A small update on the retired racing Greyhounds from the trip to Valdosta, GA last week.
We are fostering one of the boys. He is now ball less. Took him to the vet for teeth cleaning and neutering.
Poor fellow, uprooted from your racing home, travel by van to another state, at home with two crazy Greyhound people and now your manhood has been taken away.
Not so happy in Nashville, Otto, now singing soprano.
We are fostering one of the boys. He is now ball less. Took him to the vet for teeth cleaning and neutering.
Poor fellow, uprooted from your racing home, travel by van to another state, at home with two crazy Greyhound people and now your manhood has been taken away.
Not so happy in Nashville, Otto, now singing soprano.
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Did you at least have them install some Neuticles so he wouldn't be embarrassed about going out in public?
Bless him, my friend Colin has distributed The Pink Panther comedy movies to our House.
AFAIK, Peter Sellers, Portsmouth's finest son, after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, based his physical Comedy after Stan Laurel.
The first Pink Panther is so-so. Peter then visited Paris and encountered a French Hotel Concierge who gave him inspiration for all his achingly funny Jokes about "Beums" and all that.
Clearly he was a kid let loose in a sweet shop with beauties like Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale.
TBH, the jokes about the Arabs are a bit patronizing. But when you consider he had a Heart Pacemaker from a youngish age, he gave us everything he had.
AFAIK, Peter Sellers, Portsmouth's finest son, after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, based his physical Comedy after Stan Laurel.
The first Pink Panther is so-so. Peter then visited Paris and encountered a French Hotel Concierge who gave him inspiration for all his achingly funny Jokes about "Beums" and all that.
Clearly he was a kid let loose in a sweet shop with beauties like Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale.
TBH, the jokes about the Arabs are a bit patronizing. But when you consider he had a Heart Pacemaker from a youngish age, he gave us everything he had.
Animal Photos: Orangutan and otter families make friends - CBBC Newsround
Orangutans and otters! OOK.
Orangutans and otters! OOK.
I saw a 'shooting star' the night before last, it was so clear and fresh out, very bright moon, despite being only 2/3rds.
I have never hallucinated, no matter what I've drunk, but thought it was the wrong time of year.
As it turns out, The Lyrid Shower occurs from around now and for a week or two.
Something I never knew about, but fascinating.
I have never hallucinated, no matter what I've drunk, but thought it was the wrong time of year.
As it turns out, The Lyrid Shower occurs from around now and for a week or two.
Something I never knew about, but fascinating.
Don't the Chinese say: "May you live in interesting times."
I'm not underestimating the downside of right now. But we currently have much fresher air and clearer blue skies than I can remember recently. It's quiet. Bumblebees are bumbling about doing whatever they do. It's glorious.
People are being nice to each other. Saying "Good Morning" to strangers even in Cities.
It's just this flipping Pigeon getting on my nerves. Its eating the blossom off my plum tree.
Everybody gets excited about this tree in August. Covered in Plums. I always say to passers by: "Help Yourself".
Only time I got a bit annoyed is when one Chap wanted to know if they were "Organic". Really!
I can definitely affirm that the atmosphere from my "office" chair looks very different: clearer and cleaner then in all the years I've seen it from the air (even after 9/11).
I woke up this morning to close the windows and blinds at about 4:30, and I could see the star in the night sky at a much lower angle then I've ever seen it from those windows.
Cheers,
Greg
Time to put in a plug for the wonderful Gutenberg project ( Gutenberg ).
For those unfamiliar with the project, volunteers find books that are out of copyright (for example, any book over 100 years old), type them up, and put them online, free and unencumbered, for the benefit of the world. You can download them, or read them online. Most books are available in plain ASCII text, Epub, and HTML formats. Many are also available as audiobooks, though I personally have never downloaded an audiobook.
I've been reading a lot of wonderful books from the Gutenberg project recently, including many works by P.G. Wodehouse (who always makes me laugh), Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, and numerous books on inventions and technology from the first Industrial Revolution, as well as many books on early aircraft and aviation.
-Gnobuddy
I believe you. I've known more than one keen recreational distance cyclist who preferred old-fashioned steel frames. They are heavy, yes, but a steel fork has a little give in it, and doesn't beat you up as much as a modern ultra-stiff carbon fibre fork does.
The ultra-stiffness is an unwanted side effect of the mechanical properties of carbon fibre. To make a CF frame strong enough, the CF tubes have to be much larger-diameter than the tubes in a steel frame. Unfortunately, large-diameter tubes are also much stiffer than smaller-diameter ones, so the CF frame and forks end up punishingly stiff.
-Gnobuddy