I’ve been so busy catching up after the New England foray, that I haven’t had a chance to update for days. When I said things would get back to normal around here, that isn’t exactly what I meant. And then there was the holiday, etc. Anyway, Tuesday always is a good reset day at arloandjanis.com. Here’s a late Labor Day-weekend cartoon from 2009. It accurately reflects how Labor Day was around here. I did get out Monday evening on a local lake after the craziness had subsided, and I saw a bald eagle. Was I ever angry! I’d just spent a lot of money and trouble to get to Maine, where I saw eagles, and here was one in my own county. I felt cheated.
103 responses to “Post Labor Day”
Ruth Anne, this shows poisonous as being synonymous with venomous.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poisonous
Jerry in FL
Florida is loaded with bald eagles and others. You just have to be alert to their presence.
Ruth Anne,
Speaking as a biologist, you got it right. Minor pet peeve of my mine…
Cheers!
Rusty
I see I’m going to have to work on my nautical terms if I’m going to crew for Jackie. If she ordered me to “Leaverify the boat!”, I wouldn’t know what to do.
Ruth Anne: Not biology but English usage. Be nice if that distinction were made, but poisonous can mean either. I prefer the distinction, because it makes for precision in writing or speaking. E.g., I prefer ‘convince’ to mean get someone to agree that something is good, bad, impractical, whatever, and ‘persuade’ to mean get someone to do or not do something.
Jerry: ‘I would love to see an eagle but I’ve never seen one.’ After DDT was banned and bald eagle populations had begun to recover, we and our kids were driving out of town on a trip and saw an adult overhead downtown. Realized that people would go 1,000 miles to see what we could see often. In ’89 [I think] we were staying with former students on Kodiak Island, AK and were out checking our hosts’ crab pots. Dozens of eagles around the inlet, on the lookout for scraps, like ring-billed gulls here in Bemidji.
There’s a webcam on a bay in ME where you can see eagles roosting and nesting on a shore that has human homes [perhaps mostly summer cottages] on it. The Decorah and north Decorah eagle nest sites are near roads and a pasture [beef cattle, maybe]. The MNDNR eagle nest is somewhere in the Twin Cities metro area. When walking across ‘Salisbury Plain’ between home and Sanford Health Bemidji, I see them occasionally. Don’t know where the nearest nests are, but would guess a few within 10-12 miles.
Peace,
I agree that the words are synonymous to most people (I just happened to be married to a nitpicker 🙂 ), plus sign makers need to go with what will get the most attention. Unfortunately the ones who are apt to be oblivious to the world around them are often the same ones who think “the only good snake is a dead snake”.
As Jerry said, you have to be alert to the presence of eagles in Florida. Once you are and get a little practice distinguishing them from vultures, osprey, etc., in flight, they’re more common than you might expect. Until their tree died a few years ago,there was a successfully breeding pair nesting in downtown Winter Park. I’ve spotted them flying over my backyard.
Your distinction between “poisonous” and “venomous” seems quite reasonable. I might go a step beyond and claim that the quality of being venomous in a subset of the quality of being poisonous in that the former indicates the means by which the latter enters the scene.
Searching what remains of my mind, I think I would have considered persuading someone as having been accomplished by, say, wheedling and cajolery, while convincing someone was done by logical reasoning. This is strictly off the top of my head, with no more thought than can be done in a few moments; may be totally wrong!
Welcome, fellow picker of nits!
Last I heard from Jackie, she was paralleling the Columbia river and looking for a truck stop with room enough to pull in for gas. By now she has probably found her hotel and gotten off the road. Hope so, anyway.
Happy trails.
My nits are
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“very” unique
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And nauseous when what is meant is nauseated.
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Closest I got to a Bald Eagle was about 50 feet. It coolly sat on a fence post
as I drove by on a tractor.
In 50s a nest was 40? feet from State Hwy in CT – Was hard to see when close
but cresting hill 1/4 mile away was quite visible.
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emb is MNDNR cam in Wabasha Eagle Center?
https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/
https://www.nationaleaglecenter.org/eagle-nest-cams/
Is one site
We used to reside in SD in the Yankton area. Right across the (Missouri) river, in very northern NE, was a favorite site for eagles. Unfortunately, the years we were there were before the rebound of the eagle population, so we never saw more than one at a time when we travelled to NE. I suppose more may have been in flight, but they were not as evident as those sitting on perches.
Debbe 😉 One of my treadmill tunes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iebu-oCTdI8
?GM Debbe
My doctor asked if any members of my family
suffered from insanity,
I replied, no, we all seem to enjoy it.
There is that question mark again
Who besides mE believes in things that are meant to be? Today I came closer to crying than I have in a year and believe me, there have been times I should have. I am lying on a bed in a Motel 6 in a tiny Washington Port town called Kalama after I walked out of my reservation in frustration. Just drove off and said I didn’t care where I ended up, I’d know when I got there. Got on I-5 to Seattle.
Not much visible so drove, pulled off road and found the one motel, clerk said put boat front of office, he’d watch.
Turns out his Newport 45 has been stolen and he was strandedicated. Very salty but that’s not the significance of the town. It’s the only town I remember Mike talking about going to and sailing the Penguin sister ship to mine.
He stayed here when it was not a Motel 6 and ate next door.
This is weird, like a movie plot. Of course I won’t be able to breath from cigarette smoke and left my clothes in truck to avoid smoke. But I am OK now and saved a lot of money if they took upscale off.
Ghost you don’t need to talk nautical, nauti will be fine.
Besides I have that third floor waterfront suite for a week. I hate to waste the totally tasteless decor. Great bath and balcony but I confess I laughed hysterically first time I saw decor. I got used to it, loved quiet and birds, waves, stayed weeks alone.
Good morning Villagers…
…and a good morning to you Old Bear
Same old chicken $hit, but different day 🙂
Jerry, enjoy your trip, and be safe.
Jackie, think about you every day while packing…..one brave woman.
Indy Mindy, got to rereading your job description you wrote on a hen house employee some time back….I still get a good laugh every time I read it. If you don’t remember it I will bring it home and retype it here.
So, is it a hump day, or not?
Thank you for the blessings Doumacan
Llee, that was a good one that I had missed…thanks
Sandcastler, so is Loon’s toe getting better?
later…
GR 😉 just can’t get enough of her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pywkt4aTgXk&list=RDPywkt4aTgXk
..so this could be my problem 🙂
http://cheezburger.com/8972647168
this is one scary cat….
http://cheezburger.com/8972481536
Blinky, I will definitely give you George Martin. He was very responsible for their sound.
I love going through the Smithsonian museums, especially the Air and Space ones. My son lived near Dulles and they converted a hanger there for another museum that focuses on aircraft. I also enjoy the fact that they are free too.
Morning villagers.
Google ads strike. The curious mind of Janis’ Googles a fact and gets hijacked by an online ad.
Today’s TIP is stupid, but today’s Herman is good.
http://www.gocomics.com/herman
Unger died in 2012, but someone is doing it and it seems to have changed little.
Peace,