Note Arlo’s hands in the last two panels of the 2011 comic above. It is very easy, when drawing hands, to get it all backwards, especially when the hands are in dynamic positions. Because of this, I often sit at my drawing board and flail my arms about my head and back, envisioning where my fingers end up. It’s a very good thing cartooning is a solitary art. Well, spring as arrived, although it might come as a surprise to our friends in the Midwest and the Northeast. Spring arrived in parts of the South in typical fashion: accompanied by hail and tornadoes. I apologize for not posting much lately, but I hope you’ll take my word for it that it was an exceptionally busy winter around here. I’ve been pulled in many directions the past couple of months, and I don’t take that well. I’m a tunnel-vision kind of guy who focuses on one task to the detriment of others. And don’t we all have more than one task? Anyway, we’re not going out of business here, evidence to the contrary.
177 responses to “‘A little bird rolled me.’”
Chesapeake ospreys are back. Outfit clears the nest platform each fall; this nest is new. No eggs yet.
https://explore.org/livecams/chesapeake-conservancy/osprey-cam-chesapeake-conservancy
Peace,
Reticulated giraffe [male?], guenons in background.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/african-animal-lookout-camera
Peace,
More likely that giraffe was female / horn tips.
http://giraffe344.blogspot.com/2012/04/differences-between-males-and-females.html
Peace,
TESS will launch soon! Be sure to watch the video explaining it…
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46289628&nid=1012&title=meet-tess-the-satellite-that-will-find-thousands-of-planets
Interesting comments from wait-staff.
http://www.startribune.com/what-your-restaurant-waitstaff-really-thinks-about-you/478209903/
Peace,
Trucker: Thanks, Let’s pray that Tess achieves its intended orbit, and that everything works as planned. Tess will not be accessible for tinkering, as Hubble was.
Still grateful that so much has been learned in my lifetime. Decades back, never dreamed that we’d know diddly re exoplanets. Nor, of course, that we’d know as much re cosmology as Steve Hawking has shown, and that Carl, the other Steve, Sarah, and oodles of paleontologists, cosmologists, microbiologists, primatologists, and others have learned about the world into which Darwin and Wallace led us a century and a half ago. I think Elohim approves. Best stop there.
Peace,
Everyone’s gone. The Rapture must have occurred. You might know I’d be the only one left. Peace?
You’re not alone, emb 🙂
Just busy at work… NOT! I had a group of 20 dental assistant students come in for a quiz, and 3 others come in for other tests. Just another hour to go before I’m off for the weekend.
Just finished work. Now for lunch. And probably some grocery shopping.
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That Herman strip reminds me of this:
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46290357&nid=1017
which is about a cheetah that was seen chilling and just casually looking around while hanging onto a seat in a Land Cruiser. The human occupants handled it better than I would have!
TruckerRon, that video reminded me of this earlier one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uwB6K5XvQg
In this case, I think the cheetah wanted the highest point he could get to, with no trees near. Notice how he keeps looking around but not really paying attention to the people.
Cats are cats, no matter the size!
Re 03/30
It is almost impossible to get Lamb around here despite
a dozen(?) sheep farms within 30 miles. The best I can do is
1 lb pk of frozen ground.
28 for high tomorrow = might get an inch of snow we are on the edge.
emb 3-5 or 5-8.
We are scheduled for lamb shanks, VERY cooked, on Sunday. Have no idea of the cost, but I suspect a few merchants/employees can now retire.
Lions and tigers, oh my. Perhaps the Village hears the rumble of the drums and fled?
Ghost and I are frockin’ busy with the boutique.
Our Easter egg hunt and sale has been huge success. Today is second day.
Ghost appeared in full color full face on front page of the Eufaula Indian Journal newspaper this week. They did a two page article on us. Very positive.
We begin remodelling the second shop today ripping out hideous shelves and displays put in by only prior tenant. No goid thoughts for her. She deserved to fail!
Ghost joined the Girls Night Out group last night for wine and dine. First male to attend. They may let him join.
Jimmy, today’s was sweet and funny and….super.
Jackie! Glad things are going so well for you 🙂
And Jimmy’s coloring added to the overall effect. Very good.
OB: We got just a trace, noted on the bare patches of lawn. Probably more to the W and S. We’ve had a cold week, no highs above 0 C. Thaw due Mon, it says.
c x-p: Well done lamb: we learned to cook lamb rare, pace’ Betty Crocker. Will do a search for an excerpt from my earliest [sort of] Bemidji Pioneer column.
Peace,
Here ’tis, publ. Sept. ’98, slightly editied.
… Also (didn’t realize this then), trying new foods became an acceptable form of youthful rebellion. Mom wanted me to be less finicky, but at the same time would often caution that I might not like something that was strange to her. So I tried stuff to bug Mom.
Dad was more laid back in this regard, and so was Dr. G. I think he liked to get me to try stuff that Mom would have doubts about. He was the one who taught me about cheddar and raw onion pumpernickel sandwiches, in his kitchen while Mom and Aunt Edna were within earshot. I decided on my own to have Liederkranz and crackers for dessert, at Helen Lane’s [’30s-’40s restaurant, on Wavery Pl., Greenwich Village]. (Liederkranz was a soft-ripened cheese, something like Brie or Camembert, that Borden’s used to make.) “emb, that’s pretty strong; are you sure you will like it?” That made me sure; after all, if it was Borden’s, it had to be good.
At Keen’s English Chop House, also in Manhattan, I once ordered mutton chops. “Evan, mutton is a good deal stronger than lamb, you know.” The waiter asked, “How do you want them done?” Well, I didn’t know one had a choice with mutton or lamb, but I knew I liked beef rare. “Rare!” Revelation, at age 15 or so! In the ’50s and ’60s, Betty Crocker (Ann Page’s sister) allowed only medium and well-done lamb; mutton is not indexed in “her” cookbooks. Now, Elaine and I always do lamb or mutton rare or medium rare. …
Peace,
Great Spirit Bluff peregrine nestbox. One egg, laid w/in last 48 hr., I think.
https://explore.org/livecams/raptor-resource-project/peregrine-falcon-cam
Peace,
Certainly would not be the first previously all-female organization of which I have become the first male member.
Sitting on the bench in front of Steals watching the Saturday morning traffic pass by. There are apparently many helmet-less motorcyclists in Oklahoma. My EMS ambulance crewmember friends back in the Deep South refer to them as “organ donars”.
Ghost, I had a friend in Birmingham who worked for an organ collection service. They referred to them as donorcycles.
The machine, not the people.
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