cold

beer week

Glad to hear, in particular "It seems to help me the most to be of help to them."

I thought I was wrong once I wasn't . Its happened twice before.

A bit of channeling? Of the POTUS of course...

ouch (the pain / chain of ownership)

Down comforter

Hope you had a chance to meet with the grief counselor and got great benefits from the meeting! Either way you remain in my thoughts, and would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks

green t @ the golf course

If A learns to merge on the freeways with the help of a DVD, and the dashboard plastic statue of Jesus gives him the courage to do so, its money well spent!

good manners should rule

yardstick

Stick around, it will be evident.

LMAO!

With forage scarce the seldom seen gulls are competing with the local crows for food. They seem to favor the fast food, fries in particular. And large parking lots, with lots of empty spots. Two places I try to avoid. Maybe why that's why I don't often see them.

intrinsic delusions

Doesn't "If at first you fail try, try, try, again", apply under these circumstances?

Animal, mineral, or vegetable ?

Nothing of significance usually.

Thanks for the clarification!

Not an uncommon occurrence, in general here's about, eh?

would you?

Hope this finds you finding increasing peace and or acceptance.

The kill deer often lay their eggs among stones that resemble the eggs in size shape and color. The parent would flit out acting as if it had a broken wing or similar injury scampering with bias away from the nest when the nest was approached to closely. Then when threat to eggs was lessened the parent would take to flight again away from both the nest and the threat. The baby birds shortly after hatching and before learning to fly rely on their parents protection. The mimic the parents crazy running, almost in circles bouncing off one another. I often thought was this was inspiration for the Keystone Cops.

A favorite resident who got pressured by feral cats and local foxes to move on was is the kill deer. Nesting on the ground the parents would alternate eating and guarding the eggs or hatchlings. The parents antics were soon mimicked by the offspring. So change brings both opportunities and loss or grief.

Isn't it a human habit to label, qualify, and or classify things? Nature has two basics: First one is food. The second one is the consumer of said food. Watching the juvenile turkey vultures cleaning up road kill, they don't exhibit preferences. They just act on their instinct and eat what is available. Crows appear a little smarter following a pattern of trash removal ? The refuse cans or bags appear and the crows soon follow. Preferring plastic bags over cans with lids. As it is learned learned behavior is it also instinctual?