE: I've just seen ...

Yeah, I don't know about you, RD, but I find it rather disconcerting when people change their profile photos like that...

RE: I've just seen ...

Yeah, now that makes perfect sense to me, Eag.

RE: I've just seen ...

That makes sense, and I don't mean to imply that women lack common sense about the WVM. From previous readings, I have had the impression, however, that women find it more significant than men do. By that I mean that in previous threads some women have wondered why WVM don't contact them, that kind of thing.

RE: I've just seen ...

That's a relief.

RE: I've just seen ...

I've even been thanked for viewing someone's profile (on a few occasions).

I can only speak for myself here, but I've viewed...I don't know...maybe a hundred profiles?...and of those viewings maybe two had anything remotely resembling a romantic interest for me. Of course, it's always possible you might find something that could generate that kind of interest when viewing a profile. My favorite profile - one that generated tons of interest! - involved a very ballsy handle that remains my favorite to this day.

RE: I've just seen ...

Not meaning to put words into anyone's mouth...but my impression (from a brief perusal of this thread) is that some women think there's something significant, like an indication of romantic interest, in being viewed. Am I wrong in thinking that?

RE: Thumbs up...thumbs down.

They certainly don't add anything positive. At best, they're ignorable, and worst they're slightly annoying. The best way to express approval or disapproval of a post is to comment on it, in my view.

Not Sure How Many Realize Profile Color Scheme Can Be Changed

Passionate Pink??